[katana]

Speaking as someone who actually can trace his ancestry on his father's side to a specific 19th century member of the Cherokee Tribe: Chief Baker should lighten up and Ms. Warren should kiss my a**.

[mrsmel]

I say if the rule is that no one but a member of a group can speak for, gesture for, or in any way represent that group, then the same should hold true for whites. Right now we are the only group as a race for whom every other group can tell is what our words really mean, what we're really thinking, etc. Everyone gets to tell us what we said and we what we meant, and they do parse it fine.