A“… That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian …” — Bobby Fischer, 2005 and as a descendant of the Irish, I extend my hand in brotherhood and friendship, to the Partnership With Native Americans
Floyd Westerman of the Lakota Fist Nation, aka the red crow also known as Kanghi Duta, was a song writer and political activist and part of the native American movement. He also worked in a number of films, such as Powwow Highway and Renegades, Dances with Wolves, Son of the Morning Star and many others. Here he speaks in video interview of the common struggle shared between the Native American and Irish, who have both shared the stinging pinch of oppression, enslavement and genocidal tendencies of the British-American Empires:
“When I began to read about Bobby Sands, and what our brothers were doing there. I see that, and then, when I learned of the Gaelic language, that was their slogan, [Tiocfaidh ár lá] “We will have our day” I think our struggles are common. You know, and that, in the name of Tiocfaidh ár lá, it's the same. We will have our day too. And, we were told long ago too, that we would see America come and go. I often wondered what generation that would be. What would be the signs? Then we would see America in its failing times, and I think we're in that, and I think that this kind of exploitation is more recognizable and identifiable, the cultures are getting stronger and beginning to realize it's about your own survival, not about America so much.”
The British and American Empires have a long shared their dreary cooperative history of attempts to exterminate peoples around the globe, ransacking and plunder, who are not cut from the same cloth as the Anglo-Saxon Protestant lineage. When efforts fail to prevail… propaganda is published to divide, and hence, conquer marginalized groups. Pitting marginalized black against marginalized white, marginalized Jew against marginalized Arab, while land theft continues, with impunity to benefit the British-American empires. Now, attempts are being made by the same to convince the descendants of the Irish people, their ancestors were “never enslaved” by the all-powerful Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority power controlling both American Empire and British Empires. History begs to differ!
Here is one piece of evidence, how Anglo-Saxon Protestants (guilty of the Native American Genocide), were attempting to drive out the Irish, by once again, employing a time-tested and true, “Divide and Conquer” strategy, in attempt to turn Native Americans against the Irish! Now, efforts are underway to drive a wedge between the Irish and African American. Both races of man have faced brutality and hardships under sinister White Supremacist policies that sadly, are often, still accepted as “normal,” even laws from centuries earlier, remain on books and such demand ongoing courage and knowledge to challenge those old policies of injustice, in hopes to one day achieve justice and equity for all.
Just when do the tricks and schemes of these Empires cease? They have many tricks up their sleeve, their favorite tactic of all, —>Guilt<—. The victim is reinterpreted as the “victimizer” in public school history books and mainstream media. “Guilt” for crimes, individuals are not guilty of committing. “Guilt” to weigh down the burdens on the shoulders of an already overburdened people, worldwide... to control, subjugate and further weaken resistance. But the Imperialists feel NO guilt, NO remorse, and will never admit their almighty power was built on stolen lands, around the globe, through the unmitigated destruction of the many land's legitimate natural inhabitants. For instance, till the modern day, British offer no apologies for their colonial past, nor answered for their crimes against the approximately 35 million citizens of India, who perished due to colonial policies bathed in brutality. No more than American imperialists have came to a full reckoning with their centuries of genocide numbering in countless tens… hundreds of thousands… millions among the First Nations, the Native peoples from both North and South American continents.
The British and American Empires often use guilt-trips to distract the masses of downtrodden people with a fabricated past that aims to glorify the deeds of the oppressor, to further shape support for domestic and foreign policies in the future, but to no avail against those who choose to know history, and remain vigilant. The imperialist white supremacists who spread such messages, feel no guilt and continue to use subversive means to divide people, black against white, white against brown and so on, to further their status as conquerors. Divide and conquer. As an Irish descendant, I know my history, and I stand unapologetically on the side of oppressed people, from around the world. This sounds like slavery to me:
“The Irish filled the most menial and dangerous jobs, often at low pay. They cut canals. They dug trenches for water and sewer pipes. They laid rail lines. They cleaned houses. They slaved in textile mills. They worked as stevedores, stable workers and blacksmiths. Not only did working-class Americans see the cheaper laborers taking their jobs, some of the Irish refugees even took up arms against their new homeland during the Mexican-American War. Drawn in part by higher wages and a common faith with the Mexicans, some members of the St. Patrick’s Battalion had deserted the U.S. Army after encountering ill-treatment by their bigoted commanders and fought with the enemy. After their capture, 50 members of the “San Patricios” were executed by the U.S. Army for their treasonous decisions.
A Know-Nothing Party flag.
The discrimination faced by the famine refugees was not subtle or insidious. It was right there in black and white, in newspaper classified advertisements that blared “No Irish Need Apply.” The image of the simian Irishman, imported from Victorian England, was given new life by the pens of illustrators such as Thomas Nast that dripped with prejudice as they sketched Celtic ape-men with sloping foreheads and monstrous appearances.”
When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century’s Refugee Crisis
Who is behind the challenge to “prove” who suffered the most, as if centuries of hardship and being enslaved by Imperial elite Anglo-Saxon white supremacists is now a “pissing match” between races of people? Who claims that only he or she has suffered, that he or she holds the “monopoly” on hardship and I'll then show you a man or woman who has not suffered, for if they truly had, they would have learned to empathize with the suffering of the billions of others, both historical and present day! EVERYONE has suffered, globally, for centuries and continue to suffer due to Imperial overreach. The only way for people to achieve the dreams of personal life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is for the human race to one day, put aside their differences and come together to stand in unity against these oppressors of the peoples, around the world.
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, September 21, 2021
I regularly study controversies that erupt over history, and this one disturbs me particularly, being of Irish ancestry....
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Thursday, September 23, 2021
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