theme thursday = chair

In my job, I am able to see as I scan, books

that have been once read and long forgotten.

Lately, I'm looking at some genealogy books

from Tennessee, with people moving from and

to all the surrounding states in the usa.

Yesterday I saw a passage that caught my

eye that I had to go back to re-read.
This person had some land, with slaves in

the early 1800s. In their family was a
relative who appeared to be Native American.

What was said went something like this:

"Cousin (blank) has features of the indian kind.

He is quiet, rarely speaks and says "ugh, ugh"

many times."

Although we appear to have outgrown

that attitude, from the chairs of our

homes, many continue to look at others

in the same way.

Which leads me to this:

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian

as they treat each other,

then we will have no more wars.

We shall all be alike, brothers of

one father and one another,

with one sky above us and

one country around us,

and one governmnet for all.”

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Stereotypes are just wrong,

no matter what chair you sit in:

Have you seen this?

Instruction Manual For Life