Raising the bar

We're raising the bar on all of you ineffectively doing the limbo claiming your successfully jumping hurdles. Although we should be casting aside and tearing down all these obstacles, some of our people are re-enforcing them making them rather impossible for most of our people to overcome, most inadvertently, some on purpose. That is why we must innovate solutions for the struggles that our people endure that most of these stagnant activists before us and currently in our way have compromised away too much their integrity to effectively confront our obstacles any longer. We are not trying to discourage others from standing, nor are we trying to place the over bearing burden of their own shortcomings upon their shoulders so they can not stand at all, we are trying bring out the best and empower our people. We are trying to help them march forth into prosperity. We cannot do this alone, we must do this together as a tribe, this is our new trail of tears, the trail is called internalized oppression. How much more of our youth must we lose to suicide and violence? How many more of our mothers and fathers must we lose to alcoholism and drug abuse? How many more of our elders must we lose to diabetes and cancer? That is why I refuse to go forth any more until all my people have caught up with us, although I know there will be those I consider my people that will refuse to stand and march forth, they will stubbornly sit. Some even trying to pull others down beside them, attempting the congest and discourage others marching forth into hopes of prosperity, but we must drag them along with us. We must trample those trying to march against us, and I don't mean physically, we must drag their lives into better standards of living for our people, we must trample the egoistical, the arrogant, the pretentious trying to pontificate their skepticism of my strength and ability to provide my children with a future of equality. That equality will give us back our ability to protect our mother earth as she has protected us, it will allow our brothers to respect us as equals and let us teach them how to care for our mother, we will not have the respect of a teacher to share our wisdom until we are seen as equal, we must gain unity as a people to reach equality in order to light the 8th fire to have prosperity for all of Kichi Manidou's children.

"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.

The Wrong Savage

Tolerating all these fake, internally oppressed, sit around the fort indians is very difficult some days. They're constantly trying to misrepresent all indians at large by making themselves available to our oppressors to allow them to romanticize us by their superficial, submissive, docile, domesticated, roll over mannerism. Constantly compromising the standards of our integrity to fit into the white man's ideals of being these civilized indians worthy of the over privileged, overindulgent white mans racist approval. These indians disgust me, they go out of their way to discredit the significance of the struggles we take up to defend our people and way of life, they treat the grounds of our plights like some sort of playground for them to frolic about in as those of us that are aware suffer constant turmoil and despair that they somehow find the nerve to disregarded and belittle. These indians are more of an obstacle to our struggle then those directly responsible for our oppression that encourages their behaviors, why? Because there so damn many of them polluting our community, if your confused by who I'm referring to when I speak of these treacherous people. Then let me put it in a little more of a simpler form for you to comprehend, I'm talking to you that looks at all our problems as a means to take advantage of whatever may be to your self centered favor. So if you look at me or the people I involve myself with as an opportunity for you to try and gain some status or try to manipulate our strengths to justify your selfish agendas, then your making a grave mistake by targeting this savage. I promise you that you will not appreciate the outcome of your foolish notion that I would allow you to take advantage of issues that are pertinent to the future of our people. You got your priorities pretty fucked up for allowing your stupidity to lead you down that road with me, you better turn your ass around and go stand amongst your white handlers trying to look down upon me and my people. I know when we refuse to let these indians even get close enough to try and take advantage of us, they become very resentful. Groveling at the white mans feet is no way to live, I don't care if your oblivious of your pathetic bullshit or not, that's not acceptable. I'm rather fed up with these people that act as if their unaware their making themselves our opposition by obliviously re-enforcing the systematic institutionalized racism they have cowardly assimilated themselves into. I'm sick of these blatantly ignorant, stupid ass indians trying to stand in our way of defeating our oppressors, sick of all these chicken shit cowards that try to advert their attention from the conflict that directly involves their interests as well. Then these cowards somehow find he nerve to try and complain about the oppression they either protect or condone by their ignorance or fear. Well I'll tell these cowardice, treacherous traitors of our people one thing, They don't have what it takes to try to stand in the way of this savage, so they better get their little pussy asses out of my way. I reserve no mercy for these cowards, they will not know any pity from this savage, so go ahead a cringe as you try to act as if your not aware your standing in my warpath. I promise you that you will know the wraith of the righteous if you insist on provoking justice upon your heads, you will come to know you have fucked with the wrong savage.

Gifts of Strength

There seems to be an abundance of educated ignorant people running round preventing any chance of constructive change from occurring within our communities. These individuals like to assume positions of power in order to take advantage of whatever it is that they might see as an opportunity to exploit matters to their benefit. They like to undermine anybody that threatens or challenges their pretentious ideals that routinely victimizes and neglects whomever is unfortunate to be involved in the matters of where their self centered interests lies. They invest their self centered energies in manipulating whomever is weak enough not to withstand their treachery, my elders tell me to pity these people. But these people invoke anger within me that I can not contain for they are directly interfering with the change I see needs to happen for my children to live happy productive lives. Why should I waste pity on these people that seek reward from our oppressors for their ability to assimilate themselves into the systematic institutionalized racism degrading the quality of life for my people and myself? These people pose just equally as a threat as those that hand down the oppression we are all forced to endure, these people make themselves guardians of the structural racism they have come to find comfort in. We need support from the right kind of people, with the right reasons that share the interests in the change we seek for the future of our people. Its very frustrating when those we stood up for refuse to validate or give recognition for our strength and courage to stand up to challenge our oppressors, it means the world to us when someone goes out of their way to provide us with their approval of what we're doing. It inspires the motivation we need to continue our struggle to find justice for those too emasculated to stand up for themselves, yet some of these emasculated people some how find the energy to criticize us for our ability to stand. We want to inspire strength, not envy to bring out the best in our people, we want to motivate them to at least try to see beyond the oppression that consumes so many of us. Most of us haven't had the opportunity to be desensitized by an over privileged lifestyle that disconnects these arrogant individuals from the disparities of their people. They take on our oppressors ignorance to justify their ineptness and inability to find solidarity for the struggles most of us endure, they to succumb to frustration as well and cease trying to find understanding with their people. Internalized oppression is ravaging our people and communities, we need to start speaking to the young one to inspire real change. They in turn might be the ones who get through to their parents that suffer trying to tolerate their internalized oppression, pain and suffering has been a way of life for our people for far too long. That glimmer of hope we think we see in our people gives us the strength to stand, because just maybe one day when we're charging into one of the many battles we take on, just maybe our people might be charging in as well. That is when we will all never allow ourselves to be defeated ever again. Our ancestors were fierce protectors of our ways that allowed us to care for our children, we need to be those warriors once again.

Confidential cowards with control issues.

As others try and claim their fame to the plights of our people, I take strength in knowing these shallow self-centered opportunists will falter in the face of anything of significance that confronts their weak wills. Our people have pushed back from the brink of extinction only to let these overrated, over privileged, over indulgent superficial individuals polluting our community squander the opportunities our ancestors struggled to gift us with. These people either exploit our struggles or undermined the critical aspects of the problems directly interfering with our ability to strive or even survive in today's world being Anishinaabe. These people demonize the strength of others out of jealousy or envy, these people talk behind backs in the company of other cowards because collectively they still lack the courage to express their childishly treacherous feelings to those they feel threatened by. These people let jealousy and envy become their best qualities, others that let jealousy control their lives admire these people that live their lives by the energy their jealousy generates for their hateful ways. These people are too arrogantly oblivious to notice the immaturity of their ignorance, they blame others for anything they can get away with in order to avoid taking accountability for their weaknesses they confuse and pride as strengths. Do these people deserve to be enlightened? Or do they deserve to wallow in the humility they constantly try to escape by being exposed by those of us that are keen to their corrupted ways? Because some times I think I was put on this earth for the sole purpose of confronting these false individuals that are making a sham of any and everything of importance they try to control through manipulation. Do not take my confidences as arrogance, for I myself can be very pitiful as well. I am reminded daily of my humility as equally as I am reminded of my strength and ability to be the Anishinaabe I was meant to be, and I am willing to admit that I can be a better Anishinaabe then I was that previous day every morning I wake up to put out my tobacco. But my relationship with my spirituality is a bit more advanced then these fools that delude themselves with selfish childish ignorant arrogance, they create this false persona of enlightenment in order to manipulate others into encouraging them to put their energy into their corrupted opinions and theories that are based on their self serving biases. Our children deserve for these people to snap out of their ignorant stupor, it is ALL our responsibility as Anishinaabeg to provide them with the opportunity to be the best Anishinaabe they can be. People need to quit trying to commercialize our struggles and brand them with their egos, being an Anishinaabe man, it is my responsibility to to hold those accountable openly refusing to live in accordance with the our teachings these people use to serve themselves instead of serving our people through them.

The Seventh Fire is Flickering

The flood gates of revolution are about to burst open, and as those stagnant docile caretakers and guardians of oppression become overwhelmed by the displeasure of the people, those of us that maintain our composer will reorganize the masses under a new old banner of renewed freedom and strength. We modern day warriors are trying to light the 8th fire, and as we go out to the elders to ask for their direction, their approval, we find most are too reluctant to offer their assistance. For our ancestors do not recognize some of them at all as well. Some of them or their parents have lost our ways to boarding schools, some have no wisdom to offer for they were not nurtured in the ways of our ancestors. Some of them have abandoned our ways to fulfill their selfish feelings of belonging to the white world, some have just failed to pick up that wisdom and are just as pitiful as an Anishinaabe as a young baby. Today most of our people are to shallow, superficial, too self-indulgent to be recognized by our ancestors and manidoog, most ceremonies are done in vein because our ancestors have abandoned us due to their constantly displeasure of what we have allowed ourselves to become. Too many false people pollute our lodges and are not being confronted on their lack of virtue preventing them from adhering to the significance of our teachings. They pervert our teachings to serve them instead of serving our people through the teachings, and they refuse to give up their selfish corrupted ways because they are scared of losing sight of who they think they are. The two roads of peace and the road of destruction have now been placed in front of us, we today have been warned we are pursuing the mass extinction that some of the tribes of our relatives have suffered. We have allowed ourselves to fall out of balance with nature in order to fulfill the white mans progress of greed that is rampantly consuming our ability to survive. We are no-longer the protectors of our mother earth as our ancestors once were, most of the yards of our people resemble landfills, their behaviors resemble those of the overindulgent white mans. we have lost our connection to our mother that gave us so much power to protect ourselves and way of life from those that do not respect the ways and nature of things that give us meaning. Most of us have abandoned that for conformity and assimilation, we have lost our ways. As we sit back chained to these IRA governments and their stiffing policies and watch the white man accelerate the extinction process of mankind, we are allowing ourselves to lose our reason to live. We are sacrificing our children to our greed and fear, we are letting them down everyday, we are failing to show them the strength of our ancestors, everything we are is diminishing. Conflict is inevitable. We must once again stand up and openly refuse these poisonous ways of living from destroying us all by finding ways to honor our mother earth before her discomfort forces her to consume us all, even our babies. The industrialized capitalist greed of those jeopardizing our ability to survive must be confronted and forced to be made aware their drunk of greed that is threatening to destroy us all. There are these 'green technologies' that will allow us to return to being in balance and attuned to the needs of our mother, they will help us recover from the greedy exploitation and abuse our earth has been forced to endure. All these money minded indians that glorify that dollar are just as much our enemies that threaten our survival as those greedy men around the planet putting us at risk. Their greed connects them all to the energy of this destruction that is now in front of us all. They condone and encourage us to go down that path, we all need to confront these men with intervention or force before they bring this destruction upon us all, the seventh fire is flickering.

Stuck on Stupid

Damn, guess some fools are just stuck on stupid, ignorance knows no age, but some of these supposed men/women just can't grow up. Who the hell do some of these little dummies think their fooling? Trying to use big words to veil the fact they're idiots. Their intelligence falls way far from their mark, some of these dummies should be focusing their energies on raising their kids. At least their kids are naive enough not to know that their parents barely have the common sense to dress themselves, but here we got these idiots trying to interject their obliviously obtuse opinion in on matters that demand more thought then they are either unable to conceive do to some intellectual boundary. Or they are just too ignorantly lazy to invest energy into coming to a realistic conclusion? Either way, I'm not going to dumb down and lower myself to their standards and force spoon feed them some common sense. This is chess nor checkers dummies, so as I smack their damn checker board upside down on the floor. Don't get mad at me because I reserve my patience for the mistake my children make, not grown ass idiots trying to waste my time trying to show me their ass. Anyways, these cowards ain't shit, won't be shit until they wisen up to recognize anything genuine when they can't even see past their own bullshit. That shit would be depressing to go around being that stupid, yeah I do feel sorry for these sucker ass fools, but come on. When these little dummies go around spewing bullshit, trying to dupe people that they're these enlightened intelligent individuals they obviously are not. Trying to make a fool of me as well trying to sell me on their bullshit. Shit pisses me off, because I don't have time for that shit. If they were about half the shit they talk about I wouldn't have a issue with these assholes Yeah, I'm a man of a lot of words but I know when to shut the hell up and get shit done. Maybe these little dummies are just jealous. I hate saying that shit, because I've been accused of being jealous by idiots that don't even deserve to say that word. I don't know anybody that has what I want that I don't have right in front of me right now, and their just mad and envious they haven't the ability I have to see through all the bullshit, including theirs.