Watson claims that there has been no racist backlash against the
Makahs and other Native people. This is an outright lie and Watson
knows it.
All the racist death threats, the bomb threat against Chief Leschi
School, the placing bumper stickers on cars on Puyallup land that read
"Save A Whale, Kill An Indian", the banner at the PAWS rally that said
"Save a Whale, Harpoon a Makah", the attempt to run off the road the
Puyallup canoe team and the refusal of some white business in in Port
Angeles to serve Native people were all covered by the mainstream
media. In the letters to the editor of many papers were found numerous
racist letters, on radio talk shows you heard such things as "white
people should renew their tradition of killing Indians" and another
person asking where he could get a license to shoot Indians, these are
just two examples.
And then there were the acts of violence against Native people. Those
of us who live up here all know of the racist backlash and we also
know who was in the forefront arousing it, Paul Watson. I heard him
state on tv that "if the Makahs take a whale then all Indian People
will suffer".
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"Monica" <yan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Watson claims ... and Watson knows ... we also know who