Love you daddy, your great sense of humor, your strength and courage, your activism, your love for Mother Earth, and know you're laughing at this video:
Received a letter today from a person who has decided to live here and call these lands her "home". Ohhh it was the kind of letter from someone who believes in Amerika. Go listen to John Trudell, and learn the difference between "believe and think and know".
So the gift gleened from her racially, religiously, politically, wetico letter is that am writing about my dad. Cool.
First let me give you the definitions of 2 words in the language of the sender of the letter:
Allegiance:
which means to subjugate your self
"loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause."
"those wishing to receive citizenship must swear allegiance to the republic"
Pledge:
1. a solemn promise or undertaking "the conference ended with a joint pledge to limit pollution"
2. LAW a thing that is given as security for the fulfillment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure to pay
So, this woman's letter says that she wants to know if a particular RACE of people are willing to show and prove their "allegiance" to amerika, so that she can "feel safe"... and it goes on to "rah rah rah piss on the boom bah" as me daddy would say, about "amerika protecting us from terrorists". Am a human Being what race are you?
I asked my daddy about allegiances and pledges when i got into 3rd grade, which is when we were told we had to start learning how to say the Pledge. All my teachers were women before the 6th grade and they never made us children say that pledge. Then there was Mr. Ernie Erdell that treated us like his little subservient soldiers, marching us in an out of class.
am remembering getting punished in school
teacher dragged me by the ear
to the principals office
in the 6th grade,
for not saying the pledge
to the amerkan flag
teacher recommended "detention"
which usually included writing some stupid sentence
on the black board
however many 100's of times
that the teacher decided it would take to
try and brainwash you
my daddy taught me
never "pledge" your "allegiance"
to a flag
especially if you don't know
exactly what it represents
daddy said:
when you are older,
please remember this my daughter
your first loyalty is to who you are
and caring for how you are made beautiful.
your second loyalty is with your family and people.
your third is to your cultural spiritual sovranty
with that which created you, and
Mother Earth and Father Sun.
i would rather you kiss our Earth Mother
and sing to our Sun
then pledge to a flag that
represents so much genocidal harm
When my momma and daddy came to the principal's office, where i was being detained from being part of those ever so educational "lessons"...
The principal asked my parents if they knew that i was not saying the "pledge".
My daddy replied with one of his cheshire eating grins, "yes of course, i taught her about allegiance and pledges".
I said, "Daddy, Mr Erdell drug me down here by the ear, and hurt me."
My Mom frowned at the principal with one of those "am going to have you for supper" kind of frowns, and put her arm around me.
My Daddy looked at the principal with a cool breeze and said, "Do you have a problem with my daughter not saying the pledge? Because i think you have a problem when you allowed Mr. Erdell to hurt my daughter."
Dear letter writer, am hoping you get the drift of this heart-think, cuz will not say this again. You have a problem when you continue to allow yourself to believe in the terricidal, genocidal, omnicidal Manifest Destiny of amerika,
of which it's laws intentions are to and continue to be,
to subjugate people into believing in it's Doctrines, Papals and Bulls.
thank you for listening ~
Alis Itlatol
