Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Ventura
County,
California:
The all-white Jury’s verdict was that Los Angeles
Police Officers were “not guilty” of beating Rodney King—even when a
videotape
showed six officers clubbing and kicking Mr. King, and a dozen more
police
standing by, enjoying the violence. The
case had been moved from racially-mixed Los Angeles into an all-White
neighborhood, and the jurors had no choice in their verdict. In coming to the verdict, the Jury said that
Rodney King deserved the beating because he “wouldn’t hold still,” even
when he
was handcuffed, he wouldn’t hold still.
He was still trying to get away.
The
Ventura County Jury’s verdict was the catalyst for
rioting in Los Angeles. On the day
after the riots began, page 9A of the Minneapolis Star Tribune shows a
picture
of a White man being beaten and kicked by three black men.
He’s not holding still, either. He’s
trying to get away; he’s trying to escape
the beating. Unless he’s into S &
M, he’s not enjoying being kicked and hit.
The
question is, the White man always states, “it’s the
law.” He neglects to state that it’s
the racist White law that they’re enforcing; that they become judge,
jury and
executioner under White law, and then the man has to go to court again
and face
another set of judge, jury, and executioners under the law, interpreted
meaning
the “White law.”
In
the aftermath of the rioting and the burning and the
looting in Los Angeles, the destruction of the neighborhoods where
people live,
was a message sent. So, what happens
now, is a whole flock of carpet-baggers appear on the scene, the main
one
coming from the White House. He wants
to hire more policemen, buy more weapons for the police, bring in the
National
Guard ... With his New World Order, he
might as well put barbed wire around the ghetto.
The
carpetbaggers, profiteers and other exploiters come in
all shapes, forms and colors. There is
a whole hierarchy of them: the instant social workers, the clergy, the
singers
who come on with protest songs, the reform politicians and the
sloganeers—they
are all taking something from the community and not putting anything
back. That’s what a “carpetbagger” is. We the Anishinabe Ojibway people should be
very familiar with the varieties of carpetbagger—we’ve had
carpetbaggers packed
onto our land by the B.I.A. (a carpetbagging bureaucracy) for 150 years. They have taken everything out and have
never put anything back, except poverty.
They have tried to destroy the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’
infrastructure. The Europeans, who
control the “Indian enrollments,” and who named and own “Indians,” have
been
putting carpetbaggers onto the Red Lake enrollments ever since they
signed the
fake Chip-away Treaties. Now, the
majority of “enrolled Red Lake Indians,” who are really Metis and are
not
Aboriginal Indigenous People, are the descendants of these
carpetbaggers—as
planned. But, these people are not
indigenous here. Some of them do not
have any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors at all. They
are not Anishinabe Ojibway People with a Clan or a Dodem.
Columbus
was the first European carpetbagger recorded by
history to have come here. These
Europeans have been carpetbagging ever since.
The
United States of America was founded by joint-stock
business Companies (for example the Virginia Company) specifically for
the
purpose of exploiting Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ resources, and
stealing. The Europeans exported their
values, both the pillars and the “dregs” of their society, and they
brought
their social problems with them. That’s
why they build all of their prisons.
European society is based on violence; the riots in Los Angeles
are a
product of their social problems. No
self-respecting people can create an economic system based on
drug-dealing,
bootlegging, (bingo) and gambling.
That’s no economic system at all.
There needs to be something different in those communities, and
in this
community.
After
blaming the riots in Los Angeles on “the Sixties,” the
next thing they’ll do is bring in the carpetbaggers, like they did in
the
Sixties, to rip off the community. They
will pass carpet-bagging legislation, they will enrich carpet-bagging
politicians, and nothing will change for the people who live in the
community. There will be artists and
singers and poets,
all exploiting the situation, and the only thing that they put back
into the
community is more poverty.
It’s
the same thing that they are doing on Red Lake with the
forestry products. They have been
taking everything out of here for more than a hundred years, and have
never put
anything back. They say, “we’re
planting trees,” but no matter how many trees are planted, it doesn’t
restore
the ecosystem, nor replace what was taken out of here.
In the end, what they will say is, “we own
these trees, we planted them,” after they have stolen the ancient
giants of our
land. The are planting Potemkin Forests
along the highways, and everything is clearcut behind the narrow band
of
trees. More carpetbagging.
Next
Issue:
While doing the
history and genealogy of Red Lake, we have
found out that under Article 7 of the 1864 Amendment to the fake Treaty
that
the “Indians” and Metis signed, Halfbreeds (all of whom have a White
father,
and no Clan nor Dodem) got Scrip for 160 acres of land.
As we dig through the reams of documents
that we’ve finally been able to get our hands on, we’ll report from
time to
time in this column. Colonialism
depends on carpetbaggers and rip-off artists!
Wub-e-keniew
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