Internalized Oppression; Deadliest disease in Indian Country

How do any of these people that are not realistic about themselves going to take anything of importance to task? A lot of pretentious folks that lack humbleness, that become detached from their humility, whom in most cases hold degrees like to believe that tasks that concern the attention of somebody that in their opinion holds the credentials to tackle such critical situations withhold their recognition from those of us that are effectively confronting these matters. Why? Because we are the ones directly involved with these afflictions they undermine. Yes, there might have been a period in their lives in which they have had to persevere such obstacles we are currently enduring, but that is now behind them, and now they won't allow their standards to be lowered to the oppression that they in some way believe they have risen above, but these people in my opinion have only deluded themselves to believe these things. A lot of downtrodden people's energy and willpower goes towards just making through the day, a lot of times Nicole and I have to focus our energy on maintaining our family, the tasks we have taken up are mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially exhausting. The struggles we endure have caused stress within our home, our family, our friendships, our community. Yet we refuse to give up, who else is standing up to the problems we have consciously identified and confronted? Their isn't many, because a lot of these oppressed people in reality are not looking to overcome the systematic institutionalized racism, they have been assimilated into re-enforcing stereotypes of the conferred dominance we have allowed ourselves to become victim of. For every one of us that stands to confront these problems there is 1000 white people arrogantly questioning our social rebellion against their indoctrinated racism they are inherently vulnerable to, so these privileged Indians they have given a taste of the American dream become intoxicated by the pursuit of conformity in order to taste some more of what they see the white man gorging himself on. The grandfathers of these white men of today wished for my grandfathers to eat dirt, their sons, the fathers of today's white man witnessed the civil rights movement, mostly in disdain, threatened by the equality of the minority drove them to withdraw even further into their racism. Preserving and hiding their ignorance away in towns like Bemidji throughout the country, I could respect one's right to thrive within a racist community in peace, but not when this racist community is centralized between the 3 biggest Ojibwe reservation in the Ojibwe nation. This is very unacceptable, American Indians teaching their children to assimilate into tolerating these ignorant living conditions is unacceptable, our freedom is dwindling, there will be nothing left for our children if we allow the thief of our humanity to continue to occur. The greed of our white brothers has allowed our directionless communities to usher in leaders that have made a business out of buying and selling our people, they have found the right Indians for the job when it comes to keeping us in line and under control. Our communities have become overwhelmed by mainstream media like the rest of the know world, as we contemporary people struggle to hold onto our culture. Their is not much genuine to being 'Indian' today, a lot of the culture within our communities are being diluted by mainstream society, a lot of spurious traditions have taken place of our original teachings. The manipulative teachings of our white brothers have also been integrated into our communities. Honor is also something that is near extinction besides our language, we must return to our warrior societies to discipline our young warriors to be real men, not these gangsters that we have neglected in preventing them from glorifying, and robbing our tribe of their energy. We are losing grips with our humanity, throughout Indian country we are regressing into ignorance by process of internalized oppression. Internalized oppression is more of a disease ravaging our communities more than diabetes, cancer, heart disease and alcoholism combined, in most cases these diseases are direct result of internalized oppression. There is tribally funded campaigns launched to bring awareness and combat these diseases, the Warriors for Justice Political Party is the only organization confronting systematic institutionalized racism and internalized oppression throughout Indian Country. Currently we are underfunded and undermanned, but we will continue to press the issue until the awareness spreads, until it can no longer be ignored, neglected and undermined. Internalized oppression is also the withholding of ones support for those fighting for their children, whatever the reason maybe that prevents them from standing up for their children, do not let that prevent you from at least supporting those of us going out to confront this racism before it is oppressing them, our children, our future. One day they'll be exposed to hatred, racism, oppression. sad to say, but some people are just too stuck on stupid to realize their indoctrinating their children into being internally oppressed. Yet this is the responsibility of being apart of an Anishinaabe community, to reach out to those misguided children, to give them a chance at a better life their family might not be able to provide them with. Some of the families of our community have fallen into a vicious cycle of neglect, a lot of families never healed from traumatic displacement behaviors we were exposed to during the boarding school era, the wounds run deep and rip through generations of our people if we do not confront these behaviors and heal from them through our teachings. Our teachings help us be a better Anishinaabe, for ourselves, our children, our families, our communities. Are we to be the last of the first Americans? Looking upon my children give me hope this will not be our fate, looking upon my children give me determination to stand up for them so they will not have a harder road then the one I have walked for them. They deserve better, their innocence washes away any hatred or resentment I have picked up along the way, they teach me patience, love, and understanding. So I will honor these little ones that have taught me more about myself then any elder ever has. I will fight for them and them alone, I will stand against anyone red or white that wishes to prevent me from providing them with hope I hadn't found for myself until they came into my life.