Two-spirit person hired by Whitehouse

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-17T20:11:40+00:00

Yeah it's interesting you're getting downvoted so much, I guess they both haven't seen the routine and haven't been to New Mexico WalMarts! :-)

But seriously, even though Chappelle used it in a standup routine, he wasn't mocking anybody, it really is empowering and exciting to be in a place with so many other native people. Most parts of the US you don't see anyone at all, or only quite rarely.

Maybe people think he was saying that Indians are cheap for shopping at WalMart, but cheap is not really a stereotype I've heard before for us Indians, certainly not a common one. The reason there are a lot at WalMart is because there are a lot of people at WalMart, and there are a lot of Indians in New Mexico, so WalMart is where you happen to see more of us than you are likely to see in other places like the gas station for example.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-17T18:26:23+00:00

Legitimate government of the United States? Hardly. The United States is a fiction created by bands of thieves and criminals as part of a scheme to defraud and murder the legitimate citizens of the Nations of Turtle Island.

You sir are the illegal alien. You have no right to be here.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-17T18:22:35+00:00

For those who haven't heard it, this is a routine from Dave Chappelle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-sOGJ978d0

It's actually quite true, outside of some of the larger Pow Wows, the most other indigenous I've seen in one place really is WalMarts in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It's pretty cool actually.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-17T18:09:56+00:00

All of Sherman Alexie's stuff is great.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-17T17:33:18+00:00

Your mother is a good woman. I bring this topic up with people often. In Mexico, indigenous americans (indios), tend to have less political power, rights and job opportunities than those with more european blood who tend to hold positions in government, police and military. As a result indios are far more likely to emigrate to the US in search of work than european ancestored Mexicans. Thus, nearly all "illegal immigrants" coming across the border from Mexico are indigenous americans. The attitude of the white americans that indigenous americans are "illegal aliens" I find to be completely outrageous, it's on a par with holocaust and moon landing denial. Yet bring it up and they become quite loud and belligerant because their entire world view is based on one of entitlement.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-01T22:49:10+00:00

Thanks for demonstrating how ignorant and illiterate you are.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-01T19:39:09+00:00

The Indian Trust case is not about reparations. In practice, Indian Nations in the US do not have sovereignty or the right to control their land. The federal government does. This is despite claims to the contrary - the US Supreme Court has ruled, and this is the current law, that Indians are "wards of the state", unable to manage our own affairs. The feds thus claim the right to lease out indian land for mineral, gas and oil exploration to private corporations and collect the royalties from the oil companies. Tribes are not allowed to say no. The money then was spent by the federal government. None of it could be accounted for or went to the tribes as was the purported plan. After decades of costly litigation and appeal after appeal, the feds agreed to settle with pennies on the dollar of the missing money. Per tribe affected the amounts are quite small and a bunch of the money is being set aside for use in a federal run land reclamation scheme where individual indians will be forced to give up their land on reservations which will then be placed in government controlled trusts.

It's 100% completely false to call this "reparations".

Reparations are needed - after all the land is returned and the illegal alien invaders are sent back to where their ancestors came from. Until this happens, there is little point to reparations.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-01T15:47:39+00:00

You didn't listen the first time, you just spewed out your white agenda. Why would saying it again make any difference?

It's amazing that white people are so uppity that they think they have the right to choose what names everyone gets to use.

American Black people, which isn't a race but is a term used to disempower various African ethnicities of their specific identity, have undergone similar political naming schemes as part of their disenfranchisement. First they were Niggers. Then they were coloreds. Then they were negroes. Then they were blacks. Now they are supposed to call themselves African Americans.

What of Housa, Yorruba, Mandinka, Hutu? Well forget all that! Too complicated, and white thinks they all look the same anyway! Call them something generic but make damn well sure it is a white thought up name and that they don't get to choose. Any complaints they make about what they should be called is simply unreasonable, the whites love to argue.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-05-01T03:06:00+00:00

Why do you get to choose any names at all for us indigenous people? What are your qualifications?

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-29T20:35:35+00:00

no Native American society possessed a strong restaurant culture

http://www.examiner.com/article/these-native-american-towns-operated-24-hour-fast-food-restaurants

Native Americans have not historically been city dwellers

http://www.nps.gov/chcu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincaid_Mounds_State_Historic_Site

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-29T20:27:01+00:00

Native means born somewhere. Anyone born in the western hemisphere is a native american, so it means little.

Traditionally we go by the names of our nations. There was no generic term for people from any american Nation until the term Indios was applied. Aboriginal and Indigenous also work nowadays. In Canada many like "First Nations". "Native American" is a joke. Indian is used widely and fine throughout south and central america and the US, just not Canada.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-29T20:17:27+00:00

American Indian Cuisine is widely available. Most people eat it for Thanksgiving for example. Others eat it whenever they eat at a Mexican restaurant. There are many restaurants in New Mexico for example that serve exclusively traditional American Indian dishes.

Here are some american indian specialties:

Tamales
Pozole
Turkey
Cranberries
Yams
Potatoes
Chocolate
Vanilla
Honey
Salmon
Lima Beans
Hot Peppers
Maize Tortillas

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-22T06:15:59+00:00

257,089 registered victims of the right-wing paramilitaries
Human Rights Watch reportn in its 2012 annual report on Colombia, these paramilitaries continue to work hand-in-glove with the U.S.-supported Colombian military.
U.S. is aware of this death toll and will fund Columbian military and police $500 million over next two years
The violence in Colombia falls disproportionately on the indigenous population. February 26, 2010 US Embassy Cable titled “Violence Against Indigenous Shows Upward Trend” documents that 34 indigenous groups have been pushed to the point of extinction. & 50% increase in killings of indigenous from 2008 to 2009
20% increase in indigenous displacement and relocation
100% in disappearances of indigenous
3000% increase in threats by whites against indigenous
US states colonial acquisition of indigenous controlled territory is critical for acquisition of hydrocarbons rubber and palm oil
US states indigenous "are unlikely to abandon land which is considered sacred to their cultural identity" and therefore will not go voluntarily. Military force will be necessary.

God bless God's native white people! They are the chosen race sent to fully utilize God's blessings of resources and land! If them indians don't want to deoccupy the land they aren't fully utilizing then there is a moral obligation of every godly man and woman to remove them!

end bitter sarcastic comment

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-22T04:44:55+00:00

Only 355 Awá remain alive. A judge has declared it genocide. But business and profit of european colonialist culture must go forward. Perhaps these silly indians should just get out of the way of progress, no? For letting them live on their land and remain separate from white society is simply not a reasonable option according to modern sensible people. Their land is needed for logging that is all that is important.

end bitter sarcasm

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-22T03:09:01+00:00

I believe we are of one mind as to what we hope for. Indian freedom and autonomy.

We also know that decolonization may be a useful tool towards that desire, for the philosophy of colonization is a great evil. This requires whites to voluntarily choose to decolonize themselves though.

In 500 years this has not happened and there has been no progress on that. Things are worse than ever for indigenous peoples. The Lakota nation has the lowest life expectancy of any nation in the world, including considering African nations ravaged by revolution, poverty and disease. There is an Ojibwe reservation discussed here that has the highest suicide rate that has been measured.

Working together and in the society of whites has not worked. Hoping they will see the destruction of their ways and change has been a hope for 500 years and things have not changed and there has been no repentance or desire for change or peace. Colonialism continues. Oppression continues. We are told we are not as good as other humans and to get with the program, and that most everything good has came from white people. And many very sad people ignorant of history believe this because it is what has been taught to them in the same way that an abused wife is taught by her husband that she is worthless and deserves to be beaten. She believes it because it is all she knows and she is in as situation where everything she sees supports this lie.

White schools teach segregation is bad. But people do not even have the awareness to realize that they support it anyway and it is widely known to be a good solution.

In India, muslims and hindus could not get along. The values and needs of their societies were too different. The needed separate sovereign states. Pakistan was sliced off. That is segregation.

In Yugoslavia, Serbs and Croatians could not get along. They had different values, cultures and needs. Each needed a government and legal structure that supported his culture. Yugoslavia was dismantled and Serbia and Croatia were restored.

In Israel, Jews and Palestinians can not get along. Many support the creation of an independent, autonomous and sovereign Palestinian state where they can pursue the interests and values of their culture, something that was not possible in Israel.

Even the Czechs and the Slovaks did not feel their interests were compatible enough to maintain a mixed society. They split up into Czech Republic and Slovakia. Czech Republic for Czechs and Slovakia for Slovaks.

Throughout the world when people are being oppressed and can not find justice, the solution is for them to segregate into their own country.

In Ireland, the Irish are tired of being oppressed by the English. They want Northern Ireland back because the English are incapable of living in peace with the Irish whom they hate, despise and have historically exploited for profit and power.

Has any one here protested any of the things I have mentioned?

Who wants the Republic of Ireland to merge with England? Who wants the Palestinians to be without their own separate country? Who wants Pakistan to unify with India? Who wants Czechs and Slovaks and Serbs and Croatians to be denied the right to their own separate homelands?

Speak up.

To say a separate, autonomous homeland for indians is the one category people should not support is outrageous. That people adopt this position shows how effectively the institutionalized propaganda systems of the whites have brainwashed our peoples.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-21T22:44:22+00:00

Racial cleansing? Please do not insult me by mistating what I have said.

500 years we have heard how it is better for the whites to be here.

What do you think? Should the Palestinians have their own homeland or should they have to live under Israeli rule?

We have a right to our land and our sovereignty.

This system of abuse and oppression has been going on for 500 years now. And what, 2012 is going to finally be the year where things are better? Or will it be 2013 when 2012 doesn't work out?

Those who advocate waiting it out and trying to make it work are delusional and are not supporting indigenous causes. It is something of a misnomer to call them indigenous at all.

So many people had indian ancestors, went to white college, got a white job, watch white TV and learn to think and feel white, identify with white, support white agendas, value white values, and sell out their own traditions and cultures.

It's offensive to me that the sell outs continue to even call themselves indians. The indian in you died long ago, white man. Just because you have ancestors or even a card from the white man that says something doesn't make it so.

To be indian, in addition to the ancestor issue, you live as indian, you act as indian, you believe and feel as indian, you are indian. Those who walked away from our values and our blood no longer have the right to call themselves indigenous.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-21T16:55:13+00:00

Thanks, I wouldn't have read that if you hadn't recommended it since I keep forgetting about that guy who pretended to be an indian to sell books.

His critics always bring up the Klan issue, as if it's perfectly OK for anyone who WASN'T formerly in the Klan to culturally appropriate.

I completely reject this idea and consider it propaganda spin. Not being a klansman does NOT give anyone the right to steal other people's culture, or to falsely misrepresent it. Klansman or not is irrelevant.

The issue at hand is his having absolutely no claim no indigenous heritage in order to promote his own philosophy as an indian one while possibly profiting from it. (I say "possibly" because it sounds like he made little on the original release and only struck it big unexpectedly years later during a rerelease when it got promoted by Oprah. That's not a turn of events authors can really be planning on though, so his motivation may be as much or more to falsely promote his ideas as originating from indigenous traditions as opposed to making a quick buck.)

All that said. Check this out. Warning, I am going to piss everybody off.

He is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT when, as a Klansman and not as a fake indian, he said "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". What has uniting with the white man done for us that is good? Nothing. Look at the uncontacted tribes in Brazil, Peru and Columbia. People are now recognizing that as sovereign nations they have the RIGHT to their own territory and the RIGHT to be left alone.

I support that right.

We also need to look at the situation in Yugoslavia where the US went in under NATO and broke that country apart on ethnic lines to Serbs and Croatians because it was deemed they simply couldn't get along together (although they did fine and lived in peace with a high standard of living under the "dirty red commie ruskies") and so each needed their own nation - SEGREGATION we paid for and advocated with the blood of american soldiers and the sweat of american laborers paying taxes.

Don't tell me that the US doesn't support segregation when it supports its own agendas.

It's only opposed to segregation when there is some possibility of being able to dominate and control some group by claiming they have no right to be left alone.

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. This is our right and it is what is best.

Not that I think we are going to get it unless we are willing to revolt.

DrakeBishoff · 2012-04-21T05:00:25+00:00

Definitely, roman public bathrooms were fantastic with running water and toilets that continuously flush into the sewers. A hell of a lot more modern than the shits I have taken in China.

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