There Are No Miracles Here

Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’

What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

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Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via cultureofresistance)

How many fucking times did I/we hear this as a child?

(via shannonnagig)

my father (European by birth) said this to me hundreds of times.

(via jewelweed)
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