Where Will Our Children Live...
A lonesome warrior stands in fear of what the future brings,
he will never hear the beating drums or the songs his brothers sing.
Our many nations once stood tall and ranged from shore to shore
but most are gone and few remain and the buffalo roam no more.
We shared our food and our land and gave with open hearts,
We wanted peace and love and hope, but all were torn apart.
All this was taken because we did not know what the white man had in store,
They killed our people and raped our lands and the buffalo roam no more.
But those of us who still remain hold our heads up high, and the spirits of
the elders flow through us as if they never died.
Our dreams will live on forever and our nations will be reborn, our bone and
beads and feathers all will be proudly worn.
If you listen close you will hear the drums and songs upon the winds, and in
the distance you will see....the buffalo roam again.
Submitted by Tommy Flamewalker Manasco
From: NativeAmericans.com
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I heard Alice Walker talking about this same thing this morning, about how the ancient ancestors thought in long terms, "what was will be again" being their message. She was talking about black Americans--how the slaves who built the White House really built it for Obama's presidency, knowing in their ancestral way of thinking that one day one of them would make it to that slave-built building as this country's leader. Alice compares us all to relay runners carrying the message of our ancestors--the black-African relay runners finally getting to this country and handing their baton to Obama. To Alice, Obama could be a black savior--in the sense of a black man bringing everybody together.
Problems Already With Obama
He is not anti-War. He has said he will put more troops in Afghanistan and he's still saying he will go after Osama bin Ladin (I think, a nonexistent boogie man, but that's my perhaps warped opinion) even if it means invading Pakistan. And he once said he'd back Israel to the death in order to see it survive. This may be his white ancestors trying to pass him a baton, too.
Obama is for the death penalty.
He once said he admired Reagan.
Alice says, yes, he is this, but he can be persuaded to go in an opposite direction should the people pressure him into doing so. Black people are at pinnacles of feelin' good and feelin' bold for the first time in their existence in this Land of the Unfree and Home of the White Bullshitter--they are feeling more like Americans now and they are getting extremely proud of Obama; yet, there is some doubt about him even in the black community--Obama is a little too rightwing for most blacks--and I heard Mumea Abdul Jamal saying to blacks, yes, this is a great advancement and celebratory happening for black people but for them to not get their hopes up. You see, Obama, with his pro-death-penalty stance would allow Mumea to be executed. And Obama is from Chicago where only a few years ago DNA proved that a host of prisoners on Death Row in the Illinois State Penitentiary were innocent of the crimes they were charged with and were pardoned by the then Governor of Illinois. Surely Obama is aware of this--I mean, most of those men were black! Looks to me like there's a white-and-black struggle going on in the man.
And how embarrassing was it for Obama to be at the White House with G.W. Bush, having to hug him and saying he is a gracious host and a easy-to-get-along-with dude? "Hey, Barack, G.W. 'Lily-livered' Bush is the same man who while Governor of Texas executed 157 people, one woman, the rest mostly black men. He had no compassion at all for their pleas of innocence either, joking about killing them on his way to Huntsville to watch what he thought of as a side show." [The same irresponsible use of the Death Penalty is still promoted by the current Texas governor, Rick "Praise the Lard" Perry, who can't wait to start giving rides on the state poison-juice gurney again. And Ricky Boy has over 300 people, mostly black men and Mexican men on Death Row.] "Plus, Barack, this sorry G.W. Bush-SOB has brought about tons of death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has sent soldiers to their deaths and to psychological and physical maiming of they say now nearly 25,000 US soldiers. How can you admire this man?"
Death is so prevalent in Bush's foreign adventures his number crunchers don't even count the deaths and psychological and physical injuries to the over 150,000 private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter which Obama like most Americans considers a righteous invasion and occupation. "Why?" I growl. That war is just as viciously illegal as the invasion and occupation of Iraq! Nor do they count the dead Iraqis. Nor do they ever mention the 2 million Iraqi refugees scattered around the Middle-East, in Syria and Jordan in particular. Fuck Bush. I'd'a shot him the finger! In fact, President-Elect Wolfie Boy would have handcuffed Bush and hauled off to the White House jail--Pickles, too, as an accomplice. [I've got to admit, that Michelle Obama in that red dress she wore to the White House was some kind'a hot--I mean...but then, I'm becoming a sexist pig in my thoughts!]
Michelle Obama at the White House. Notice the different way these two men treat their women? Obama is up close to his wife, with his arm around her; however, look at Georgie Porgie, though--he's standing clumsily back away from Pickles. What a price! And he and Unka Dick are gonna get off Scot Free--what a power trip that son of a bitch went on for 8 years. He did his Neo-Con-controlled best to ruin us. Maybe he has. Yet he gets off the hook in January and gets to go back to his faux ranch to sit and wile away time drinking bourbon and branch waters while receiving his full Presidential paycheck, reaping tons of special benefits, like office expenses, etc. What a shame!
Ballyhooing the Veterans
While treating our veterans from all wars so meanly and negligent--a lot of homeless men, I've read, are VietNam vets--G.W. Bush was here in New York City tramping about the deck of this stupid WWII aircraft carrier, USS Intrepid, that some rich fool bought and got permission from the city to dock it over on the Hudson River. And a bunch of poor slob soldiers had to salute his AWOL ass and guard him--what a joke on us, huh?
By the way, folks, your writer is a fucking veteran of the U.S. Army. I proudly and patriotically say, "Fuck the U.S. Army, but why fuck the poor slob veterans?"
Politicians just can't seem to find any ways to do away with war. It's such a pleasure to these power-mad types. Did you ever notice, too, how fucking war-hawk Fundie Christians are?
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for The Daily "Stars and Stripes" Growler
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