I Don’t Need a Great Brown Father
by David A. Yeagley
Originally published at FrontPageMagazine.com | April 11, 2001
Government officials used to tell the Indians to trust in the Great White Father. Unfortunately, the Great White Father didn’t always prove trustworthy. But, after awhile, we learned to live with him.
Now there is a new ‘father" vying for the Indian’s loyalty – the Great Brown Father.
In a previous article "Dont Burn My Flag," I wrote about a movement among radical leftwing Mexicans bent on separating the Southwest from the United States.
These "hostiles" claim that our Southwest is really Aztlan, ancestral home of the Aztecs. They say many southwestern Indian peoples of America, such as the Shoshone, speak languages belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family, which also includes the Aztec language.
Since we’re all "related," these Mexican separatists say, we North American Indians should welcome a Mexican takeover of our land.
Uh-huh.
The Great White Father pulled some fast ones on us. But I don’t think he ever tried anything quite this slick.
With 33 million Mexicans now living north of the Rio Grande, Mexican power is a reality.
"California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave," says Mario Obledo, a southwest Hispanic activist.
Art Torres, head of the California Democratic Party, said Proposition 187, the measure that banned illegal aliens from benefits, was "the last gasp of white America in California."
Past president of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo said, "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders."
As a Comanche, I watch these proceedings much as my ancestors watched the wagon trains moving west – with bow in hand.
Many tyrants have used ties of kinship to try to lure people into slavery. Hitler said that all Europeans who spoke "Germanic" languages were brothers, and should be joined in one great Reich.
But what if they didn’t want to join? Hitler ended up invading, annexing, bombing or terrorizing virtually every "Germanic" country in Europe, including Denmark, Holland, England, Norway and Austria.
The Japanese used a similar ploy. Before World War II, they stirred up anti-white feelings among their Asian neighbors by blasting propaganda about "Asia for the Asians."
When Japanese bombers attacked Rangoon, many Burmese cheered them in the streets, delighted that the British were being routed by fellow Asians.
But soon the Great Yellow Father showed his dark side.
Natives of occupied countries had to bow to passing Japanese. If they didn’t, they were slapped in the face or beaten.
If you were caught without your proper ID, the dreaded kempeitai, Japanese police, would pull out your fingernails.
In Batavia, the Japanese hoarded all the food. When starving natives raided the warehouses, they were killed and their heads displayed on poles.
In China’s Kiangsu province, some 20,000 Chinese men were marched out of the city and used for bayonet practice, mowed down by machine guns, or doused with gasoline and burned alive. The women were raped, mutilated and murdered. The "Rape of Nanking," it was called.
That’s what the Japanese meant by "Asia for the Asians."
Then there is South Africa. Everything was supposed to be dandy, once the whites stepped down and turned over power to the Great Black Father.
Well, here’s what former South African president Nelson Mandela is saying now, according to a March 3, 2001 article in The Telegraph:
"Little did we suspect that our own people, when they got a chance, would be as corrupt as the apartheid regime. That is one of the things that has really hurt us."
What was Mandela talking about? According to our liberal press here in the States, everything is hunky dory down in South Africa.
"Some Africans have made mistakes," said Mandela. "They now throw their weight about as a majority. There are some Africans who inspire fear in the minorities."
Throwing their weight around? Putting the minorities in fear? Isn’t that what the white people were doing before? Guess we’d better bring back those international sanctions.
Since my article against Mexicans burning the American flag, some Mexican separatists have e-mailed me personally, telling me that, as an Indian, I should side with them.
Sorry, folks, but you’re talking to the wrong Indian.
In the 1770s, Don Carlos Fernandez and his Mexican militia slaughtered 300 Comanche men, women and children in a surprise attack at dawn. We got them back though. We ran them off Comanche land, and they didn’t come back for a long, long time.
If these separatists want a showdown, we’re ready for it. Great Brown Father indeed!
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