White Militias: As Usual, the White Left is Missing the Point
http://www.abetterworld.me/blog/white-militias-as-usual-the-white-left-is-missing-the-pointNone of this is new nor is it rocket science. The lands the militias are occupying are the ancient lands of the Paiute Indigenous people who were removed by force from those lands decades ago. These Indigenous people are still alive and functioning on reservations in the Burns area today. The white militias are nothing more than the latest version of invaders and settlers onto Native lands. And, their agenda to challenge the U.S. government is nothing more than European class struggle to decide which white people will occupy the position of ruler over Indigenous lands and the masses of exploited labor under the capitalist system. The fact one of the identified leaders of this militia group is a man named Ammon Bundy - the son of that cave man white supremacist Cliven Bundy who hosted a similar white militia action in Nevada - and another participant is white anti-Islam activist Jon Ritzheimer, confirms the foundation of ideological white supremacy within this militia movement. So, white people, we don't need you to flood social media with statements about how we would be slaughtered were we to take up arms against the government. We understand those contradictions better on our worse day than you ever could. What we wish you would do is recognize that these are your people joining and participating in these militias. Instead of posting "f - - k the militias" on Face Book, it would be great if you could finally sit down and develop a comprehensive strategy to try and organize your kinfolk. Someone needs to educate them to the fact their fight is actually against the capitalist system, the same system that oppresses the masses of African and Indigenous people. Someone needs to explain to them that their grievances are no different than the protests we have against the government for its agents shooting us down in the streets. Someone needs to help them understand that the day they can stand in solid support with our struggle is the day we can end this oppression (because we have always stood in solidarity with the suffering of poor European folks). At the very least, if your intention is to use the comparison to us to educate other white people, you need to do a much better job at utilizing that information.
randr
(12,413 posts)does not equate what these Yalljadists are up to with the issues surrounding Native American peoples.
The grievances of these few white extremists have are all nonsense made up in their under educated minds.
The grievances of Native peoples are real. You are right to say we need to understand and direct our efforts to ending the oppression of Indigenous and racially profiled peoples.
To equate the two is a discredit to the suffering of many people.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)The white militias are nothing more than the latest version of invaders and settlers onto Native lands. And, their agenda to challenge the U.S. government is nothing more than European class struggle to decide which white people will occupy the position of ruler over Indigenous lands and the masses of exploited labor under the capitalist system.
randr
(12,413 posts)I am just not willing to give the nut cases that much credit. I want to see an organized lawful end of the interruption to American progress that they represent.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Recced!
underpants
(182,861 posts)Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Shout it from the rooftops! Share widely.
niyad
(113,510 posts)sonofspy777
(360 posts)I'm married to a Mi'q Mah. One of the Abenaki Nations. She told me I could stay.