In one weeks time, 25 June 1876, I will celebrate the anniversary of the day Custer died for this country's sins...
...so engraved onto and intertwined into my DNA, I can sense and smell the date approaching.
Too bad we did not have more Custer's, to kill that day. Who by the way, was not a General the day he had his life handed over to him and the 7th's two hundred or so subordinates...
...too bad their numbers were not two thousand - because they all would've perished that day. All would have been butchered good and proper like. The Rank and File suffered agonizing deaths that day. Not-The-General Custer, was killed yes, but was left as he fell. What was done to them - the soldiers, was what they had done to the peoples of nation after nation's of Native Americans. The entirety of that day did not and would not change the process of assimilation or extermination. If anything, it made matters worse.Too bad more blue uniforms did not fall in this battle that day.
The "all" of that day...
...the revenge.
The all of which was, the might haves and could have been's those few minutes, that day, could not minutely begin to scratch the surface of what the White Man, the U.S. of A. and this countries peoples were permitted to do to the Indian Nations. The wanton open mass killings, the slaughter of entire villages. Every Man, Woman and Child were marked for an immediate extermination...
...entire Nation's. Entire Culture's. Entire Language's. Butchered. Wiped out and off the surface of this planet, our Earth Mother. Actions sanctioned by "Uncle Sam"...
...as if I speak of a pack of mad Wolves. No, I write this about our Kinfolk, Kindred and Relations, our neighbours, friends and lover's. It really was as if the White Folk turned on the Indian, in mass. Like a dog goes mad and turns on his human companion.
No, I don't have an ounce of regret for that day. If any one, it would be that there were not twelve Custer's there that gorgeous sunny day. It is my belief, this country has not yet seen or has had to face the consequences of what the "population" was permitted to do to the Native Americans, who lived here first. For thousands of years before a light skinned foot landed on any shore. Our fellow Human Spirit's, the Native American Indian lived and prospered here. I think so too, that neither has this country paid the price for what was perpetrated against the Black People's of Africa. Kidnapped from their homes, their very Home Lands and Country's, shipped here in catastrophic conditions and treated in inhumane manners that would horrify today's common sense and sensibility's. These People's were brought here in chains. Against their Will's. To be "sold" as slaves and to suffer genocide - generation after generation...
...and the genocide continues...
...against the Native American Nation's and to the Black People's of America. The People's of Colour are included in this communique. Oh yes, are you aware that Native Americans were once "sold" as slaves?
An irony just slapped me against the skull. You see, we celebrate Ellis island and what it stands for as a national treasure, yet we perpetrate and perpetuate hate against our own People's.
My God, may justice be served already?
God save The President! Long Live The Queen!
May Custer die again and again and again and again...
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