This isn't politics. This is tactic.

There is little to no democratic accountability in many organizations that are founded to meet the racial predicaments of our area. Most of these organizations leaders/figureheads are rarely a product of struggle or resistance, rarely are they genuinely concerned of the urgent conditions of our community. Most are too concerned of status or acceptance to be bold or defiant, for those leaders or figureheads of Ojibwe background that transcended the conditions of our people, they tend to routinely reach out more to the white constituency rather then those they have been charged to serve or have taken up on their own accord to finding equality and justice for. These individuals carry themselves in a pretentious sense of sophisticated vocation, yet they use their race to authenticate their inept or invalid opinion of the struggles they have socially and economically distanced themselves from. The cynical tokenism they subject themselves to is then used to conceal the reality of any and all situations they are cast upon. Any claim to Indigenous authenticity is a construct that ignores the facts, racial authenticity then assumes this elaborate concept of moral and ethical relation to the interest of individuals and communities victimized by racism and discrimination. Some of these individuals rely on a authoritarian sensibility of cultural conservatism they utilize by racial reasoning as means to promote their authenticity, yet they will compromise these supposed values at the drop of a dime to appease those they selfishly wish to seek audience with. The flowery rhetoric of these 'authentic' individuals most time successfully moves them into office or positions that overshadows the reality of the racism they have allowed themselves to then become apart of. The indoctrinated discrimination within our lethargic electoral system must be shaken to its core then if we are to ever overcome racism. We must organize and utilize the electorate as a means to raise our people out of discrimination and poverty, we must enlighten and uplift our people to the forefront of our despair. We must give back the voices of those that have been oppressed into silence. We can only remedied the lack of genuine leadership if only we can confront it, we must grasp the disfiguring dynamics that has devastated Indian country into this morally underdeveloped wasteland that has been used to justify discrimination for far too long. With serious strategic and tactical thinking we can create new models of leadership. These new leaders must not only confront the silence of our current corrupt Indian leaders, but we must also question the iconic figures of the past. In looking in all direction to those that have triumphed over oppression, because we are not alone when it comes to discrimination. We must hold on to our heritage, because that is what dignifies us in this multicultural society we are all subject to. We must transcend race to criticize the power that be, including the Indian component of the establishment. We must put forward a ideal fundamental social change for all who suffer from injustice and inequality. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr.