Stopped at the headline. I don’t take American Express or The Race Card.
Ehrich is a self-loathing white liberal who believes that “all cultures are equal”.
Wish he’d ditch the westernized apparel and sport some loin-cloths so he can stand in solidarity with the victims of “white subjugation”.
Ilk like him never lived in the real world...away from plumbing, heated homes, electricity, and cars...yeah those things whitey invented.
Whoever this idiot is, he is auditioning for a gig at MSNBC.
That explains it. I am an Episcopalian. I haven't been to an Episcopal church since shortly after 9/11 and a sermon that blamed Americans for 9/11.
Mush-headed ignorance. Pathetic.
Allegedly some guy shot a pregnant lady 150 years ago ( and should have been charged, tried, and if guilty executed Imho). So this socalled priest says we need to do -— what? All find a cliff like the Grand Canyon and jump off? For goodness’’ sakes!!!! Am I at least allowed a good stiff drink before I jump?
This guy get out much?
Reads like it’s ‘63. Or maybe 1970...and AIM is still occupying Alcatraz.
Navajo’s got kicked around a bit, no doubt about that. The Apache were meaner and they got a much nicer Rez...the White Mountains.
But modern Navajo’s can, like all Indians, leave the rez...head to Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff...and do. Went to school with a fair number of them. Ms. Benally who sat next to me in Differential Equations went on to Medical School, works on the reservation as an MD for the last 30 years.
Unemployment? Poverty? I agree. So why are the jobs being shipped to China - Apple could have an assembly plant in Chinle - and why are we importing Aboriginals from Mexico, when their distant cousins are already here and in need of a job?
And it ain’t like there’s any love lost between the Navajo, Apache and Comanche with the Mexicans. There’s a reason they came North out of Mexico Norte...no one treated them worse then the Spaniards and their descendants, the Mexicans. Ask Geronimo.
Fascinating article. I could almost see Billy Jack striding across the landscape again out near Winslow.
Wow. Just wow.
In a somewhat related “discussion” with a libidiot, I was informed that the Native American population in what is now the United States was over 400,000,000 before 1492. He found a book that showed 112,000,000. All without industrilalized food production and transportation. (Max population without industrialized food production and transportation was 18 million, give or take. Anything more was not “sustainable” to use leftidiot jargon.)
Short version: leftscum are literally insane.
Hyperbole much, dipshit?
When the liberal loonies start that kind of crap, it's time to pull the plug.
I don't know what else he wrote, nor do I care.
I figure this guy was raised in a special ed school in Cuba.
Life’s tough.
Who did the Navajo displace, The Ashkenazi?
Father Tom is obviously running for the title of national guilt-eater.
Wallow in it, Fadduh, wallow in it. Eat your heart out. It'll make you feel good...but it's not going to do a damn thing for all those "oppressed" folks.
Have another heaping helping of guilt...
For those who have lived in the 4 Corners area the story is quite different.
The Navajos were late comers who proceeded to attack all tribes around them. The massacred the Hopi villages around 1835. They made war on all the Spanish and Utes, but one time they made peace with the Spanish. This lasted for several years till the Navajo broke their own treaty and began raiding and killing again till defeated by the Anglos.
Then they had peace till the treaty was again broken by the murder of a Negro cook at a fort near Gallup, and the war was on again.
They were sent to Fort Sumner where they were forced to try and become civilized. after several years they up and walked away back to the 4 Corners area.
Compare the Navajo LONG WALK (300 miles)with the Cherokee Trail of Tears (800 miles in winter) and the Navajos come off as whiners.
Not all Navajos went. Many were still hidden back in the hills. Today they have the largest reservation in Arizona-New Mexico. It has only been in the last 40 years that the Navajo have decided to start using their water rights set aside by the early settlers and now have large irrigated farms around Farmington.
I lived there during the American Indian Movement and takeover of the Fairchild plant at Shiprock.
Even the Navajos I worked with disliked the AIM people.
Absurd. Take your religion and....
Indians can easily become citizens of the United States.
Correct me if I’m wrong - but don’t a lot of Indians have dual citizenship with the US and their tribe?
On the other hand, if you want to join the most Indian tribes, you have to prove that your grandparents were members of the tribe. In fact, you can be kicked out of a tribe in a lot of places for not being Indian enough.
Half breeds need not apply!
But I’m lectured that only white people are racist and bigoted?
With all the tears this “priest” shed over the past, I wonder how many dead indians and slaves he brought back to life.