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Years ago I worked in the middle of an Indian reservation on an Anglo farm/ranch. There were hundreds of these and few employed Native Americans. Years later I went back and worked close the reservation, but not on it. There was one major company (Fortune 500) within a hundred miles and the situation had not changed. It hired practically no Native Americans. I thought the company played a role in the underemployment of the Native Americans, but maybe it was because they had according to the sights of some, a sort of a red color to them.

 

Help me out here, so much is implied in one's color, I think we are missing out on what the German's could not prove about this idea of "race." What are we talking about here? Maybe my email-writer, if he/she reads this, can be a little more specific, like what colors are we referring to, the "black black," sort of black, or black, red and brown combined, maybe it's my color, the color that caused some people to refer to me as a "dago," when I was out west serving in the Air Force.

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Joe Carvalko is an American author and lawyer born in Bridgeport, CT. His recent novel, We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from a Cold War (Sunbury Press, 2013) was inspired by a trial he conducted that was featured in a 2004 documentary Missing, (more...)
 

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