Saturday, January 28, 2006
Lewis and Clark
I was asked my opinion on the Lewis and Clark fiasco. Simply put, they were the front men for the genocide of Indians going coast to coast.
Here are some interesting points I like to bring up. Before Lewis and Clark the middle of America was almost all Indian. Now, it isn't. People call it "manifest destiny" and many other lies. I call it "genocide." [we call it maize]. The immense death and destruction that was perpetuated on the East coast went coast to coast. It didn't become the way it is today from whitey treating us with love and respect.
Another thing about Lewis and Clark, they were assisted by numerous people that went along the journey with them, including an Indian woman (who is frequently mentioned), a slave (who is less frequently mentioned), and many other white men (who are rarely mentioned at all). But the most important men, as if they took this journey on their own, are Lewis and Clark, who came from wealthy white families. It's the wealthy white men who get all of the attention, and the rest of us are just extras in the great plays about themselves.
In an article by Polo in the Asian Reporter, Polo describes Lewis and Clark as a couple of fucking idiots who couldn't take care of themselves nor would they ask for help for their arrogant cracker asses because they were too good to ask darkies for assistance in health care or other areas of their white wealthy superior lives.
When I was growing up (and I tell this story often), I watched those history carts that came on during the Saturday morning cartoons. One told of the Blackfoot attack on those viscious characters who were only interested in fucking or raping Indian women and getting handouts. The Blackfoot thought "their goes the neighborhood," and attempted to kill off these disrespectful cracker ass mother-fuckers. They killed three of the pieces of shit (the cart tells it) but then a wounded man fired off a tiny swivel mini-cannon weapon over the heads of the Blackfoot Indians. The blackfoot (so the story went), having heard the mighty cannon being fired, released them to finish their intended spearhead of global domination that it has become today. They let them go, it is alleged, because of the superior fire power of whitey. I was always suspicious of this story because I knew the Blackfoot had guns for at least 50 years and knew that it took some time to reload them. They'd have finished off all those crackers in a matter of minutes before they could even attempt a reloading. My adoptive Blackfoot parents and the Blackfoot solicitor general tell the story a little differently. The story was passed down in their oral history. Seems that during the altercation, Lewis and Clark went into the hold of their boat and came out with glass vials that had cloth in them. The Blackfoot had survived some 5 of the 6 smallpox plagues beset upon their people (all but one of those plagues were deliberately set). So the Blackfoot knew they were carrying smallpox. So they released the pieces of shit to finish their genocidal journey. (If you believe oral history is inferior to written history, I'd like to point out the Columbus biography written by Samuel Elliot Morrison. A book of lies and bullshit to make a stupid mother fucker who was lucky to make it out alive on his voyages look like a great man. You know, like Karl Rove does for George Bush.)
The above story makes more sense to me, and I believe it. People did know how diseases were spread back in those days. I believe there was actual smallpox infested cloth in those vials because America is full of cruel assholes who love doing those types of things in order to create greater wealth for already wealthy white men. It is a pattern repeated throughout history and will continue to be repeated into the future until we decide to really stop it.
Me, I'm not into celebrating the triumphs of genocidal wealthy white men. They've created way too much killing, way too much death, way too much destruction. Why the fuck am I supposed to celebrate that?
Here are some interesting points I like to bring up. Before Lewis and Clark the middle of America was almost all Indian. Now, it isn't. People call it "manifest destiny" and many other lies. I call it "genocide." [we call it maize]. The immense death and destruction that was perpetuated on the East coast went coast to coast. It didn't become the way it is today from whitey treating us with love and respect.
Another thing about Lewis and Clark, they were assisted by numerous people that went along the journey with them, including an Indian woman (who is frequently mentioned), a slave (who is less frequently mentioned), and many other white men (who are rarely mentioned at all). But the most important men, as if they took this journey on their own, are Lewis and Clark, who came from wealthy white families. It's the wealthy white men who get all of the attention, and the rest of us are just extras in the great plays about themselves.
In an article by Polo in the Asian Reporter, Polo describes Lewis and Clark as a couple of fucking idiots who couldn't take care of themselves nor would they ask for help for their arrogant cracker asses because they were too good to ask darkies for assistance in health care or other areas of their white wealthy superior lives.
When I was growing up (and I tell this story often), I watched those history carts that came on during the Saturday morning cartoons. One told of the Blackfoot attack on those viscious characters who were only interested in fucking or raping Indian women and getting handouts. The Blackfoot thought "their goes the neighborhood," and attempted to kill off these disrespectful cracker ass mother-fuckers. They killed three of the pieces of shit (the cart tells it) but then a wounded man fired off a tiny swivel mini-cannon weapon over the heads of the Blackfoot Indians. The blackfoot (so the story went), having heard the mighty cannon being fired, released them to finish their intended spearhead of global domination that it has become today. They let them go, it is alleged, because of the superior fire power of whitey. I was always suspicious of this story because I knew the Blackfoot had guns for at least 50 years and knew that it took some time to reload them. They'd have finished off all those crackers in a matter of minutes before they could even attempt a reloading. My adoptive Blackfoot parents and the Blackfoot solicitor general tell the story a little differently. The story was passed down in their oral history. Seems that during the altercation, Lewis and Clark went into the hold of their boat and came out with glass vials that had cloth in them. The Blackfoot had survived some 5 of the 6 smallpox plagues beset upon their people (all but one of those plagues were deliberately set). So the Blackfoot knew they were carrying smallpox. So they released the pieces of shit to finish their genocidal journey. (If you believe oral history is inferior to written history, I'd like to point out the Columbus biography written by Samuel Elliot Morrison. A book of lies and bullshit to make a stupid mother fucker who was lucky to make it out alive on his voyages look like a great man. You know, like Karl Rove does for George Bush.)
The above story makes more sense to me, and I believe it. People did know how diseases were spread back in those days. I believe there was actual smallpox infested cloth in those vials because America is full of cruel assholes who love doing those types of things in order to create greater wealth for already wealthy white men. It is a pattern repeated throughout history and will continue to be repeated into the future until we decide to really stop it.
Me, I'm not into celebrating the triumphs of genocidal wealthy white men. They've created way too much killing, way too much death, way too much destruction. Why the fuck am I supposed to celebrate that?
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