Freudian Slip

Before I get into the "element," of what's being discussed, I want to address the proverbial elephant in the room about the entire subject of Hasan Minaj and his counter claim against an Article written about him in the New Yorker. First, we have to acknowledge Hasan's ethnicity, as a decendant of Hindu and Uttar Pradeshi parents Minaj is an Indian American. Then we have to acknowledge that he's also a mainstream stand-up comic in an area where there aren't many who can provide the perspective he has. One is directly connected to two and to provide any details otherwise, is just false equalivency. That is what is being attacked about Hasan Minaj. No matter if the perspective is that the story he tells isn't accurate by a day or that the reason given isn't what the parents of a non-ethnic girl said. He's a Muslim American. That's the entire point of the debate. Like I said, without jumping into the details of the claims and counter claims that's what were talking about. So, since we've established that fact let's take on any other ethnicity in comedy. Would if you're African American or Native American? Would if the comedian is Chicano or Pacific Islander? Do we also go into the past they describe and interview the parents of some broadsided relationship because of racial differences? It's an important fact because I want to know when it's appropriate to start checking if Jerry Sienfeld's story checks out. Do we start investigating Jeff Foxworthy to find out if he's really a redneck? As idiotic as it sounds that's the petty level were on with the Hasan Minaj story. I saw Hasan's video. The NPR story I later read he's being accused of exaggerated racism. In the sense that he is the person receiving the treatment, let's be clear about it. The reason it's important is because the New Yorker which is a paper I actually do read is accusing someone of race of being treated unfairly racially and then exaggerating about it. Do you see how improper that sounds? Let me put it this way. Let's say a woman is sexually assaulted. Without going into the degree of the assault, let's just say she wasn't raped. Okay, we established that she wasn't forced to have sex, but in the midst of discussing her assault do we start measuring her reaction to being assaulted? Do we start calculating where she is exaggerating the moment where she took offense to being put into a situation that was humilating and fearful? That's what were talking about. We're talking about a powerless person being put in a situation of powerlessness and apparently, now were measuring their reaction to judge them in this situation. It doesn't make sense. How far does it go? "The New Yorker story notes that the comic's 2022 special The King's Jester features a segment alleging Craig Monteilh, a real-life FBI informant who spied on Muslim communities in Southern California, had infiltrated the mosque frequented by Minhaj's family under the name "Brother Eric." Monteilh said that he never visited that mosque or met Minhaj, which the comic acknowledged in The New Yorker story." Wait a second! Did I read that right? "A real-life FBI informant," is what it say's? So now were using real tax dollars to dismiss a claim by a comedian, a comedian, who happened to tell a story similiar to something that actually happened to families like his and by a government like ours? How far does this stuff go? Then finally they go into the details of the Turkish embassy murder where a citizen of the U.S. was abducted and murdered and pronounce that Hasan was there, but according to "un-named employee," it was a month earlier. That's how far it goes. A murder story that actually happened. In essence, I am astounded by the real depiction here. I remember the episode of the show Hasan was on and it did appear to be around the time that the abduction/murder happened. I have to take into account that most episodes are shot ahead of time, but it still puts Hasan at the actual location around about the time that something really happened. In my mind, Hasan is not a comedian at this point, he's a reporter. That's the line I believe he is considered "to close," to the action. In reality, I don't know that these stories are fair in that they provide "free advertisement." Nothing is at it should be. Donald Trump proved that. Like for instance, Britney Spears comes out and said Justin Timberlake "fathered a child," she lost. Okay, that's sad, but it just so happens that now Justin Timberlake is planning a "comeback tour." I didn't even realize he went anywhere, but it is almost the holiday season and a JT Christmas makes sense. Whoa, look at me. I got "off-subject," so fast that you'd have to put on an episode of Shark week with nothing but minorities in it to get me back to the real subject here. The thing is, corporations took on the societal problems of division which I personally believe is exploitation because fan bases do not become disloyal that easily. I'm looking at you Bud Light. So now, we must be moving on to entertainment. It's all connected anyway. It's like commercialism will replace selective narratives in the future. No more BLM or Water is Life, just coke and pepsi. Remember the time when Kylie Jenner solved police brutality with an aluminum soda can? The struggle is real and in America if the reality can be diluted and overcome with advertising entertainment, be damned the well intention. I feel like I'm getting off subject here. Hasan was a victim and he turned that into a comedy bit. Isn't that what were talking about here. Isn't that the real crime? It's almost as if you're an American, whatever you claim couldn't happen to you because you're an American. When did this little fact start to become true? Oh wait, that's right I forgot. If it's true for you then that makes it true for everyone else even though no one looks alike and has the exact same experience in America. In case your missing the sarcasm here, I'm using it like a comedian uses "comedy relief," to talk about something serious, so that they won't be accused of racially profiling the entertainment. Oops, did I just literally say that an entertainment medium like the New Yorker is profiling a comedian's act to sell more advertisement? If I did in fact say that, it's just a Freu

dian slip. In all honesty, we don't know where the "battle ground," draws its lines anymore because they're all over the place. It's like a congressional voting map in say, Georgia. The point is that someone in Georgia that just happen to be a member of one party drew a map that just happens to favor that parties turn out in voting, even though the majority of the people in the district belong to the opposing party. That's the only political parallel I'm making here. It's what I believe is behind all of this. It's my moderate tepid "Dipping a toe," in conspiracy if you will. I don't think politics needs to be everywhere, all the time, all at once. I believe there is a time and place for things. I heard this saying though and it sticks. "If all other financial tools fail, start a war." Now that can be taken a lot of different ways. Was the author talking about a bidding war? Were they referring to competition in a consumer market? I mean we live in a capitalist society. Does X amount of Dollars equate to x amount of bullets? The answer is yes, absolutely they were talking about a real and actual war because greed knows no bounds. Think about it. Bibby hasn't been popular for like a decade. He's been reaching, "Putin Popularity," rates lately. Uncle Biden missed all of the snafu and inherited a disaster. England doesn't have a Queen. Nobody is clamoring to kiss Charles' ring. All democratic society rules point to "frivolous," and ongoing investigations. I actually meant to write the "F," word with the word war behind it, but when I checked to see if I was spelling it right, ongoing investigation came out. I kept it because that's what we've been doing all this time. Of course to the people or person in an investigation it's not "frivolous," just like the people who are in war it isn't either. It supports the point I'm making. Hasan Minaj - comedian, actor, entertainer is being investigated for, checks notes, lying about racism. What a crock. A Muslim that talks about racism is being investigated, frivolous, I might add, for racism? Who exactly is the victim here? Well, according to the New Yorker, it's not Hasan. That doesn't make any sense and often times when your being sold a load of bullshit, it hardly ever does make sense. I believe the average American is still trying to figure out how to work their new iphone or how to start their car without a key. Nobody is paying attention to the things our government is doing. One Billion to Ukraine! Another billion to Ukraine! Oh, Israel, you get a billion to. Who the hell are they getting all this money from? If you guessed the guy or gal that can't operate an iphone or keyless entry, you guessed right. When you do look up which all of us will eventually, you'll see this comedian on the news and think, "Ah - Bad, scary Muslim." That's not even why he's up there. If I recall, weren't they building in development on the Gaza strip where blockades have been in place for decades condos and other settlement construction? Think about it. Here at home, all of a sudden the Feds use Eminent domain to build a border wall and then the week after an Emergency Alert goes out and Hamas executes a perfectly timed attack across a fortified fifty year old border that's never been penetrated. Subsequently, we lock our borders here, close down all out of continent travel and start searching for sects or hives here internally. Did I get that right? It's called, "Wag the Dog," people. I believe Dustin Hoffman made a movie about it. I'm sure there are attacks. I'm sure they are real and in no way shape or form am I instigating Anti-Semitic tropes. I don't believe for a second that things are exaggerated. I did see a video where someone set off a bomb though and then all these people came in after it and laid on the ground to be picked up by the ambulance, but I can't confirm where that was at. All I'm saying is for other countries this is real and I'm sure Americans can't even begin to comprehend some of the things that happen. We can though because we have terrorism. I just don't think it's Hasan Minaj or Kat Williams or Eddie Murphy. Honestly, it's not anyone bringing you the news. It's not Fox News either. Although, I did get into a vehicle not to long ago where the radio was stuck on the conservative pod and I have to tell you by the time I got out of the car, I was almost convinced every Democrat Socialist needed to be burned at the stake for considering the plight of the Palestian people, but eventually the fresh air reached my brain and I realized they were human showing compassion for other humans. That goes for Israel's people to. So there it is. It's called "the Neutral Zone." You know, the place where we all onced lived because we weren't actually being attacked. That's what I'm saying. Hasan might be being attacked for exaggeration, but I thought that's what comedians did. I'd like to apologize for comparing what happened to him to sexual assault also. there is nothing funny about it. I wasn't trying to be funny there. It's no joke.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Just to lighten things up a little, I've included the picture of the Sun made by noted West Coast Artist Calvin Hunt at the bottom. He is Kwakwaka'wakw The same First Nation's Tribe as my sons. In their genealogy the intersection between the Super Natural and human is foretold through the culture of practice. The ancestors were killed for practicing their spiritual and or traditional culture. It isn't more obvious then it is today that you can see the survivors of genocide and it isn't more pronounced then it is in this artform. The supernatural element of the universe is a part of us. A physical object such as this can represent culture, especially when it tells a story. Our songs, languages & dances are not folklore! We don't keep records locked away in repository. Our history is still living! It's living through us in everything that you see. We're just the vessel that the creator uses to express the ideals of the universe. It's Time Immemorial, Manifest Destiny, Despot Oppression. These things dictate our Warrior Spirit and yes, many of our people have died because of it, but we're still here. You don't see me talk about this particular subject a lot because it's not mine. Culture is something your born with and because some folks have died or had it taken away from them, the effort to beat it out of them and the injuries resulting in death, we as the people who hold that history don't talk about it for respect of our ancestors. It happened to them. It's their experience! But, because it's still happening right up until today (MMIWP) we've taken the opportunity to realize there is healing in discussing the part of our history which we don't speak. It's an effort to move forward, so I would take precaution in finding understanding. I know it's the human thing to do, but if we, ourselves, don't even mention it out of respect & dignity of the victims, it might be something that isn't taken lightly, especially outside of the sacred circle. Words have meaning, spelling is just that around the same time or a little before the Boarding Schools, American History had women who possessed knowledge of reading & writing burned for just about the same reason our ancestors were attacked. Oppressors oppress through means of dismissing others. It happens gradually at first, but then ultimately ends in the way I am trying to delicately describe except it's very violent, resulting in murder. That sort of discussion is to be had with people known to be able to physically, emotionally, but most of all Spiritually fit to hold the discussion. You don't invite evil into your mind and heart out of convenience sake. Our lives are not at your disposal because you just all of a sudden decided to care what happens to us. Our lives belong to the creator and we answer to him or her, whatever gender you believe, but we know it's not a person. It's many things and that's why we were victimized for not adhering to a larger conformity that was being forced upon us. I listen to non-natives talk. They often don't understand how disrespectful they sound assuming all life isn't valuable. They don't even acknowledge the life in natural things in this world. That's how backwards and consequential the thought process can be. It's not a "light," discussion topic. Unless you are willing to admit how that trait lives in your mind and or heart to this day, you do not have the right to talk about it. That is the position I and many others which share the same belief hold. It wasn't your ancestors that died. It was ours! Were still practicing the same way of life from seven or even eight generations ago! For this we suffer. No other reason other then the fact that we won't conform and bend to a ruler of foreign authority. No Capitalism, patriarchy, nihilism or cynicism can break a ten thousand year old sacred hoop of life. Every time were told were not from here, we just shrug because it's not up to a foreigner to decide our existence. You cannot violently beat & murder other races into submission. We're still here and we will continue to be here until were called back home. Recently, I had a non-native tell me how in every obligatory sense of the word ironic it was for me to occupy "Their," property. In my mind, I understood what they meant, but I was standing on my own ancestral ground. That's how backwards people's mind & thoughts are. They really believe they own the grass or the wind. It is why I use the picture of the sun in this article. The saying is "Nothing can hide from the sun," or "No lie is hidden." If your entire belief system is based on untruth, it's going to be a very difficult existence. The classification of race is a made up thing. We don't believe in a "Blood Quantum." I believe the earth rotates this way and the stars are moving that way. If the creator had meant for me to believe something else, I'd believe it, but since time immemorial it's always been the same. That is truth. It is true that life isn't easy for anyone. It is true that we are born and we will die. These things are natural and they are a part of something "Bigger," than ourselves. It's undeniable, it's obvious. Although, I'm typing on an electronic keyboard attached to a digitally electronic device to communicate, I'm not doing anything different then my ancestors. I'm telling the same story and it won't change just because I live in a post industrial revolutionized world or a technologically advanced society. Truth is truth. When I look inward into my own heart & mind, I see clear, but out here where everything is outside of myself, my eye's can hardly believe what they're seeing and my ears cannot understand what I am hearing. Everyday, someone is talking about something they have no idea what it is they're talking about, but they're talking like it's the truth. People are listening and I just think to myself, Ignorance is bliss." It's then that I realize, it's not so much ignorance, but intelligence or lack of. Education comes in many forms. There isn't just one way to learn. There are several means to communicate. Blind people learn. Deaf people learn. People who cannot talk or walk learn. In fact, nearly every infant born starts out with the same functioning ability to learn. It's a natural thing. There are exceptions I'll admit, but in general everyone is the same. It's what happens along the way that impacts each and everyone's ability to learn. So then, why do people with working eyes say they don't see things the same way or hear the same thing? It's because they become influenced by someone else telling them what they're seeing isn't true or hearing. Then they convince them that something else is true which isn't usually correct, but it benefits the person who is working at influencing another person. I believe that's why we rely on our own language of communication that has been passed down from one generation to the next because we do this in an effort to provide our understanding of things. We support one another in that we share the same beliefs. It sustains us and guides us in ways of understanding everything around us. That was the threat that foreign invaders interpreted that they needed to take away from us. They're still trying to do it today by watching our ceremonies and trying to learn our practices, so that they can distort and contort them to mean something else. Our history belongs to us and this earth. Today we see that by doing things to the earth, we're suffering. Not just us but everyone on this earth is suffering because of it. That is when "Truth," becomes reality. That is why we've never changed from our belief system or tried to adopt foreign influences into our life. That's real. It's what sustains our survival. We don't go out of our way to tell other cultures and ethnicity groups to change. We just watch and learn from them. It's like a mythical figure in our legends and our cultural teaching that we learn "What not to do," by observing it. All the violence, all the death, all the hate is not new to us. We've observed it. Our ancestors experienced it. Our prophets foretold it. As for myself, I believe it and it's my truth. So for a person who wants to hold a discussion about it without ever experiencing it, I feel like it's unoriginal. You don't have to listen to me because I'm just a person, but my eyes work and I do on occasion hear perfectly fine. It's just that I'm selective with the things I believe, I want natural order. The creator has provided everything we need, as people. Did God not say, "Let there be light?" Our creation stories are the same. Does the earth, the moon and the stars still hold the same position they've held for thousands if not millions of years? So then, how can a single invention of man erase all of that? Let me rephrase it because man has invented something that can erase all of human life, but can it move the sun or the stars? The answer is no. Debate it a hundred times over and the answer is still no. So we are not powerful as God or the creator of everything. We are just a tiny speck of dust compared to everything around us. That's the truth. The problem is that somewhere, someone is trying to convince someone else by way of means of influence that black is not a color, it's the absence of light which is true, but not correct. Black is not a color, it's every color. Just like darkness isn't the absence of light. It's every color with no Sun to show you the color. Empty isn't a state in space, it's the opposite of full. There's so many things in space you cannot count them all. It's just so big, it appears empty. It's what I meant when I say spelling and writing. Knowledge is perspective. If you have the correct perspective, you can acquire knowledge from the things you observe, but if you believe you already know everything there is to know about a place or a people, we'll then you cannot learn anything. That is why I started out by objecting to people outside the realm of understanding the problem of boarding school death, discussing it. It's the point I'm trying to make that you cannot understand something unless you put yourself in the right perspective. In this case, you have to understand that if you're not a victim or a survivor of the genocide or have same genealogy in common as someone who does, don't attempt to think you can take on this subject unless your willing to admit or accept the truth. The truth is the whole thing is barbaric and the people who justify the means and the end of the entire subject by claiming that they were facilitating assistance in any way, shape or form are straight out lying to themselves if they believe it. That's their business. I won't tell anyone what to believe, but if you think you're going to go outside and show me graves of little children under a clear blue sky and try to justify it, I will tell you to your face that's ignorance. From the get go, my people were lied to. They signed treaties and stopped fighting and still they were killed. It's the most deceptive atrocity known to man. I'm all about telling it like it is, but many people will say, "what about the Holocaust?" or "what about Slavery?" Yeah, I'll admit those are terrible to, but that didn't happen to me and my people. I can only talk about something I am directly affected by which I pointed out is still happening to this day. It's not in the past if it's still happening right now all over this continent. It can't be swept away if it's still possible that it will happen in the future. You can't look me in the face while were standing in the sun and tell me it's "Dark outside," because that isn't true. It might be dark, but it's not the absence of light, it's because you refuse to admit the truth. That is how were different and I have facts on my side without even bringing up diabetes, Heart disease, pollution, poverty and other avoidable circumstances that only exist existentially for my people. This country was founded on the Lie that Christopher Columbus thought he landed in India and it just got worse from there. We don't perpetuate or believe in these lies, we know and understand history. Tell me when you look around and see people who say things like, "Indians don't pay taxes," or, "they have Casinos," do you really believe that's a trade off for being hundreds of millions in numbers to hundreds of thousands? When we have numbers supporting the fact that our numbers are still dying at a rate of ten times the average person, do you still think it's because were all Alcoholic? IF you believe these things then I feel sorry for you because what a government and a country can do to the least of us, they can do to all of us. Wars never ended for us. Were still living it everyday, it's just hidden away from others with lies and admission "if," it is still happening, it doesn't effect you. I'll attempt to describe to you how it affects you or the one's you love, but I don't expect you to understand if it isn't happening to you or anyone you know. That's how reality works for most people. If it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't exist. Let me explain things this way, if a storm is happening on the East coast and you live on the West coast do you care? An intelligent answer is, "It depends." It depends if it's a strong storm. It depends on which way weather patterns are moving, but most importantly it depends on how much you know about weather. For the most part, storms don't usually move from east to west and that was the first point I'm trying to communicate about something obvious. Second, a storm is usually an isolated incident otherwise people refer to them, as "weather patterns." SO there you go! Something simple that seems obvious, but isn't really when you take the time to think about it. No one does that anymore. We live in an age where if you can't form an opinion in a minute or so then it's to long winded to be understood. Pardon the pun, but it is intentional. I'm describing the overall mindset of someone sitting there thinking, "I can discuss the atrocity in detail of another people and believe I can summarize it." I think, "Really, you can somehow imagine how horrific it must be to have your own child taken from you and being told that they are being educated, but instead they were murdered?" You can imagine that? I can't even imagine it and I'm apart of the people who were targeted. My people still to this day are suffering from it, but I should listen to you or someone else who it never happened to? When I first heard the words, "Generational Trauma," I wanted to reject the idea. I was like, no. I'm not accepting anything that makes or describes my people as weak. That was my pride that was rejecting it. The more I thought about it, the more questions I started asking. Someone explained to me that it's not like were talking 1800's some boarding schools were open in the 60's. I was taken back to memories of people my parents age and started thinking about some of the unexplainable fear and or distress I witnessed and how it affected my understanding about what people were going through. I realized my own confusion is a form of generational trauma, so then I wanted to know more about this. I wanted to know how it appeared to manifest itself everywhere and all at once. It is a bit unexplainable, but when you remove all influential aspects and opinions, the only explanation is quite heinous. Consider something simple like the story of Cain & Able, They both appease the lord, but the lord only favors one's sacrifice. What type of deity would show favor to one of its children, but not the other? It's a parable. Meaning, it's not a question, but a statement. It's a statement about nature. In the opening of human history, we see a violent murder of one brother on another. That is the legacy of religious teaching that eventually travels all the way down through time until it reaches my land and my people. I was raised in this knowledge. I know it. I've come to realize that as a vessel of communication, I must share these words to provide context. The context is that evil exists and we must choose to turn away from it. Well, with all the discussion I've lent to guide a reasonable person to accept reality as truth, I've come to be in the position of influencer. Remember what I've said about the subject. People use influence to make other people not see the truth or to at least disguise and or confuse others about their own concept. This is not my intention. If anything, I'd like to help people understand that an atrocity affects us all. When you’re a part of a group, you tend to sympathize with concerns of the group. Well, being human makes us all a part of a group that it doesn't matter what race or ethnicity, background, culture or belief system we share, were all human beings. These are the type ideas that my people believe that we have a responsibility to each other. Were responsible for those that cannot speak for themselves and the protection of the helpless. These are the same concepts mentioned in the bible and I believe it's because ancient knowledge is shared throughout history in a livable example through actions more then words. You see, my people never needed a bible to know right from wrong. Just like the bible, we have our own stories, myths and legends. Why would it be that an all powerful god would only pick one people and share with them the secrets of the universe? Again, any manufactured evidence a person can attempt to bring is littered with motivation of agenda, influence, but most of all dominant inherit ant traits of self preservation. That is what it really comes down to. People will say anything to re-enforce a belief system that they already possess. So when they encounter a whole civilized continent of other people, they declare, "these people are not human." Given that was over five hundred years ago, what's the excuse today? We've got wifi on the reservation. We have access to most of the modern utilities. We understand your language and culture or there lack of. So how can it be in the 21st century, We still fighting the battles of Columbus? Maybe, just maybe, none of the justifiable excuses stick or stuck to this day. Maybe they were just excuses to take our land and remove us from the face of the earth. You know, I probably wouldn't be so adamite if this were all settled history, but it's still happening today. My people are still being victimized today as not actually human. What other explanation is there? Some could sit and read these words and think "Manifesto," or some other type of "Wack-job," lecture, but if I weren't telling the truth, I'd be struggling to find examples to use to prove each and every point I'm trying to make. Sadly, I'm not struggling. There is plenty of evidence. That's what I'm trying to do here is present the circumstance and describe the actual situation that real people experience. When someone from outside of the experience speaks up and say something like, "Hey, we should really take a look at this," I encourage that but when they intend to devise a strategy to go ahead and form a group without including anyone that has first hand experience with the issue, I take issue with it. We have had the MMIWP Missing Murdered Indigenous Women or Person group come together which they did on their own. There is even a main person who started it in a particular location. The point is the statistics support the evidence that it's a problem to be addressed. What I'm doing is saying, "It's more than just that issue." I'm not trying to take anything away from it because it's the number one priority in Indian Country. I'm saying that, "when a person backs up and looks at the bigger picture," you can definitely find evidence that it's not just about at risk individuals, but a constant historical march at eradicating an entire race of people indigenous to this continent. I don't believe you can honestly argue with it. I don't believe anyone in their right mind would choose to argue the point, but in this country they just don't talk about it. People want to put us in the past and take the attitude of "Let's move forward." I think that's good, but how can you move forward if you don't acknowledge the wrong that you're trying to make right? Starting a dialog is good, but saying we don't want to focus on the bad and talk about the good isn't going to do anything. Especially if you have the "Bad," not voiced by the people experiencing it. '

I'm using the present tense of the word experience, meaning we're all still experiencing it. I look out into the world and I see this experience happening. I become confused by it because we have so much beauty in our land and it's in our people's culture & tradition. I think to myself, "How is it taken from us today?" We have all of this rich history and we are still living the way we've lived for thousands of years and yet you can hear the influences that have got us looking in the wrong direction. That is what I think when I see the bigger picture, but I also see something it seems no one ever talks about. I see a bright sun shining down upon us. I see miles and miles of beautiful land before me. I see oceans and rivers full of water life. I see incredible scenery everywhere I look and it’s then that I remember my place in all of this beauty. That's the answer for me. When I see the abundance of positive and good in the world there is no comparison. Sure, there is a lot of suffering everywhere, but it's very small in the comparison to beauty all around us. I will include a small note from a family member asking for support in receiving justice for her sister. This was a beautiful lady whose life was taken in her own home with video surveillance capturing the entire ordeal. To me that speaks as loud as a voice could be possibly heard! Our family is asking for your support in our continued quest to have our Mother's case moved to Federal Court, where it legally should have been placed from the beginning. This movement is one we have requested since August of 2019. We have met with Federal Attorneys, and have their attention. But, so far, have not had a response to our request. My neice, Mya, recorded our testimony that we delivered to the MMIW/P Commission for Secretary of Interior Debra Haaland in Billings, MT last month. We will be sending this to the US Attorney, to Deb Haaland, and the director of the Department of Justice from WA DC. My neice, Sarah’s testimony brought the director of the Department of Justice our table because he was so moved by her speaking. Our goal is to boost it before sending to the Feds so they can see we have community support and traction. Please “like” and “comment” on the YouTube video to boost it. That way when it arrives to the Feds they see many people/family/loved ones are also hurt by the lack of response. Thank you for your support. Please feel free to share. Our love & thanks, The Teo Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_Gdh8U0TM

Cloaked No Dagger

In effot to find something to write about, I think I found a trenchcoat. It appears to fit and so I will "discover," the amenities of wearing a Trenchcoat. I'm using the article of clothing to signify "embitterment." The way I see things right now, people cloak themselves in Flags and rituals, calling themselves "patriot," and "tru believers," all the while trampling the rights of others. I call this, "cloaking." It's akin to clutching a dagger and attempting to stab an opposition. I found myself headed in the general direction many times in the last eight years or so, getting wrapped up in the political mayhem that is now the discourse of identity politics. The one place I will not take the battle to is the school yard though. I sit it out when I see parents headed to the classroom to offend or insult educators because of something they read. It was in moments of anger and vitriol that I discovered that "cloaking," is a personal bias device where adults take their anger out on innocent people. You see it in the school board meetings and you sometimes hear it in voices during Parent Teacher meetings. I decided to avoid those type of confrontations for my own sake. I never want to be a person who attacks other people. I have a lot of opinions and there not all positive, but I've somehow managed to keep them to myself or write them and put them away. Well that time is coming to a close. It has to end sometime and I believe I've waited long enough. What has me willing to go out of my way to defend educators now is that all good intentions aside, things have really taken a turn for the worse. Politician have found by scapegoating the public education system that they can steal the resources and use them elswhere. You have to realize that they were doing this all along and it's how wev'e arrived at the point where the discussion is all about privatization. It's not an accident. It was the priority of the last Education Secretary. The seed has been sown and now we are looking down into the abyss. Voucher systems are just that. They take money from public education funding and turn it into education for profit systems. It's being normalized. What your not being told though is that this won't always be free. The idea is to "Dry up," the education funding pool and make it just another corporate utility. Now I ask the question, "How has that worked out for personal security, prisons and policing?" You see the thing is in the war on anything, as in the brand of rhetoric a person subscribes to, there needs to be an enemy. In prison for profit, it's prisoners. Law was made so that drug suspicion would form policies like "Stop & Frisk," which turns into racial profiling and it is the entire end that the means require. It supplies a steady chain of prisoners do be railroaded through a faux-pause court system where public defenders have a majority case load beyond reasonable so they intend to influence every defendent into taking a plea bargain. They pile on the charges and warn the individual that they could face a decade or more if convicted, so that they take a plea and serve two to five years. It's magic and it provides every insititution a quota for all the risk. Lawyers get cases, judges get decisions and profiteers get profit. It's a "Win, win," all the way around, unless of course your a prisoner. Then you get a sentence and a record. All because it was okay to "target," you because you met the description of people being targeted. Imagine being held prisoner for a few years where the main driver of the institution is profit. Now imagine the same system being used in neighborhoods and school systems where everything is poorly funded because the profiteers have already robbed the public funding resource. It's just one big viscious cycle. It goes on for years an no one does anything about it. Eventually you have generations of offenders, profiteers and enforcers. Then one day, someone points out the connection between all these things. They say words like "Prison Pipeline," or something similiar and you as a parent learn and become educated. Then you go into schools and start to work on the behalf of those students that are being targeted and pushed out. Eventually, you get to the point where you need a break because it's so overwhelming and lucky for me, I found that time. The thing that happened next though was so foreign and yet it completely made sense. People rushed in and they planted a flag in the school yard to suffice to say, "This is our war now." "We want people fired. We want to take books out of this school. This is ours!" I saw all of it and went, "okay, I'm fine with it." "Let's see how you do." The thing is though I observed a very different attitude when the educators were once back in the drivers seat handing out expulsions and once again identifying trouble makers. They were filled with glee and the parents were certainly happy with the result, but I kept wandering, "where were all these people when the real heavy lifting had to be done?" Folks never showed up to the rehearsal, but they sure showed up for the awards banquet. I became educated once again in how things work in today's environment and it's why I say, "I'll cloak myself," in the name of protecting students because these folks don't really get it. They don't see what's happening because they're to busy chasing clout in a virtual world. They want to be seen and heard, but they don't know what to say, so there parroting things that they've heard. You can tell because it's "Homo-phobic and transgender issues about the bathroom." It's about books and what type of lessons can be taught in school. It's about No safe spaces. It's the same thing you hear from politicians and trolls on the internet. It has nothing to do with real education and the things that young people are facing. So from my perspective, the attack on the public school system was effective. I believe in order to effectively "strike back," at the current narrative would be to leave the local school and administration out of it. They have yet to prove their trust deserving of public support anyway. All that happened is a few top heads were let go and they shuffled the deck. School is a learning environment with public trust that young students will be educated in modern technology and various employable skills. It's not a factory for prison supply. For this reason, we'll have to take to the legislature once again to see how the guided principles of keeping school about educating students the priority,. That has nothing to do with identity and banning books. It's about giving educators the right tools to form their own environment to inspire and educate young students. The world has changed. Much of modern technology has been around for a couple of decades and most educators are familiar with it. I know most students are definitely familiar with modern technology and communication. I believe it's the common bond that might be able to "break," the outside strangle hold of resources. All things can be done electronically, but in order to do it, you must have a "reasonable," grasp of how students utilize modern devices and by what "means," do their communications travel. In order to do that you have to have an environment for them to flourish in. Think of a modern "Google," campus or any "Start up," facility. Design and environment are important. The way that information flows and is shared among groups which include several different levels. In any strategy, there is "Buy In," to the core values represented in a learning environment. "Value," has to be easy to identify. Margins of progress need to be measured in a visible format. People need to feel productive and valued within groups. This is the way I see young people learning today and into the future. It might be wholly "ironic," that I'm saying the only way to bring in the identity of the volunteer student, is to push away the profiteer mechanism, but keep the technology driven part of the system, but I know it can be done. I've observed this everywhere but here. In other places, it's not boards and committees that decide the best setting for education, but labs & specialists. It's people who work within the realm of technology that cross over into other areas. People like me who can marry the idea that what we have and what we don't are kind of the same thing. It's not so much resources, but what kind. I ask, "what is the intent? "What are the Pillars?" and "What is the vision, we see in education?" Do you see rows and rows of desks in darkly lit corridors with locked doors at the end of hallways? Or do you see lush greenery and open spaces that lend to an openess and a sense of community? You don't get there by "banning Books," or policing bathrooms. You get there by sharing a sense of purpose. Standards are a way of ridding the education system of the wanna be "influencers," and providing a mechanism for a new era of learning. When I think about these standards, "I think about the Great Depression and what ended it. It was World War and the fact that the Industrialized revolution swept in a new era of development. Out went the old archaic, but familiar standards of education. When you look at education today, it's not that different from the 30's the 50's and 60's. We still have six period days and the physical education. Heck, I just learned that my local school doesn't even have a library, so banning books shouldn't be a problem, but the rest of the principles are still in place. Sure some of the attendance systems have been modernized and don't get me started about the automated voice messaging systems, but class is still one teacher and thirty students. That's never sat right with me. Have you ever tried to organize and keep order in a room of thirty people, much less rebelious teenagers? Learning should be fun for both teacher and student. Most systems I've witnessed are just modern day prison systems already. You have the modern day detention system. You have the incremental award system. You have the zone to zone control of what student belongs in what area. You feed them, cloth them and send them on their way, but what are you really teaching? Are you teaching that if they follow rules they will not be punished? Because that's what most modern public schools look like to me. Seems like we can break it into three distinct areas no matter what grade were discussing. You have your "Good students." These are the assimilated individuals that raise their hand and turn in assignments. They do well on tests and pop quizees because they're always being rewarded. Then you have the average students who get C's and B- grades. They could be good students, but the bribery just doesn't work that great on them. Most of the time they've lost desire to appease the reward system because they have no faith in it. Then you have your failing students. These are the "Trouble-makers," and the students identified to be put into detention and or expelled. In my experience, these three groups all start out as one group and over time, they've been identified and more or less forced in the specific area of experience. The real drastic thing that is happening here is it's "Ends justify the means," situation. What happens when you finish school? Do all the rewarded students go out in life and become "instantly succesful?" The answer is "No." Do the middle of the road students try to enter college and fail immediately? Again, the answer is no. My biggest concern is that schools fail students so they don't have to deal with them anymore and that leads to a society where you have different classes. In reality, were all in the same class in life. You have your poor middle class and your less poor middlle class. People in the top class or "rich," people, usually stay rich. Did they get there because they did well in school? Not really. Most are generational wealth recipience. They have wealth because their family has wealth. These wealthy people make up the smallest percentage of the population and yet they have all of the power in society. If you don't believe me just go outside and look at how many wealthy people are being pulled over by the police or stripped searched in public. They have no exposure to to the policing that the rest of us are used to. IF rich people have students that get in trouble at school, they go to the school and complain about how much money they give to the school. If a rich person gets pulled over for speeding they get out of their car and cuss out the policeman. If they go to court, they have their expensive attorney get them out of trouble. For the rich it's all about cost of doing business that the rest of us never experience. So when it comes to public schools that rich people do not support, why are we using old antiquated rules and philosophy driven control systems that rich people created to accumulate wealth? I believe it's time for all of us in the middle class to recognize that the system isn't created with equality in mind. It's time for us to figure out how can we start to achieve something lasting that might develop our stage in life. Does it mean your student will make it to an Ivy League college? Probably not because those institutions are meant for the Rich. I can hear it now, "But lower class people make it through those systems sometime." Your right, sometime they do, but not very often. The whole idea is to provide a record which if you want to change the way things are, recognize the structure of education, especially Public education. Rich schools don't have the same curriculum, as public education. They have elite education. They have the most advanced companies in the world on their boards and providing all of the funds and other influence to get them what they need to provide the best education. You mean to tell me with all of the big institutions in America, we can't find any that want to invest in our public education system? I find that hard to believe because most "New," companies have owners that weren't rich. They had to go out and find investors and convince them to provide funding. This what is happening with Private Enterprise Educations systems. The difference is now they need the legal pathway to overtake public education and with congress people and state representatives in their pocket, they'll get it. They're a whole lot more of us than there are of them. We're voters. We can change the people who represent us and change the way public education works. That is why I say it begins in the legislative area. We have to tell our representatives to say no to taking funds for charter and private schools because they already have the resources they need and let us use "Our," resources to do the exact same thing they're asking. It's not a super hard or complex idea. It's easy if you open your eyes. Otherwise were just going to remain where were at. Charter and Private schools aren't even that much of a step up. They're just for profit schools. They have better Teachers because they're paid better. If we had access to the same resources, public school could be the same thing. People will say, "No, it cannot be the same. It's a public school." I bet those folks that say that don't send their students to public school though. The whole idea is to recognize how these things happen and how they can be changed. It changes through demand. In World War II America needed production workers to make planes and tanks and other manufacturing goods that could be used to supply the Allied Forces. Those plants turned into manufacturing for America. It's a blue print for Jobs, economy and labor force. Well, a lot has changed since then, but American Public education hasn't. America makes virtually nothing anymore. It's all financial and insurance market. Other than Hosptiality Services and Government Jobs, all we have is the "Gig economy," and "Start Ups." If the basic economy worker is about to be replaced by a machine, then let us choose what our next economy will be based on. Right now, all America manufactures is Outrage that's why we have people going into schools and attacking people in schools. The systems always been outdated. It hasn't changed in almost a hundred years. Sure, we have STEM, so why isn't the entire curriculum built around it? People might say, "Oh we need Writers and speech delivery persons to provide messaging," so hire them. It would help a lot more than having a bunch of grass and bushes you can't use at school. You have "In house," hospitality majors right in front of you. If the jobs of taking care of the school were done by students and not some over-paid union worker, you'd have a nice looking school. Kitchen and Culinary Arts, right in front of you there is a class there. That's what they do at the Big Schools. People have such a closed mind about desks with rows and books, my god the books. Nobody even uses a book anymore because everyone has a computer. I believe most of the School functions around an economy and a production environment created in the mid fifties. Tell me I'm wrong. School literally functions like a government and we all know how unproductive that is. People will say, "Oh the Teachers Union will take you to task." My reply, "Hey guess what? without students you don't have anyone to teach to." We all witnessed that during Covid. Why do you think they switched to the remote learning environment? There are literally hundreds of ways to improve education. It's just a status quo thing. People have to be pushed out of the comfort of the status quo and if we let the maniacs and the mentally challenged adults have their way, we will see change one way or another.

Bean Bag Identity Politics

"This isnt about school choice or special ed, this is about keeping groomers, anti-white race gangsters and pedophiles away from our kids." The state of Nuclear Politics and how it effects actual everyday life is right there between the quotes. When I first read the sentence, I was like, "Yeah, I see your point." But then I sort of slowed down my reading and read it again. If my eyes and brain don't deceive me, this guys saying, "Groomers, gangsters and pedophiles are all one." If your not paying attention, "anti-white race gangsters," is saying anyone not white. That's how I had to read it again, but slower. It's amazing how the stereo type and bias is being so easily implemented. Lumping anything not white is the standard, seems like a way to miss alot of obvious things. I don't have statistics in front of me, but I don't believe we need to gather stats here to understand the sentiment. This guy and many like him are charging forth with the "Racism," slogan using other subjects such as homosexuality or transgender in the "in-between," the lines approach. It's no secret that that's the White supremacy "playbook." Then consider what he compared it to, "School choice," and "special education." I have a couple concerns with this proposition. If I get it right. The guy is saying, "you don't get a school choice or any special exemption for special education because I'm the white guy who say's no because of pedophilia?" Seems like an awfully large hill to stand on. I don't condone sexual metaphorically inuendo that condones the newer type of relaxed tolerance, but when you compare it to "everyone is guilty because they're not white," it doesn't leave me much room to stand on that super large hill of a subject. How is that even possible? The thing is these type of "defending freedom," antics are everywhere. It's what is being used for a very large country to invade a small country. It's being used to promote gun violence and racial hatred. I'm no scientist, political or otherwise, but capturing every grievence possible and throwing it under the banner of "white is right," seems like a pretty big leap and how fast it happened. It's almost like it was always sitting there waiting to come out. I think if we really want to work at being some sort of progressive society, no matter what that looks like, we need to acknowledge that the "Fire brand racial rhetoric," doesn't fit inside of the scope of learning to live in peace side by side. This guy and I'm seeing much more expressions like this is suggesting not only is it right, but "let's put it into schools or use the school as the battleground." Thing is, I know where that comes from. That's evangelical as it gets right there. That sort of Geo-political Christian slant approach coincides with the beginning of this country in North America. The problem with it though if I can speak about it, is that it was genocide. When you honestly look at these issues, no matter if they're education, government, corporate sponsorship, banking and other factors where there is this push to embrace tolerance and then a opposition, you have to ask yourself what is at the root of the struggle? America was founded on the idea that equality would exist no matter the creed or descendency. That is what our founders intended and yet were hearing the "Christian Nation," and the "under God," point of view of an argument. I don't have a problem with Christian value or principle, as long as it truly represents a charitable posture of helping those in need and protecting the innocent. But when you insert "Vitriol & Hatred," into your attempt to uphold what is normally considered "Christian Values," your changing the spirit of the action. Your attacking people and committing genocide no matter how well intentioned the action. That is clear. It's established history. So if were going to go on into trying to work towards a more perfect, "Union," then we need to consider that there are different points of view encapsulated in the idea. A full spectrum isn't concentrated on eradication of all other colors that aren't white. White is a term that was made up. It was a term invented to identify people, but not of race and or ethnicity. It was a class identifier that is long been outdated. So just as we wouldn't reference carts and buggies as mode of transportation, why would we be associating ideas that need "freedom," to flourish with an antiquated idea? Education means to learn and to learn one must explore it's environment and landscape. Needless to say in that scenario there are ideas about numerous "humane," circumstances that exist. Just like Poverty exists. Discrimination exists and violence exist, we wouldn't imagine ourselves inside of a bubble saying those things don't exist and then expect to learn how to overcome them. That's the whole point of education. It's meant to instruct and give children tools to solve problems in the world. Genocide happened! World Wars happened! 9/11 Happened! It might not be America's greatest moments, but these things happened. They are fact. Attacking your own history and your own problem solving method isn't a recipe to grow and overcome the obstacles that exist. It's bound to ensure the opposite of progress. So if that's what were talking about. If that's the reality that people honeslty choose violence over tolerance, don't call it protecting because it's rooted in violence. That's not Christian. It's not a Christian act. Missions of Christian theoretical ambassador or stewardship are most pronounced when they reflect the actual teaching of it's founder. Taking something by force through inhiliation is not that. We need to say it out loud when people claim to be going into the education system and attacking those individual students that they don't agree with for whatever reason, that it's violence against children. Your not a Martyr when you commit violence. That isn't in the bible. I could imagine thousands if not millions ripping out the pages of scripture to show me exactly where there getting this word for word, but a truly self-loving and community building individual would immediately understand the concept that emphasizes the best qualities in humanity. Violence is not the best quality and the fact that children understand it and are making our institutions recognize it, give me hope for the world. All these would be Martrys need to really consider the self grandiose nature of the rhetoric they're spouting. That's your "bubble. " You live inside that bubble with many others and yes, I acknowledge your right to do that, but it's the reason we have laws. Freedom is protected when you get to be in your own bubble, but when you come out of the bubble to stand on solid ground, we're all equal and the law protects me and others, no matter if you agree or not. When you attack in the name of things that aren't within the idea of what this nation stands for then you are wrong. It's obvious. A Public school is public. If you don't want people of all creeds and backgrounds to defend the innocent students in a public school, send your kids to a private one. Isn't that what were told on mutiple levels in society? If we, "don't like it, we can leave and come back where we came from." Unfortunately, I'm indigenous to this nation's land. Therefore, without an alternative or a foreign land to return to, I must stand and point out that the Constituion of this country is based on my people's idea of democracy. I hear arguments that were not a democracy, we're a Republic. Okay, I'll listen. We're not a monarchy or a dictatorship. The words we live by are in the spirit of democracy. The spirit of freedom. The founders vowed to escape Tyranny and Rule! Here's the thing, people say "Woke Mob," and Antifa. They say BLM and LGBTQ. Those are just names invoked to indentify an enemy. Human beings who are citizens of this country are not your enemy. Little children in school are not your enemy! If your looking around and finding everything and everyone, as your enemy, I say you should go look into a mirror because you're getting these ideas from somewhere. I suggest you look. That's a Christian principle. "Let you who is without sin, cast the first stone." We have children on the Board of Education in the State of Montana speaking on the behalf of their peers that are making more sense and being better leaders than the actual leaders of Montana. In the bible, it say's "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," and "Blessed are the Peacemakers for they will be called children of god." Do I really need to keep going? We're talking about children. I have children. I was a child. I remember what it was like. I don't exactly remember adults behaving like they do today, but I was kid. I don't know if they were threatening schools and threatening people inside. I never witnessed anything. As an adult though, things have gotten really different. I'm a parent. I have the concerns every parent has. I'm a Christian. I have the same concerns every Christian has. The thing that separates me from others is I'm indigenous and my children are indigenous to this land where the country we live in sits. My ancestors looked after the land before it became a country, so I have a little different insight into what i'm witnessing today. That Race card has been played before many, many times. It's the kind of thing that happens when a sound argument cannot be expressed. In Montana, they're using "Parental Rights," to fuse together social and religious belief. It is the reason I'm talking about Christian values and the element of White supremacy hiding behind it. They want, "Prohibition, " of certain images and words removed from the classroom. Parents Rights In Education (PRIE) a national organization has the focus of Critical Race Theory and wants constrained sex education in schools. There are two books found in Montana education libraries that have the title "Lawn Boy," and "Gender Queen," that they want removed. The initial concern was with a book titled, "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian," by Sherman Alexie. I know Sherman Alexie. He lived in the house across road on a small reservation in Eastern Washington near a town called Wellpinit. My childhood friend whose grandparents we used to visit in the tiny rural area of the Spokane Indians, used to play with Sherman when we visited. I doubt he remembers me. We were just a bunch of little Indian kids, but Sherman grew up to become an author and a book he wrote, "Tonto and Lone Ranger Fist fight in Heaven," was the basis of a movie that was later titled, "Smoke signals." I'm not exactly sure what the problem is with the book. But I know the legal verbage that Montana has with school policy is, "Individuals may be instructed or compelled to apologize for their race or forced to admit privilege based on race." Not only that, but advisory groups pushing for change have a problem with the word, "Equity." The word equity has been used in education for a very long time which makes sense since it is the defnition of the word. There was a debate and some how that word is tied to protection for students with disability and Native American Students. This is guided by the Education Act which is a nation wide application that supports the least restrictive environment for student learning. I won't get into it now, but I'll explain it further, as I switch to the State of Washington and my own experience with these laws and legal description. What you need to know is that equity is introduced and tied to the phrase "Institutional Racism." There was a study or a thesis at the Doctoral and Masters level in education that talks about these things which boils down to the current debate of "Critical Race Theory." Now Critical Race Theory or CRT for short isn't taught in intermediate education or even High School or Junior High education, but just like mentioned above, the words are, "Individuals may be instucted or compelled,.." continued, "admit privilege based on race." That's where were at. It hasn't happened. Students might be compelled to. You see what I'm trying to describe here? Just the mention of fact and true history is a threat. I wanted you to know the under-lying motivation before I even got to the point of explaining these things, so you would understand why I said, "it was always sitting there waiting to come out." Racism is a theory of discrimination based on race which is illegal. These groups are claiming that they are being discriminated against based on race besides two hundred and fifty years or more that states otherwise. Imagine that bubble I mentioned. In that buuble, you are the victim of discrimination based on race because someone might refer to history and compell you to admit your privilege based on race. Do you see what is happening here? Logic is upside down. People who aren't white are the perpetraitors of discrimination because they follow a law that prohibits discrimination. So up is down and right is left and the majority is a minority! That's the logic despite the facts, records, laws and history. Which leads me to this point. Perspective is a personal thing. It's the bubble that I'm talking about. It's not just one groups bubble. We all have our own bubble. Thing is though, education & school has it's own bubble to. That's the bubble were talking about. In that bubble is where I dedicated and committed and am accountable for years of work in these areas for my own State of Washington. In our Bubble, or more procisely in Indian Education in Washington, we used culture & language as the root of our understanding to History, Equity, Disability, Special Education and or Equality in the learning environment. We built relationships with other Tribes and a got our legislature to pass laws that would recognize the things I've mentioned, as student support for learning and that's why I said, "I'll explain it later for laws & descriptions in the State of Washington." This didn't happen overnight. It took decades for it to happen. It took cooperation at the national level. It took trial and error and countless School Board Meetings, Parent Teacher Meetings, administration meetings. I even meet with a focus group called State Design Team for special education that operates under the Superintendent of public schools in the state. I've read studies and met with professors of all races and ethnicities. I've "test-drove," entire "turn-key," computer educational systems to understand how they work and to provide feedback to government departments and private institutions. I've personally sat in "quarrels," at the intermediate, Junior high and High School level to get an understanding where students perspective is and where educator perspective is, as well as administration. I've involved myself in the business of education. To have all of it erased because someone might be compelled to admit a privilege is astonishing to me and I see it as in itself an even higher level of privilege. I don't have any enemies in all of this. I don't see my friends or colleagues of different backgrounds, as the "other side." We're all in it for the student. We do it for the future. To me it's super crazy to think during my life time that I might be inconvienced or slightly uncomfortable, so that I might insist that everyone else should change what their thinking or what words they use, so i might be comfortable. But that's the logic prevalent today.