kolanuraven
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It is called the Declaration of Independence. It begins with “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” Of course the people responsible for writing that document at the time (1776) were all were immigrants from Europe, and were all descendents of the Anglo and Saxon, Caucasian race. No American Indian, Hispanic, No African American, No Japanese American, etc. but more profoundly, No Women.
Under the Lie Slavery flourished, Race and gender discriminating was acceptable. The war against the Indigenous tribes of the new America continued. The late 1700’s brought the Articles of war into being, stating that women Children and the elderly would be protected from attack in the event of war. That did not stop John Sevier, and the Blount’s, of Tennessee, from raiding Indian villages and massacring whole villages while their warriors were away fighting for the U.S. military.
If you were not of the white race you had no civil rights, even after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, until The 1964 Civil rights Act was passed. Even then the Congress of the United States would not allow the American Indian to be included. These Indian, would not be allowed to enjoy all of the freedoms the Civil Rights Act endowed on all other races. We were subjected to the special “ Indian Civil rights Act “
That should be called the shame of this Nation. Under that Act, a white Non-Indian BIA teacher came here and molested 14 Indian Children. He got off scot free because there is no law against a White man molesting our Indian Children.
Then there began the adoption of Self Governance Acts. Those Acts carry all of their flowery language of professing to allow the Indian Tribes to govern themselves. It looks pretty on Paper but has had a devastating effect on Indian Tribes. What it really did was to give the Congress an out from their fiduciary trust responsibility to Indian Tribes and allow organized Crime and GOP lobbyist to establish Indian gaming on reservations without a vote of tribal members. It has allowed political influence peddling and politics to recruit corrupt official who stay in office and run corrupt governments subjecting the tribal members to suit their whims. Under these Acts< John McCain served on the Senate sub-committee on Indian affairs. He played prominent role in the drafting rules and regulations of the Gaming industry. When he opened up an investigation on the corruption of Indian Gaming and found out that it was a product of the GOP’s lobbyists who were involved he was gone like wildfire.
The game plan of the GOP and their so called beliefs of equality for all men were cleverly circumvented by forming classes of people and calling them the minority, the old divide and conquer tactic. No where was that tactic more noticeable that at the GOP Convention. All we saw was a sea of White faces. There were 37 Black people there somewhere, down from 133 four years ago. From the news media description of the VP choice address everyone saw something different. This is what I saw, a young woman with a family who apparently chose at a young age to become a wife, mother, “Hockey Mom”. Once she got a taste of politics that choice changed to being a politician. Her responsibility to family was relegated to her husband and older children. She described the only difference in a hockey mom and a Pit Bull being lipstick. I agree in her instance. She came off to me as being racist, demeaning the character of anyone who isn’t white, and her remarks were sarcastic and flippant. Her Claims of change in political stature were unsubstantiated.
She made remarks about Hillary Clinton, She is no Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, has earned every thing that she claims a right to. She has been through the trenches and undergone the stress of being a woman in a Male world, and risen above it all nothing was handed to her on a silver platter. She made the mistake of going to disgruntled white Republicans for support and it ended up costing her the nomination for president. Again she has risen above the issue and is supporting the democratic nominee. Governor Palin, on the Other hand got her 15 minutes because she is Governor of Alaska, the state with all that oil. The gleam in John McCain’s eye is not because of the pretty young housewife, governor, but because he sees the control of all that oil going to the Grand Old Party’s big oil conglomerates. The choices this VP choice will make will depend on whatever suit her fancy at the moment. God forbid she should ever be put into the position of president.
Under the Lie Slavery flourished, Race and gender discriminating was acceptable. The war against the Indigenous tribes of the new America continued. The late 1700’s brought the Articles of war into being, stating that women Children and the elderly would be protected from attack in the event of war. That did not stop John Sevier, and the Blount’s, of Tennessee, from raiding Indian villages and massacring whole villages while their warriors were away fighting for the U.S. military.
If you were not of the white race you had no civil rights, even after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, until The 1964 Civil rights Act was passed. Even then the Congress of the United States would not allow the American Indian to be included. These Indian, would not be allowed to enjoy all of the freedoms the Civil Rights Act endowed on all other races. We were subjected to the special “ Indian Civil rights Act “
That should be called the shame of this Nation. Under that Act, a white Non-Indian BIA teacher came here and molested 14 Indian Children. He got off scot free because there is no law against a White man molesting our Indian Children.
Then there began the adoption of Self Governance Acts. Those Acts carry all of their flowery language of professing to allow the Indian Tribes to govern themselves. It looks pretty on Paper but has had a devastating effect on Indian Tribes. What it really did was to give the Congress an out from their fiduciary trust responsibility to Indian Tribes and allow organized Crime and GOP lobbyist to establish Indian gaming on reservations without a vote of tribal members. It has allowed political influence peddling and politics to recruit corrupt official who stay in office and run corrupt governments subjecting the tribal members to suit their whims. Under these Acts< John McCain served on the Senate sub-committee on Indian affairs. He played prominent role in the drafting rules and regulations of the Gaming industry. When he opened up an investigation on the corruption of Indian Gaming and found out that it was a product of the GOP’s lobbyists who were involved he was gone like wildfire.
The game plan of the GOP and their so called beliefs of equality for all men were cleverly circumvented by forming classes of people and calling them the minority, the old divide and conquer tactic. No where was that tactic more noticeable that at the GOP Convention. All we saw was a sea of White faces. There were 37 Black people there somewhere, down from 133 four years ago. From the news media description of the VP choice address everyone saw something different. This is what I saw, a young woman with a family who apparently chose at a young age to become a wife, mother, “Hockey Mom”. Once she got a taste of politics that choice changed to being a politician. Her responsibility to family was relegated to her husband and older children. She described the only difference in a hockey mom and a Pit Bull being lipstick. I agree in her instance. She came off to me as being racist, demeaning the character of anyone who isn’t white, and her remarks were sarcastic and flippant. Her Claims of change in political stature were unsubstantiated.
She made remarks about Hillary Clinton, She is no Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, has earned every thing that she claims a right to. She has been through the trenches and undergone the stress of being a woman in a Male world, and risen above it all nothing was handed to her on a silver platter. She made the mistake of going to disgruntled white Republicans for support and it ended up costing her the nomination for president. Again she has risen above the issue and is supporting the democratic nominee. Governor Palin, on the Other hand got her 15 minutes because she is Governor of Alaska, the state with all that oil. The gleam in John McCain’s eye is not because of the pretty young housewife, governor, but because he sees the control of all that oil going to the Grand Old Party’s big oil conglomerates. The choices this VP choice will make will depend on whatever suit her fancy at the moment. God forbid she should ever be put into the position of president.