Politics, ethnicity and math.
There's no justice in the world. I'm NOT trying to get Natives "justice."
I'm a blogger who finds social stuff interesting and I write to occupy myself and sometimes hope that somehow leads to money.
I've mostly given up on it leading to money. I'm trying desperately to walk away from this waste of my time and do something else.
White assholes TOOK your lands. They wanted them. They could. So they did.
They called it Manifest Destiny to say it was a good thing.
The problem is this:
A nation isn't a land mass.
A nation is a group of people. You can have a nation and no place for them. That's what the Jews had and we tried to solve it by giving them Israel and they are still fighting with multiple neighbors.
I don't know why that is. Giving them LAND didn't give them solutions to all their problems.
This site documents that it's a LIE that Americans are mostly WHITE. We're mostly "White" because our census -- which is self reported data from people with a gun to their head to CLAIM they are White -- SAY yeah, let's go with that bullshit because I want a job and housing. I'm not a dirty injun. I have no mixed heritage.
So anyone who reasonably CAN claim "White" does because that's the magic word for being allowed to try to make your life work in the USA.
Shocking plot twist: Hundreds of years of murdering and disenfranchising people for not getting with the program and doing all in their power to be White passing and to knowingly LIE and SAY "I'm White." has created a country where the majority of people identify as WHITE in our self reported census data.
We're a nation of mutts pretending to be mostly Caucasian because there's tons of pressure for individuals to SAY that.
And you fools AGREE with blood quantum and its political goal to breed it out of them every single time you're an asshole to someone like me who is "too white" and "didn't check the Dawes rolls".
Fool, no one checked the paperwork to prove I'm White. They said fill out this form and TELL us you are White and we'll publish that as official government data.
You're so busy being certain someone like me is a White devil looking to take something more from you that you decline the opportunity to take something from the White Supremacists and say "Uh, yeah, she's with us. Her daddy was one of our people. She's Cherokee and on our side. Fuck you. You can't have Ms. Platinum Blonde with blue eyes. Honey, come sit next to me, have some fry bread, let me teach you a few words of Lakota."
MOST Americans are MIXED race. The evidence I've documented in previous posts on this site suggests that probably MOST are part Native and part European.
You fools AGREE and actively reinforce that this somehow means the US government and "White" people are in charge and fuck you.
Instead of arguing that hold on, if sixty percent are part Native, why are your rules the ones everyone follows?
Part Native ethnicity. And part multiple other ethnicities. But somehow that adds up to "a monolith of WHITE people" and their rules having all the power.
I'm part Irish, part French, part German. If you get your way and get your land back and send me home, where is my home?
I've never been to Ireland or France.
Why can't I go home to Georgia, land of the Cherokee and of my FATHER'S forefathers?
Why are you HATING on ME?
Why are you busting my chops for not looking like you?
I don't like Trump.
What is wrong with you that you think I should be your so-called ally and defend your rights out of the goodness of my heart while all y'all say "Fuck you, we don't want you, bitch. But it's the Christian Way to take a stand for righteous causes blah blah blah and so we expect you as a so-called Good Person TM to do the right thing etc."
FYI: I'm NOT Christian.
And CHRISTIANS stole your lands and murdered your people. I have absolutely no idea why anyone who strongly identifies as Native American thinks Christianity is anything good and worth citing as reason to do something and call it moral.
They sold you this White Supremacy SHIT.
YOU AGREE that you have to EITHER be a conquered people and the White man's bitch with no meaningful rights OR go to WAR with a vastly larger demographic and political body knowing you have NO fucking HOPE of winning a shooting war on those terms.
FYI: If you let your enemy choose the terms of engagement and pick the field of battle, you are practically handing them your head on a silver platter.
We can assume I'm "half German" based on my mom was born in Germany and was a German national before immigrating.
I know nothing about her family history. I know she had trouble immigrating to the US because she was from a city state, Danzig, which is now part of Poland (Gdansk) and she was born in Germany before World War II, so before we had East and West Germany and grew up in East Germany before illegally immigrating to West Germany....but let's keep it simple here and not confuse people with the facts.
I'm half German.
I'm some unspecified percent French and Irish.
I'm about 3 percent Cherokee.
The Irish weren't EVEN accepted as White when most of them were fleeing the Potato Famine.
But you and White Supremacists both agree I'm 100 percent honky if I'm HOMELESS and can't get my act together to get the paperwork PROVING I'm part Cherokee.
No one checked my paperwork PROVING I'm a honky. You people decided that for me and won't meaningfully LET me identify some other way.
YOU agree some asshole from a patriarchal society married a squaw a few generations back, so she became his chattel property and lost all human rights and civil rights and political power in your often matrilineal cultures where MOM sometimes owned the land so she could feed her children which meant you weren't psycho controlling assholes about who the daddy was.
You said "Well, she's cancelled as a person in our eyes and all her descendants belong to you and many will have lesser rights than we would give them because you're misogynistic bastards but we say YES to this plan. She's yours now and so are her descendants."
Instead of "Welcome to the family. We are matrilineal and her children have rights and obligations as automatic birth right citizens of OUR nation. We can discuss dual citizenship. Give us a minute to write up and translate what you've just agreed to here for your lifestyle and your children and their children."
And hundreds of years later you double down on "That blonde bitch Doreen Traylor isn't welcome here. We agree with White Supremacists and firmly reject her sorry ass and insist she's yours while whining and crying about having tiny nations too small to stand up to the millions who belong to the definition of our conquerers and abusers. We want to actively alienate her and give her every reason to NOT back us."
Gee, I can't imagine why your lives suck and you're a little people with little minds and bleak futures.
FYI: I'm a brunette.
Maybe stop crying over spilled milk and make some decisions about the present and future.
My maiden name is Irish in origin. Probably my Irish forebears fled the Potato Famine and weren't accepted as White when they came here.
My mother grew up in Germany during Nazi rule, while World War II was tearing her country apart and in the aftermath.
I have a predominantly Caucasian homozygous recessive genetic disorder. My so-called "White privilege" comes with incurable pain and suffering via a condition common among the Irish and ethnic Jews.
I'm a victim of incest twice over.
Who do you WANT to be? Do you WANT to be professional victims whining and crying about how your lives don't work "because White people"?
Probably NO ONE on planet Earth has a life unmarred by significant violent conflict in living memory.
I took an interest in Native culture because I saw something positive in my life put there by people who apparently did that because of the Native Influence in their lives.
And I was mostly met with hostility from people eager to revel in their abandon.
Footnote
No, I am not fomenting bloody revolution. I've addressed that before elsewhere: Train of Thought
I'm someone splitting hairs about definitions to entertain myself. I have a tiny audience and no traction.
I'm arguing explicitly against violent conflict.
If YOU read my writing and feel it means we have TWO options -- Natives can continue to revel in their abandon or there will be blood -- you are seeing what you want to see and not making a good faith effort to actually understand my words.