How dare you blame us for the poison you fed
How dare you criticize us for the direction you led
How dare you not make any attempt to save us
From all this agony and hardship you gave us
How dare you give poisons to sons and daughters
How dare you justify the death sweep of our slaughter
How dare you teach our seeds about violence and greed
Yet fail to give them what they need in order to succeed
You can claim innocence and blame us if you care to
Lie if you must, as I reply with disgust
I dare you
That Native Americans have an extraordinarily high susceptibility to alcoholism, conservatively above 80 percent of those who drink, in itself is an unfortunate fact, like the fact that some groups can't digest milk from cows (except that milk has high nutritional value and the ability to digest it might with more justification be construed to have survival value). Their high alcoholism susceptibility was immediately evident while they still owned the country as a proud, brave, highly developed people and the white man was still a tiny minority along the eastern seaboard. Thus their severe alcoholism problem is not caused by a native inability to cope with discrimination, or poverty, unemployment, or battered self-respect, as virtually every news story deploringly implies. It is their genetic alcoholism that has exacerbated all of these problems and destroyed their ability to surmount them.
Again, it is iatrogenic circularity that has disfranchised them, laid the insanity of alcoholism on their character and culture, added egregious insult to already fatal disease, and converted this limitation--otherwise manageable through abstinence--into a genocidal disaster. Incredibly, mental health specialists would now have us believe that this profound inversion of reality should be the prototype for the treatment of the many other "victim" groups.
Thus we are advised that addiction treatment should focus on the special "underlying" problems of being a woman, an African-American, a Chicano, a homosexual, a victim of sexual abuse, or whatever. Nothing could be more destructive. On the contrary, first restore them to sanity and selfhood through thorough addiction treatment, emphasizing the commonalties with other addicts. Only then can they be helped to realistically address and cope with their special social and personal problems.
Another set of studies has examined alcohol elimination in certain ethnic groups (e.g., Native Americans) (Okada & Mizoi, 1982; Tsukamoto, Sudo, Karasawa, Kajiwara, & Endo, 1982). The hypothesis here is that rates of alcoholism among an ethnic group are determined by an inborn reaction to ethanol, called a "flushing response." Members of some groups tend to flush (reddening of the face, warm sensations, dizziness) when they drink because they are relatively deficient in ALDH. As a result of this deficiency, acetaldehyde is metabolized more slowly, allowing the toxic substance to accumulate in body fluids (and cause flushing).
Sources: The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Guilford Publications, Inc
How dare you criticize us for the direction you led
How dare you not make any attempt to save us
From all this agony and hardship you gave us
How dare you give poisons to sons and daughters
How dare you justify the death sweep of our slaughter
How dare you teach our seeds about violence and greed
Yet fail to give them what they need in order to succeed
You can claim innocence and blame us if you care to
Lie if you must, as I reply with disgust
I dare you
That Native Americans have an extraordinarily high susceptibility to alcoholism, conservatively above 80 percent of those who drink, in itself is an unfortunate fact, like the fact that some groups can't digest milk from cows (except that milk has high nutritional value and the ability to digest it might with more justification be construed to have survival value). Their high alcoholism susceptibility was immediately evident while they still owned the country as a proud, brave, highly developed people and the white man was still a tiny minority along the eastern seaboard. Thus their severe alcoholism problem is not caused by a native inability to cope with discrimination, or poverty, unemployment, or battered self-respect, as virtually every news story deploringly implies. It is their genetic alcoholism that has exacerbated all of these problems and destroyed their ability to surmount them.
Again, it is iatrogenic circularity that has disfranchised them, laid the insanity of alcoholism on their character and culture, added egregious insult to already fatal disease, and converted this limitation--otherwise manageable through abstinence--into a genocidal disaster. Incredibly, mental health specialists would now have us believe that this profound inversion of reality should be the prototype for the treatment of the many other "victim" groups.
Thus we are advised that addiction treatment should focus on the special "underlying" problems of being a woman, an African-American, a Chicano, a homosexual, a victim of sexual abuse, or whatever. Nothing could be more destructive. On the contrary, first restore them to sanity and selfhood through thorough addiction treatment, emphasizing the commonalties with other addicts. Only then can they be helped to realistically address and cope with their special social and personal problems.
Another set of studies has examined alcohol elimination in certain ethnic groups (e.g., Native Americans) (Okada & Mizoi, 1982; Tsukamoto, Sudo, Karasawa, Kajiwara, & Endo, 1982). The hypothesis here is that rates of alcoholism among an ethnic group are determined by an inborn reaction to ethanol, called a "flushing response." Members of some groups tend to flush (reddening of the face, warm sensations, dizziness) when they drink because they are relatively deficient in ALDH. As a result of this deficiency, acetaldehyde is metabolized more slowly, allowing the toxic substance to accumulate in body fluids (and cause flushing).
Sources: The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Guilford Publications, Inc
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a little bragging, pardon my cockiness
it wasn't on a test
i got a 99 IN THE CLASS BITCHES