C'mon People

Driving around Cass Lake yesterday, I couldn't help but notice all the John Persell and Mary Olson campaign posters in the yards of my fellow Leech Lakers. I couldn't but help to have a feeling of disappointment and disparity for my community. Here we are providing our people with candidates genuinely concerned about our community and our issues, seems these people forgot all about Mary Olson's and Rod Skoe's editorial attacking our treaty rights last may. Persell's track record speaks for itself, from water quality to pipelines, from power lines to the big bog, don't forget racism and unemployment. He genuinely doesn't care for our natural environment we have a spiritual connection to, nor the social problems of our community. What do some of these brainwashed people believe Nicole Beaulieu or Gregory Paquin are going to do to our district if they find the conscious courage to say, "you know what? I'm going to invest in the future of our children." Because that is why we have taken up this struggle, to educate our people and give back hope to those that are without. Any support for these candidates that the DFL provide are just results of John Mcarthy's (the Executive Director of the MN Indian Gaming Association, also campaign manager for Mary Olson & John Persell) ability to manipulate our people's opinion. Mainly through gaming, that is big business, and big business also means poverty wage jobs and unhealthy work environments, which is not a justice met for the American Indian. Nor are the the licenses on our slot machines which allows legalized extortion to impoverish our communities even further. We are still very reliant on the insensitivity of the BIA. Unlike Olson and Persell, Nicole & Greg plan to take the people with them to the Senate Halls. A lot of people can sit there and justify their ignorance in why they choose to support those DFL candidates, and its sad. We intend on holding the corruption and incompetence of our tribal governments accountable for their treacheries, so I understand why they won't support our efforts. We're doing this for the people, to wake them up, to help them take an effective look at our problems so we my effectively find solutions for them. We can't wait another two years, why must we burden our children with our failure to stand up? Time is running out, soon they will be left with the problems we failed to deal with properly. I refuse to endanger the future of my children with constant poor discussion making of my fellow man, We, the Warriors for Justice care for your children as well, we're just trying to help all of see that.

Hip Hop in remission

Now, on a less serious note, although I take this issue rather serious, but I'm sorry to inform those that I have caught the attention of those that fancy themselves 'emcees' that I'm positive that nobody really cares. At least anyone with a respectable opinion of art. Yeah, there might be some of you utilizing this art form for the right reasons, but listening to the content of a majority of the so called music being created nowadays, I doubt it, but maybe I'm wrong, maybe your not doing it for the art. Or to express your self through it. Maybe you have no insight of experience or message to share, maybe you just have no direction, and your using hip hop to express that. None the less, the girls got Drake, Eminem has effectively revitalized hip hop on his own, and Lil Wayne is doing a rather excellent job of exploiting hip hop to the fullest, and I feel comfortable having these men maintain its stability, their the only ones effectively breathing life back into the art form and way of life. There is not much left to exploit, the 5,000,000 attempted emcees before you that never went anywhere with themselves more then likely already said what you have to say. I have gotten very intimate with hip hop, hip hop was very nurturing and my only companion at times throughout my life, but pretty much all of these homegrown so-called, "emcees" today I see are on their own unrealistic self-centered egotistical pursuit of obtaining glory through their self-inflicted delusions of grander. Realistically they will never reach the height of Jay-Z, Eminem or Lil Wayne. Probably never to reach the heights of a lot of well respected underground emcees not getting the recognition they deserve as well. Maybe they just suffer from a low self-esteem, either way its pretty embarrassing watching these greedy selfish, untalented people plagiarizing and trying to imitate real artists. Chasing after their delusional, childish, fantasy of exploiting hip hop to fulfill their lack of character. It is these inconsiderate people that I have watched bring hip hop to the brink of extinction by utilizing hip hop to serve as their demented way of expressing not only their lack of talent, skill or actual substance, but they have also successfully exhausted its essence by abusing and exploiting it to gain some false sense of advantage over their fellow man with the same corrupted interests and ideals. It's no longer impressive manipulating ones vocabulary to gain a false sense of status. A lot of these young uneducated men and women over emphasize on their false sense of skill or ability, their real skill lays in their ability to manipulate others with a weak opinion of art by duping their social circle into investing confidence and respect in these routine skills. Rappers are becoming more and more common these days, their lack of talent and respect has also gave way to helping hip hop lose its significance. These pathetic individuals can claim I'm 'hating' a lot of these supposed artist are not even real to themselves let a lone the way of life, what else am I suppose to feel for those perpetrating as frauds to manipulate and corrupt hip hop to serve their own ignorant childish agenda? I love hip hop. Hip hop is some thing I have developed a strong admiration for, for it has very positive benefits if appreciated and respectably maintained to convey a strong message or to entertain solidarity. For me it has spiritual properties where I can conjure a sense of devotion to not only its true essence, but to celebrate the struggles I have endured throughout my life with it's assistance that gave me motivation and drive to obtain my needs to be the man I am today. It's disgusting watching people abuse the gift of hip hop to serve as their poor excuse of claiming their an 'artist.' Its angering watching these fake ass sucker emcees using it to justify their obvious lack of virtue. Its depressing watching these people pursue their greed of making it big through hip hop, hip hop has lost its luster for the most part. Today there's only a handfull of respectable emcees sacrificing themselves for the art, and only half of those emcees are marketable, so now that every word has been flipped, and every punchline has been delivered, what are you expecting to innovate by delivering the same ol rhetoric the dumb ass before you said 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe trying to be a rapper is just a modern day faze all young men go through today, like puberty or masturbating. As well as massaging their under developed genitals in a perverted manner to find satisfaction with this immature deviate behavior that most men go through. They massage their under developed perverted ego as well through hip hop, I used to fancy myself a emcee, but that is before these assholes got a hold of it and almost raped it to death with their under developed egos. Making a sham of what I love, sometimes I hold personal vigils to honor the strength and prosperity hip hop has seen me through, sometimes I reminisce on the meaning hip hop once held for me before it was desecrated. I find comfort in believing that if hip hop died tomorrow from the cancer these sucker emcees ravage its essence with, that it would live on in my memory. I'm not saying these things to create resentfulness, or to discourage anyone genuinely expressing themselves. I just don't like witnessing disrespectful individuals taking advantage of my loved ones. I'm pretty sure your favorite rapper wouldn't appreciate your ineffective abuse of the craft to boast your lack of respect for their gift as well, because hip hop is a gift if received properly.

Cofrontational Savage

Sometimes we must give into conflict, from conflict many things arise. Challenging your fellow man to adhere to their actual worth is a very honorable thing to do. To find the courage to withstand their ignorance and lack of virtue can help these individuals grow from their shortcomings that might be preventing them from being a productive or effective member of society let alone an appreciated acquaintance or friend. If we continue to be passive as these people abuse our compassion and intuitiveness, allowing them to undermine us and take us for granted we allow animosities and resentfulness to formulate. Then we become responsible for nurturing a corrupt, unhealthy relationship based on these downfalls we knowingly set ourselves up for, and if they can not appreciate those of us with the courage in confronting them for their flaw of character. Then that is when you must leave them to their own responsibility to find enlightenment on their own accord. This deference allows them to feel more responsibility to take the initiative in utilizing their opportunity to change, if you force change upon a person, they feel violated, and regress even further into their lack of virtue. Conveying solidarity for this person and their inner turmoil by granting them your respects in venturing on without your assistance is sometimes the only choice we might have the option of exercising. Yet we must be very cautionary if this individual expresses intention in resolving the matters that might have caused the both of you to part ways in the first place, if this person has failed to make progress with their inner turmoil. Then we mustn't allow or condone any behavior or actions persisting from the past conflict that was responsible for allowing you two to agree on parting ways. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find the courage to take accountability for ones irresponsible unsavory behavior of attitude or lack or maturity and virtue towards their failure of becoming a better person, they must find the courage to set themselves apart from those that encourage and influence their flaw of character as well. We mustn't take company with those we effectively identify as individuals that nurture negative perspectives or ideals that threaten or conscious insight on matters we concern ourselves with as being important to not only us, but also the people and issues we care for. We must let go of selfishness and embrace selflessness, if we only cater to our own agenda, then that will only result in the misery of loneliness. One can justify their anti-social behaviors by self diagnosing themselves to identify with a mental disorder to justify their lack of courage in confronting their shortcoming efficiently, but then that alone allows them to ignore their opportunity to find resolve with this inner turmoil. I speak of this matter because a majority of my community and my people tend to self medicate and selfishly pursue status or recognition for accomplishments they do not genuinely deserve, because they have sacrifices nothing, they have given nothing back, they do not endure conflict, they run from it, and yes, I am a very confrontational person, because sometimes these fake people need to hear this, they take kindness for weakness, so then that is when I have to get argumentative with these people that continually disappoint not only me, but the welfare of our community as well, and we must take the time out of our lives to disagree with these people taking us for granted, not because we hate them or dislike them. Its because we care for them, and we want to see them rise from the obstacles allowing them to find comfort in the pile of bullshit they hide in.

Ignorant bullshit

Most people don't like being confronted on their ignorance, they tend to ignorantly defend their bias views in a lazy guilty attempt to hold on to, or sacrifice very little of the comfort shiftlessness provides them as those that struggle for change have to push past their faithless, envious, lazy bullshit as well. I'm sick of these 'who cares' attitudes, what hell do you care about then if it ain't of anything of importance, and who are you to judge what is of importance when there are those that have the courage to effectively question the powers that be? Obviously YOUR agenda is more important then the possibility of bringing hope and prosperity back to your community, our community is overwhelmed with these lazy individuals wandering around acting as if their opinion or their issues are too important to give any concern to what others have brought to the table to fix. I see a lot the shinobs acting as if their involved, when their only being selfish in their pursuit to finding recognition amongst their community. These self centered ojib's are pitiful, and frustrating to tolerate, you just want to confront these fake individuals to their faces and say "listen here you narcissistic hypocrite, Knock it off, go get some integrity already why don't you?" Bending the rules to their advantage and using them to justify their ignorance all at the same time, are these people really that stupid where they can't even identify their own ignorance? Or are they just too much of a coward to take accountability for their fake, lazy actions and opinion? Regardless of these people nuturing their ignorance on fear, they tend to push their insecurities and internalized oppression upon the vulnerability of their children, forcing their children to become stereotypes and statistics to justify the racism that is systematically institutionalized within our communities. These people have forsaken their ancestors as well as their children by surrendering to assimilation. Yes, technology is very important to modern day society, and most of us rely upon it, but a lot of shinobs are sacrificing their integrity for the convenience of subscribing to popular ideas or views that disconnect them from the reality of the situations that consume our community. These people then in turn formulate an inept opinion of matters on the basis of their lackluster confidence in 'credible sources' that main stream media tends to desensitize their ideals and morals with. When are a people that survived on listening to their hearts and honoring the sacrifice their ancestors made to provide them with the chance of not only honoring our children by providing them with future, but to honor our community as well by realistically confronting the issues? To re-connect themselves to the tribal interests of our nation, so our ancestors will once again rejoice in our bonds of humanity of all living things. We have all fell out of touch with not only one other, but with just about everything that gave our ancestors the strength to survive even worse odds then we face today. Our way of life is on the brink of extinction, one day what is left of us will just be 'Indians' and the essence of being Anishinaabe will be lost forever to no fault of our own. Yeah, you might be able to speak the language, but can you live by the teachings?

You reap what you sow

All you can do is sit back and watch karma take care of those that manipulate their ways through life, these people think they can go around without any repercussions behaving in their false mannerism. I have faith things will be sorted out for these delusional people using and desecrating sacred things and taking advantage of those genuine people trying to provide the community with a sense of balance. They put effort forth to build some sort of false status amongst those they intend to manipulate, maybe they pursue these corrupt endeavors because of a self esteem issue, or some other matter pertaining to some inner conflict or turmoil. Non the less, their actions and behavior is less then satisfactory and robs others of opportunities that will benefit more effectively, or from those that genuinely appreciate and use this help to their best abilities to help others within their community. It just gets sickening watching these pathetic people running around making a sham of everything they can get their envious, greedy little selfish hands on, should I feel pity for these weak hearted people? Or should I put effort forth in striking them down to the level where they belong so they can wallow in their own grief they neglect and ignore from resolving properly? Because I see these people for who they are, not who they try to pretend to be, we should not exalt them for these falsities they try to push upon those directly threatened of being manipulated into seeing these people for who they are not. Justice is a word being more and more taken out of context these days, yet we witness it in action constantly, I guess these people will get to be rather intimate with its meaning if they insist on constantly calling down its wraith upon their heads. These Hypocrites are the ones that must own up to the selfishness of their treacheries one day, hopefully the lesson they are to undertake doesn't destroy their chances in aspiring to the person they think they are.

too many Indians, not enough Chiefs

Wow, I never really took notice to how many 'Indians' make careers out of being internally oppressed. Its damn near half of these fakes and traitors amongst us, these comfy lil Indians love to try and look down their noses at us 'Savages' that systematic institutionalized racism has kept disenfranchised. Systematic institutionalized racism they have been indoctrinated and assimilated into re-enforcing within the community they belong to, or a community they have been implicated to infiltrate to ensure oppressive conduct to not only corrupt interests to open up vulnerability to exploit, but to manipulate the uneducated masses into deceiving confidence from their supposed constituents and those they supposedly represent. They think their so hip and sophisticated when it comes to practicing their heritage and conducting themselves as 'contemporary American Indians' yet they love waving their lil pieces of papers of 'credentials 'at us less fortunate shinobs. As if that alone gives them right to feel pretentious, pompous, and arrogant, as if their opinion in any matter that catches their attention is of more importance then those of us more commonly downtrodden citizens that are directly effected by their shiftless jobery. These corrupted figureheads buy and sell their people at will, wheeling and dealing, hustling our communities into poverty and oppression, investing their efforts into justifying stereotypes that hold our communities hostage. The price of ransom is our integrity, all you other indians might be satisfied in entrusting the welfare and future in the hands of those that are obviously taking advantage of our communities discontentment, but I'm not going to sit here and take this disrespect from these Charlatans. We should all be obligated to confront these treasonists of the ojibwe nation, hell it is our responsibility to our children to stand against those that selfishly victimize our community, we are a tribe, if you consider yourself a tribal person then this 'every man for himself' concept is a contradiction of our very essence as anishinaaabe people. We are all responsible for our shared community, and this is ojibwe country, as the saying goes 'when in Rome.' These chimooks need to start applying that saying to the reality of their demographic, at least that is if they have has much respect for us as some of them claim they do. If I can stand up, you can stand up, I'm already a condemned criminal in the eyes of my community, but there has to be someone amongst us that is qualified to lead our people into prosperity. Their has to be someone amongst us that can mend the damage racism has inflicted upon our community, but I'll tell you one thing I know for sure, its not any of those token 'Indians' playing 'Indian' for those obliviously ignorant, insensitive, inherently racist white people that take advantage of these weak hearted 'Indians.'

Noble Savage

Uppity Indians? Where do some of these internally oppressed assimilated individuals find the logic or nerve in denouncing what those of us that have the ability to effectively identify as root problems of our discontentment? We don't need others that haven't the ability to confront nor the courage to validate and support the obvious cause to the problems that those amongst us have brought attention to effectively. I personally cannot find comfort in structural racism, why is my racial identity encouraged to being a burden? Not only by those that enforce these racist practices that disenfranchise my people, but is also encouraged by those that have become assimilated into the systematic institutionalized racism present here in Northern Minnesota as well. Yeah these are Indians that have been allowed to sit at the 'white' table and have been presented the opportunity of partaking in some of the white mans treats, such as white privilege, but only if that Indian does what he/she is told. Then he/she will earn the right of those white peoples condescending respect, they are then encouraged to look down their nose at those of us that rather not ignore and belittle the condition of our humanity, which has become very unsatisfactory due to those token Indians that have been allowed to ineptly speak on the behalf of our community at large. What is a politically correct way of identifying these Indians? Sit around the forts? Uncle tomahawks, and apples have been condemned as derogatory by the efforts of these false representatives of their constituents, would they be Artificial American Indians, or Counterfeit American Indians? Or would those be two separate definitions in themselves? Either way it describes a lot of Indians partaking in gorging themselves on the table scraps of the white man, I know all white men are not afflicted with a ignorant heart, but why then are these 'good hearted' white men allowing these deplorable conditions society has forced upon my people to continue to without ever saying 'hey this isn't right.' Because they fear they will be cast from the table of privilege and be forced to become beggars. Well, he should be worried if that is what is at stake, because I refuse to be a beggar, but I refuse to eat at a table where there is individuals that refuse to let me have my own plate, fork, or spoon either. I'm not going to play 'the noble savage' for these ignorant people, but I'm not going to pretend I'm happy with those that openly chose cowardice over solidarity for those that endure at the hands of those wreaking oppression upon the heads of those resilient people known as the Anishinaabe.