Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People) |
Quotas,
such as Affirmative Action, equal opportunity, and
Indian Preference are all racism. These
programs are not designed by minorities; they are preferential policies
designed by White men to maintain their racist structure.
They are stopgap measures that seem to work
for about a generation, hide the real problems, and divert the pressure
for
change. Because of the “generation gap”
it becomes a perpetual motion machine, with the same problems coming
back over
and over again. The “White
Liberals” and the “Far Right” are both
protecting the same privileges in the White Paternalistic society. The elite only needs a certain number of
henches and hacks, and dehumanized people who are cannon fodder, cheap
labor,
and the homeless are just as necessary to the maintain the structure. Why aren’t there helicopters dropping food
and the Red Cross helping the homeless here?
Some of the U.S. ghettos look like they were bombed out, but
there
wasn’t any United Nations Resolution behind “Urban Renewal,” which is
another
racist White linear-thinking social program.
These programs all have White Backlash built into them;
blame the
victim—they were designed that way.
There
are alternatives to these programs. The
alternatives have to designed, owned,
and controlled by the people that they benefit. Affirmative
Action, and other preferential policies only change
which of the subordinate classes get slightly better jobs; not who owns
and
controls the economic system. We can go
for ten thousand years of “Indian Employment Programs” designed by
Whites, and
it won’t solve the problems. The
solutions created by the White community are racist.
Why send all Whites to the Reservation to work, and send all the
Indians to Bemidji to work? That’s
dumb, like school-integration bussing, which was intended to sell
busses and
gasoline and “create employment,” not to provide a good education for
Minority
children.
The
way the system is set up, the “recognized Community
Leaders” of any Minority community are controlled by the White
community (in
their back pocket or purse). For years, they have been talking about
“economic
development at Red Lake.” But these
White-appointed “Community Leaders” all develop paralysis when it comes
to
actually developing a program that employs anybody but Whites (and
maybe a few
of their relatives in “token jobs”).
It’s a lot easier to sit on your fat ass and be a rubber stamp,
than
actually have to go work, or even think for yourself.
Just recently the 1934 I.R.A. Council signed a “Government to
Government” agreement with Beltrami County for welfare and social
services. $900,000 dollars (almost none
of it County money) goes to A.F.D.C. grants—which are spent in Bemidji. $4,100,000 goes to administer the program,
for “program costs” which go directly to the White community.
Hollywood,
anthropologists, and other Technocrat P.R.
flunkies have labelled the Indian community as “socialist” and
“primitive
Communist.” These con artists, who are
Capitalists posing as Socialists, have the rip-off built right into the Indian (and other Minority) “social
programs” on all levels. Capitalism ripping off Socialism.
None of the programs come from the community
that they are supposed to “help,” and they are not owned by it; they
are owned
by the State (and so is Bingo, gambling, and the school system).
The
reality is that the State of Minnesota, and other White
States including Christiandom, have always held the Indian’s
Sovereignty.
“Indian” is an identity created by the White man. This
is written into racist hierarchial law in—among other
places—Title 25 of the United States Code, Section 479, “For the
purposes of
this Act, Eskimos and other aboriginal peoples ... shall be considered Indian.”
“Indian”
is a fantasy definition. The people in
India are Tamils and Sikhs and hundreds of other
ethnic groups. “Indian” according to
the first definition in the dictionary is a category used by the
British to
oppress these people of South Asia.
According to the second definition, “Indians” are White British
men who have lived in India; it doesn’t say so in the dictionary but
apparently
“Indian” also includes the descendents of French Voyageurs who got
caught
between the British-Canadian and British-American armies and herded
into the
concentration camps called “reservations” along with the Aboriginal
Indigenous
People.
In
the 1860 Census of Minnesota, racist strategies were used
to disenfranchise these French Voyageurs; later they became “Indians”
and are
still disenfranchised by, for example, the Beltrami County Board’s
gerrymander
line right through Red Lake Reservation.
Red Lake Reservation has about half the population that Bemidji
does—there should have been a Beltrami County Commissioner from Red
Lake a long
time ago, as long as they want to put County Line signs up on our land.
Jim
Crow and Affirmative Action are two facets of the same
ugly thing—they are linear lies in Crooked English which have the sole
purpose
of keeping the people who have power, in power. From
an Anishinabe Ojibway perspective, this “power” relationship
is a parasite living off of a host. Jim
Crow/Affirmative Action is part of the economic system; this economic
system is
a necessary part of the Utopia that the privileged few already
have. Crooked English has many words
and many definitions. It’s slick and
slippery. The names change, the
definitions change, outward appearances change—but the same thieving
thought is
here, there, and the underlying structure hasn’t changed for centuries.
When
Moses was on his way down from the Mountain, he dropped
at least one Stone Tablet and broke it.
“Thou Shalt Not Lie;” “Thou Shalt Not Be Greedy;” “Thou Shalt
Live In
Harmony With Creation;” “Thou Shalt Not Foul And Pollute Anybody’s
Nest” and
“Thou Shalt Respect All Of Creation” never made it down the mountain. What goes around, comes around, and what
turns, returns. It’s
our turn to study the Indo-Europeans,
his value system and his religion, and what his sicknesses of greed,
violence,
and linear dishonesty have done to the world.
Civilization has to return to this continent again.
Wub-e-ke-niew
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