A quick show of hands---how many of you are from here? No, not like---were you born here? I mean how many of you are from here?
Okay, I’ll give you a hint. I see all these blond, blue-eyed rednecks driving around with bumper stickers that read “Native Texan.” And I think, “Really.” “You don’t look like me.”
Let me explain. These white people don’t look like me, Mexican. They don’t look Native American. So just how does that make them a “native” of this land? We've been in Afghanistan for almost a decade as terrorist-occupiers. Does that make us Native Afghanis? I’m just saying.
No dudes. You are not native “Texans” any more than wearing boots means you are some how a rancher or farmer or even a cowboy. The Africans and Mexicans are doing all that work for you. But by the way, maybe because you aren’t from here (think rent cars, hotel rooms) you sure have managed to fuck it up big time. I’m just saying.
The fact that you European and British terrorist exploiters have been occupying these lands almost as long as you have occupied the Middle East doesn’t make you a native.
You want your country back??? Which one---England, Germany, Austria, Poland, Ireland????
You are the same hateful, mean-sprited people a/ka/ Tea Partiers, Libertarians and reactionary Gopers who want to keep out the people who truly are native to this land. Dudes, what is your problem?
Don’t believe me? Guess you missed the Rand Paul giddy gaff. Here’s the link. On live television the senate nominee says the 1964 Civil Rights Act went “too far.” It was a giddy—if racist, bigoted moment of letting the mask slip so we could peek at the monster behind the curtain and he’s not the “great and powerful wizard of oz.”
Well let’s see. Blacks and Mexicans in 1964 were:
Harassed if they tried to vote, even after paying a poll tax---by a Supreme Court Chief Justice to be
Unable to sit at most public lunch counters in America (and expect to be served)
Had segregated “Coloreds” facilities from movie houses to rest rooms and swimming pools
Still fighting to sit at the front of the bus
Just newly integrated in the military
Still attending “separate but equal” apartheid public education system schools
Starting to die in, pardon the expression, spades in Vietnam along with Mexicans and poor whites
Living in largely segregated-by-design cities
And what--- a mere century (100 years) since Blacks had been freed to find jobs and pay taxes? Hell, they had only been slaves here since 1607.
Mexicans and the other indigenous peoples of the southern part of North America and parts south had only been under the boot of European/British terrorist-occupiers for half a millennia---that’ s 500 years to you Bubba. What is all the fuss about? (and “about” is spoken as if it had at least three syllables).
Speaking of less taxes and smaller “government” maybe the white guy/libertarian/terrorist-occupiers are on to something. I could spare myself a lot of taxes if we got rid of farm and ranch subsidies. At the same time it would level the global playing field for farmers. Without subsidies the farmers and ranchers wouldn’t need roads so we could stop building and maintaining farm to market roads. Think how much that will save in taxes! It’s enough to make your head spin.
Wait; let’s get rid of one of the really big “government” give-aways, the real welfare mothers and cheats---the military and the military-industrial comlex! Now we’re talking really big bucks.
To make “government” really small I think all “smaller government” people who win elections this Fall should give up their salary, entitlements, perks and even the office they’ve just won. That would save a passle of money, lighten the tax burden and reduce the size of government. That would only be right.
If these “less government” folks assume office just how did that reduce the size of government? I’m just saying.
Then again they’re doing what the real Natives of this land always called them on, “speaking with forked tongue.”
More: George Carlin on Democracy
America the Beautiful
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