Cycles Of Irony

Hanging out tonight with Sarah^2, short Sarah mentioned her friends who live on the reservation in Arizona, and how little they're looking forward to being forced to prove their citizenship on a regular basis.

The irony of Native Americans being forced to prove their "immigration status" is a bit much.

In late 2008, I was fortunate to hear a presentation by Richard Rodriguez at the University of Indianapolis titled "The Hispanic Immigrant in American Culture". The most memorable point of his lecture for me was the fact that history is a circle; specifically, that the Mexicans who are "invading" the southwestern US are largely descended from the Native Americans that we drove out of the southwestern US.

They could have been our brothers, but we evicted them from their homes. Perhaps this time we can learn to live together.

I'm not holding my breath.