Black or Red

So who has it worse off in America the Black man or the Red man? Why this topic again you ask well I want to address it and its my friggin blog. The last topic was not this anyway so shut-up. Lets start from the beginning, the Conquistadors show up and wipe out whole civilizations of Indians in South America those that were not killed were enslaved and impregnated so today what you have is Spanish speaking Indians all over central and south America. Except of for Brazil which was conquered by Portugal. That really does not concern us here in America but thought I'd give you a little background. Then the white man came to Plymouth Rock searching for religious freedom. They then promptly pushed all indigenous peoples from their lands or paid them $24 in trinkets and blankets and tried to convert them to Christianity. So I guess no religious freedom for all men just ask Roger Williams (if you must google him you are not intelligent enough to read this blog). The now Colonists push south the Indians push west The white man now has land but no one to work it. So the English, Spanish and Portuguese bring the slaves from Africa which the white men buy to work the fields. Ladies and gentlemen this is where liberal leftist history seems to skew, there were slaves in the northeast United States, yes the north had slaves but how could this be I was taught only the south had slaves. Right and don't forget you were also told FDR and JFK were great men and great Presidents but we know they were rich men thanks to their fathers and were of low moral fiber. Then came the Indian wars slaughters really because the red man was not allowed to own guns and the "Trail of Tears" bet you didn't know the Cherokee nation was really a southern tribe and not a Plains Tribe. America's need for field hands increased to the point of fact that more blacks lived in the south than whites the north was populated and industrialized enough to where their need for slaves was minuscule.

By now most of the Indians were pushed across the Mississippi River and the white man could fight its "Civil War" the Republic was saved and the black man and the red man were probably more worse off than ever; they were free but had no vote, no money and no place to go. The black man was herded into cities of the north and south to seek employment of any kind not easy in such a racist society no doubt. The red man was sent to reservations where they would be free to live and roam around but not to leave they chose not to in most cases and were slaughtered in those cases. Funny we hear so much about freedom and rights in this country as it pertains to black, white and brown never, ever do you hear about the red man except for one instance one moment in time where the tribes united and fought together as one army of American Indians. Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho united to fight for the freedom they had always know to roam the plains between what is now the U.S. and Canada following the Bison herds living off the land true conservationists never wasting anything showing respect for the buffalo and the earth by not wasting anything. June 25, 1876 The Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer's Last Stand. I have stood on that hill and looked out upon that wavy field dotted with the white monuments that the federal government erects for its war dead and I realized that freedom is worth dying for and if is worth dying for then it is worth killing for. But the victory was to be short lived the Indians were overpowered and in the matter of a few years were reduced to reservation living their spirit broken almost snuffed out left to freeze, starve and die of sickness. The black man was doing OK during this time working in the fields and the factories hell the "Buffalo Soldiers" even helped the federal government kill the red man. Some freed slaves even started a their own country in Africa (Liberia). The red man was once again removed from land which was "theirs" when oil was discovered on it (Oklahoma in the 1930's).

The black man began to get sports heroes Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson et al. The red man had Jim Thorpe arguably the greatest athlete who ever lived until he was disgraced (not in my eyes) because he had played pro baseball under an assumed name they also had the Carlisle Indian School football team but other than Thorpe can you name anyone else without googling it? You can name the coach though... Pop Warner a white guy. The black man had race riots and lynchings the red man kept dying young of disease and alcoholism. Then drugs found their way to the inner city and black men and women began to die the family units fell apart make no mistake drugs have been a scourge on the black community. The government stepped in to save the black man and the red man; The Civil Right Act, Welfare expanded, "the great society" which led to more race riots though in their own neighborhoods (never made sense to me). The red man had an uprising - Wounded Knee 1973 the sight of an 1890 massacre of old men women and children and again in 1975 by AIM and Leonard Peltier who some call an American political prisoner. So the red man had AIM or American Indian Movement the black man had the black panther party the federal government looks down upon separatists guys just ask John Brown and Jefferson Davis. All were crushed in one way or another. Even the riots of 1992 gone and forgotten the black man was doing so well in the 80's and 90's up to that point. A lot of African symbols and clothing and X hats and shirts thanks to Spike Lee's movie I was in college and never saw skin color. Hell I even lived in LA for a couple of years in the mid to late 90's skin color never bothered me only the signs and trademarks of of gang bangers. Hey Malcolm who did Plymouth Rock really land on the black man is doing okay these days.

So who has it worse off Black or Red? Albeit with barriers and hardships one was allowed to grow and prosper earn a living get out of the ghetto and into the suburbs integrate into society if they want. One was left to die a conquered peoples death living in squalor forgotten by 99.9% of the population, a once proud people a spiritual people who loved the land and were appreciative for everything that it gave them, now live waiting for tax free casino money. The black man has a presidential candidate (half black). Will there ever be a Red one?