Kapernick is a liar

[Lumenari]

This.

This right here is the way forward.


It was back in the early 90's that Jesse Jackson wrote to me trying to get me to enroll in his "Rainbow Coalition", when I was attending the University of North Carolina on a "Native American" scholarship. I wrote back and told him I wasn't interested, as everyone I knew was some color of the rainbow, so trying to promote some colors over others was disingenuous and, well, just plain wrong.

I believe it was Graham Greene, who as I recall, is Lakota, who pointed out that hyphenated "Native-American" is utter bullshit, since everyone born here, regardless of color, is a "native", by definition.

Just be Americans if you live in America. Separating by race, or any other criteria, is by definition Segregation. So just be Americans.


I don't see a problem redefining the debate as between "Americans" and "Others" - i.e. anyone who DOESN'T identify as simply America, who insists on identifying as something other than America, to include hyphenated IDs like "Muslim-American", "African-American", "Irish-American", "Italian-American", "Native-American", "Hispanic-American", etc. The one thing I notice in ALL of those identifications is that "American" comes in SECOND in their ID, not first.

I don't need those kind of alleged "americans".

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I have to confess that I in the middle of my ink madness have a tattoo that says "NA".

In my defense, at the time it was a running joke in the Tribe that NA for Native American actually meant NA for Non Applicable to everyone else on the planet.

I'm American first Cherokee second.

As it should be, but I'm quite happy with my skill-set defending my country considering the technical upgrades the other Americans have brought me...