My poor heart

     Earlier this summer there was this right wing, bigoted, racist old millionaire who got a letter from the government telling him to stop having his cattle graze FOR FREE on government land. Well, this upset a lot of racist phony punk ass vigilantes who call themselves "PATRIOTS" of which they are not. They are baby dicked frightened little boys who have guns. There was a standoff and Faux News and many other "liberal media" outlets trained their camera on these wannabe hero's and hoped, just as much as the baby dicks hoped, that there would be a bloody shootout. There was not one. It all ended peacefully much to the chagrin of many tea party "patriots" and other right wing-nuts. 

     Here in America though we, actually White people and White thinkalikes, look at crime like this:

Black Crime = GANG VIOLENCE

"Latino" Crime = ILLEGALS ACTING VIOLENTLY

NDN Crime = SAVAGES

Arab Crime = TERRORISM

White Crime = Not really a crime, he was just insane at the time.

     It's true and we all know it. 

     When Trayvon Martin was murdered by a self hating "Latino" wife beater whose name I will not mention, I was just caught off guard and was incredibly sad. My friends has kids his age. Those kids are respectful to me and call me Uncle and have not thought of me as anything else. I thought about my nephews and it scared me for them. It made me sad to think that some jackass punk with a gun could kill one of my kids and get off Scott free.

     It weighed heavy on my heart and in my soul to think this is the world we are in. Shit has NOT gotten better since I was first called a spic or tree nigger, or wetback or such garbage back in the 70's and early 80's. Oddly after I discovered the beauty of the weight room I didn't hear that language so much. The violence against me by Whites had come to a stop. It's still out there. I'm thinking of the families of those kids and the devastation it makes as the crime ripples thru the community. 

     I want to say that if you accuse me of playing the race card I agree as long as we agree that White Supremacy is a Royal Flush.

     Mike Brown was a kid about a week away from going to college. Mike Brown also happened to be a young Black male in public. That's obviously a offense that is worthy of execution because it happens every 28 hours in this nation. A young person of color (Black, Brown AND Red) is shot by a policeman every 28 hours. I know that the mothers of these victims did not just have that child to be fodder to White Supremacy. Check out twitter under the hahstag #iftheygunnedmedown. It shows two pictures and asks which picture would they use if the person was killed by a devilpig cop or a vigilante or "Patriot". The lies, the outright lies about this young man astounded me. They said he was a thief and the officer stopped him because he "fit the description. That happened to me once when I was in New Mexico. The thing is the devilpig cop didn't know about a robbery and the owner of the store that was robbed said Mike Brown is not the thief. The guy they got on film is NOT Mike Brown. For all of my people that are apologists for the police you just need a history lesson and you'll see that the cops have never been for us. The cops patrol our neighborhoods, barrios, ghettos and reservation to make sure we don't leave our confines and upset the good White folks. ABC7 has a story of the Compton School Police being cleared to carry AR-15 rifles. This type of reading may be difficult for some of us and I do understand that .

     You know that old saying "the truth hurts". When it comes to this type of thing, recognizing that our family here in America includes Black people and besides sharing a common open enemy we are just genetically closer to Blacks than we are to Whites. When we begin to awaken to the knowledge of who we are as well as WHOSE we are we pass thru various levels of accepting the truth. We pass thru unlearning everything that Whites has taught us.We pass thru and begin to recognize them as an invading force within our community. We begin to apply the proper terminology to what really happened in history. We begin to use our beautiful language in our everyday speak. We stop calling each other Warrior for example and call ourselves and others Ogichida. Becoming conscious is painful because indeed the truth hurts. It is maddening to realize we have been bamboozled on purpose for so long. 

     So back to Mike Brown. He was shot 6 times even though he did not have a weapon, eyewitnesses to the event said the cop approached him. After being shot he lay in the street for over four hours. WHY? The answer there is quite simple. It was a message. The message was, "Behave nigger or THIS COULD BE YOU". 

     5 eyewitnesses to the murder by that devilpig say that Mike Brown had his hands up and was standing still when the officer shot him because he was told by the man who our tax dollars pay to protect and serve. The jist of the eyewitness account is:

 "Other eye witnesses, however, the cop ordered the friends to "get the fuck on the sidewalk," but the teenagers said they had almost reached their destination. That's when the officer slammed his door open so hard that it bounced off of Brown and closed again. The cop then reached out and grabbed Brown by the neck, then by the shirt. “I'm gonna shoot you” the cop said.

The cop shot him once, but Brown pulled away, and the pair were still able to run away together. The officer fired again. Johnson ducked behind a car, but the cop's second shot caused Brown to stop about 35 feet away from the cruiser, still within touching distance of Johnson. Multiple witnesses say this is when Brown raised his hands in the air to show he was unarmed. Johnson remembered that Brown also said, "I don't have a gun, stop shooting!" The officer then shot him dead.(Huffington Post)  White people have now set up a fund for Darren Wilson, the devilpig, because he is being "victimized". 2 days in and they have raised over $40,000. Whites know how to cover and protect themselves. That would be one useful thing that we could learn from them.

     What about the crimes against us that we never hear about? Have you heard what happened to 

 year old Takira Wilson? How about Tina Fontaine of the Sagkeeng First Nation in Winnepeg? No? It's slow and methodical what our open enemy is doing to US. Eric Garners family is mourning. John Crawford's family is demanding answers. Renisha McBrides family awaits sentencing. They're demonstrating & marching in LA for Ezell Fords family. This is a WAR, not a fist fight.Have you heard about William Blackie? More than likely not. He's a Navajo who was beaten up and left for dead by three White boys. 

Barbara Perry, a social science professor at the University of Ontario, has traveled the country in recent years to interview nearly 300 American Indians in the first large-scale study of hate crimes in border towns. She estimates that only around 10% of hate crimes against Native Americans are reported to law enforcement authorities, blaming the low reporting rate in large part on "historical and contemporary experience with the police, and the perception they do not take Native American victimization seriously."

Even the FBI's 2005 statistics on hate crimes that were reported to police show that while American Indians and Alaska Natives comprise only 1% of the U.S. population, they represent 2% of victims of racially motivated hate crimes. In 2004, a U.S. Department of Justice 10-year study entitled "American Indians and Crime" found a "disturbing picture of the victimization of American Indians and Alaska Natives."

According to the Department of Justice study, the overall violent crime rate among American Indians and Alaska Natives is 100 per 1,000 persons, meaning one out of 10 American Indians or Native Americans has been a victim of violence. That rate is twice as high as the rate for blacks, two and a half times higher than whites, and four and a half times higher than Asians.

The study also found that "American Indians are more likely than people of other races to experience violence at the hands of someone of a different race," with 70% of reported violent attacks perpetrated by non-Indians. (Huffington post)

Yet if I were able to send a message to our family in Missouri I would start by telling them to boot Al Sharpton the hell out. He's a fraud and a real life race baiter. Don't let Messy Jesse Jackson come back, he's cut from the same cloth as Al. I would tell them to GO HOME. You are being used and are participating in a social experiment that was made before many of us were even born. With all the cameras and media it is playing itself out like a movie for the entire world to see.Google "The King Alfred Plan". It's a military contingency plan to implement martial law within our community.

As much as it hurts, Tina, Mike, Trayvon and too many more are not coming back. Our best thing is prayer, calm and strategy. Stop asking for justice from a people who have no justice in them. This system was built on the destruction of the Brown and Black so fairness and equality will not be found within it.

Recognize the the police protect White people and serve White supremacy, expecting anything else would be folly. We all saw how they rolled into Wounded Knee in 1973 and how they rolled into Furgeson. They sprayed you all with tear gas, they shot rubber bullets at you, they used acoustic sound weapons and then initiated a No Fly Zone and THEN monitored your movement via drones and agent provocateurs. Keep an eye on those who yell the loudest hoping to hype you up into a frenzy and then suggest violence. That's an enemy and kick them out ASAP. 

     We need calm, strategy and prayer. We are all related and very much interconnected to one another. Let's pray for guidance, the spirit of understanding one another and love for self and kind.

A Sacred Contract

My most beloved brother and Kola in the flesh Tony Goulet is the author of a book titled God Help Me Tie My Shoes: The Sacred Contract of Fatherhood. (Available at Amazon.com or here: http://www.amazon.com/God-Help-Tie-Shoes-Fatherhood) which I just finished reading for the third time and it inspired me to write this blog. By the way, we are so hungry for Indigenous authors and here is one right in front of you so please support a brother and do yourself a favor and buy the book.

OK, enough of the commercial. Tony's book made me remember a scripture from the Bible that reads, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace, and of the increase of his government of peace there shall be no end.” This is written by the Prophet Isiah who saw that a child would be born just like all of us but he would be different from all of us. SO different that there would be those who call him WOnderful, Counselor and a Mighty God. NOT Almighty, just Mighty. This guy would be the father of a nation, a nation of peace. I do love how poetic the Bible can be sometimes. Not often but sometimes. By now you know Prophet Isiah is talking about Jesus, and however you may feel about him you have to admit that he was perhaps the one of the all time most influential people to ever live. His words are potent and powerful, his followers for the most part suck eggs. ANYWHOO.... Jesus became a father of a "government" which in a deeper meaning he brings about a paradigm breaking thought process. As a adamant, damn near militant, non-Christian I look at what kind of son was Jesus. Considering who his father was, what was the way that he fulfilled his part of the contract. One thing that has stuck with me from long long ago was something that Minister Farrakhan said. I'm paraphrasing here but he said that the quality of your sonship will determine the quality of your fatherhood.

Powerful.

The two heads of the Christian and Muslim faiths both said that whatever was commanded of them by God they would do without question. They both had totally surrendered their wills over the care of God. Jesus said it this way,  “Whatsoever I hear, that shall I speak. Whatsoever the Father commandeth me, that shall I do.” Both ended up become the leaders of a new way to proceed in life. Like Sequoyah, Sitting Bull, Buddah,Wavoka and The White Buffalo Calf Woman, these people of God brought about new knowledge that was actually just inside of us all the time but we had forgotten it and that is why they came.

Before anyone assumes, hell NO I am not lumping Tony into this group, his book gave me inspiration. He's no more a part of the above mentioned than you are.

If we followed the examples of them we would become good fathers.

Jesus referred to God as "Father" and if is OUR father then whatever He did for Jesus and all the other prophets it just makes sense that he can do it for us. They were humans after-all, just like you and I. How do we follow in the steps of a Buddah or a Wavoka or a Crazy Horse or a Muhammad? Study and then follow by example. This takes discipline. If a behavior or a thought process no longer serves a purpose in our life other than the will of The Creator of all natural things then it has to be shitcanned. Observe people who have followed, in all of thier actions, seen and unseen, the examples of these 'Fathers' and what type of people are they?  They are people who thru hard work and determination and even practice raised themselves from a lower state to a state of eminece. From my own personal experience with alcoholism and drug addiction I had to practice being a warrior, being obiedent to a son (A sober peer), who is obiedent to a father (Elder) who is obident to The Creator.
Hope that makes sense.
To me if you're a father then as 'head of the household' yhou should be in an elevated state. Some of us did not have a father like that or maybe did not have a father at all. So when we stopped trying to find/replace a father with whatever self-destructive thing we were trying to kill ourselves with we straightened up and in our head we got a vision. Not that spooky NDN type vision but a clarity of thought. The Creator makes all things possible and with clarity whatever we see and whatever we want that is beneficial and positive by our faith we can bring it into existence. I wanted to be free from the obsession to drink and drug, I wanted to be able to come and go as I please and to know some form of contentment. I'm not always 100% content but I have all of those things in my life. By faith it became a reality.
There is a line in the Lords Prayer that reads, "Give us this day, our daily bread." and this makes me think about what are we, as fathers, producing for our children, and in our peoples way we innately know that ALL children are OUR children, what are we producing daily? Giving child support payments or doing some physical action at some point but are you producing everyday?
If you are in a position of poverty and there is want in the house (community) there comes the temptation to get it by any means necessary, illicit means included. Our fatherly position means we have and conjour the faith to keep our children safe from harm and temptation is a harm in this case.
Being a father is a sacred duty. I don't have any biological children but I have many many children that call me Uncle. Like a father my duty as Uncle is and that is most important to me. Faith, like willingness and courage can't be given away, it has to be generated on the inside. This is why sobriety of the mind is as important as sobriety of the physical. I can use the aforemnentioned men as examples for myself. FOr example, real elders and real medicine people NEVER tell you that they are so. They are humble, they are just, they are representatives of the Original People and they fully understand thier role in our community. I want to be that so that I can be a better servant (Uncle/Father) to my family.
We all make mistakes but what a wonderful example we are when we own up to them, when we humbly admit a wrongdoing or slight and actively seek to correct it. Maybe some of us have shitty relationships with our baby mama but what if we change our way of thinking of her and decide to see her as the mother of these most precious and wonderful gifts we call children? What kind of child will grow up seeing a mature, sober, God loving man? The kind I hope to be someday......