Ah, yes, my friend...but having been involved directly in the championing of Native American values from my teens right through to my mid-50's, I have now seen both sides of the coin. I have seen the utter chauvinism of the many (the complacent White majority) and the utter chauvinism of the few (some of those posturing on the "Good Red Road", stabbing each other in the back while so doing, besotted with their sense of their own moral superiority, and forever finding someone else out there to blame for their eternal sense of "victimhood" instead of taking some personal responsibility and just growing up).

No, I am no longer impressed by professional one-issue martyrs and idealogues who can't shake off their obsession with their own narrow cultural or racial identity stamp and who can't get over their collective past. Uh-uh. It took several decades of idealistic struggle on their behalf, but my patience has run out.

And I do not feel impelled to earn my good "liberal" credentials by always making the appropriate supportive noises for them on cue. I'm liberal, yes, to a considerable degree, but I am not Pavlov's dog.

There is no side in this world, and no group in this world who are always automatically right, just on account of who they are or what was done to them in the past.