Friday, September 24, 2010

"Greed through the eyes of an Irishman"

I was very disgusted and angered today when I logged onto my facebook, I seen one of my friends sharing a link to a blog site called 'Indian country, Though the eyes of irishman' by a Mr. Mike Meuers. This man (Michael Meuers)might of finagled his way into the circles of those he's used to boast his deceitful career of exploiting the Ojibwe culture, but this contumelious, sacrilegious man is no friend to the Anishinaabeg. He blatantly undermines and belittles the real issues of my people's struggles we endure just so he can falsely romanticize any significance to his benefit. He constantly pontificates his views down upon the indian people in his pretentious manner. He is nothing more then a front-man for the DFL and their greedy intentions of exploiting the enterprise of Indian gaming. John 'Custer' McCarthey is unable to get his greedy hands on the Red Lake Casino business, being they are not a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, so hes implicated Mr. Meuers as his go to guy to manipulate the Red Lake peoples interest, which he is rather good at. Mr. Meuers has also duped some Ojibwe people into believing that his Ojibwe language signage he's taken up to put Ojibwe words in racist Bemidji businesses is solely meant to benefit racial harmony. All he is doing in reality is luring Ojibwe money back to business where they might of deterred Ojibwe patrons through obnoxious racism. Also, he's using our language to encourage tourism as well. Bemidji relying much of its funding on Ojibwe financial support and the tourism economy, so why not kill two birds with one stone eh Mr Meuers? Nicole Beaulieu and my mother being both language teachers have talked with other language instructors, and they have came to the conclusion Mr. Meuers' actions are very offensive due to the nature of his interests in exploiting our culture in a very racist city such as Bemidji. Yeah there's Ojibwe language in over 100 businesses in Bemidji, but there is not even a 100 Ojibwes working in those businesses. Where poverty and unemployment is rampant amongst the Ojibwe people that live there, I do not appreciate this irish man's perspectives and ideals victimizing my peoples interests here in Ojibwe country. I for one,' am not naive nor ignorant enough to be duped by this mans false bravado he uses to his financial gain, but I trust his overzealous greed will get the best of him and expose him for his true nature soon enough.

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