Let's discuss... Native American racism!

[sleepy_sheep683]

 Hi all,

I'm opening up a dialogue about this for fairly selfish reasons- my beta-reader has been going over one of the later chapters of my fanfic and is of the opinion that the racism aspect is potentially overshadowing the story.

There are indeed quite a few references in my story to tensions between Forks and La Push reservation, the tribe

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[awe_0]

This is an excerpt from the book that might help you:

"SEVENTH GRADE

I leaned through the basement window of the HUD house and kissed the white girl who would later be raped by her foster-parent father, who was also white. They both lived on the reservation, though, and when the headlines and stories filled the papers later, not one word was made of their color.

Just Indians being Indians, someone must have said somewhere and they wrong.

But on the day I leaned through the basement window of the HUD house and kissed the white girl, I felt the good-byes I was saying to my entire tribe. I help my lips tight against her lips, a dry, clumsy, and ultimately stupid kiss.

But I was saying good-bye to my tribe, to all the Indian girls and women I might have loved, to all the Indian men who might have called me cousin, even brother.

I kissed that white girl and when I opened my eyes, she was gone from the reservation, and when I opened my eyes, I was gone from the reservation, living in a farm town where a beautiful white girl asked my name.

"Junior Polatkin," I said, and she laughed.

After that, no one spoke to me another five hundred years. "

He has his own style and it can be a bit difficult to figure out everything he's talking about without the help of the rest of the book, but I think this excerpt was pretty self explanatory...
Hope it helps :)

Re: Also...

[awe_0]

*Held not help.

*Just Indians being Indians, someone must have said somewhere and they *were* wrong.

Sorry!