Discrimination @ MindSay

Three weeks into the kids school year and Mamma Bitch had to go up to the school.  NEW RECORD! 

 

Randy gave me a new name to go with Mamma Bitch though.  He says there are no bear totems in either one of our families and he is correct.  So according to Randy I can't call myself a Mamma Bear I have to be Mamma Wolf cause his name means wolf and his last name in german means son of wolf. 

 

Anyway, let the games begin.  The blonde hair and blue eyes singled Mz Diva DeLaney out today and she got called a few names.  Nothing as major as last year.  But still racial motivated. 

 

When i picked the kids up, DeLaney informed me of the first incidetn happening at recess and she informed the teacher and nothing was done.  Strick one.  The second incident happened at PE.  PE teacher I went to school with and he is 4 years older then me and I was good friends with his sister in school.  Needless to say Mr. M KNEW if he didn't do something about it, I would have his ass along with the recess teacher's ass when DeLaney told me about the name calling.  Mr. M pulled the lil girl who was doing the name calling out of play and sat her down and also sat DeLaney down.  Strick two.  My girl didn't do shit wrong you dont' punish her.    Mr. M failed to report the incident to the Counselor, their girls' teacher, or to the Administraor.  Strick three.

 

I promptly turned my car around.  Administrator was busy and counselor wasn't to be found, so i went to the teacher.  Mr. M hightailed his ass into the Church basement when he saw me pull into the parking lot and walk to the school.  Smart move Mr. M.  I'll be at mass on Sunday so you and I can have a lil talk:D

 

DeLaney's teacher did take action when DeLaney informed her of what happened in PE.  The school counselor was called in and she removed the lil girl who was calling DeLaney names to her office to have a chit chat about discrimination (doesn't matter if her lil butt is indian), name calling and respecting other ppl.  Especially when the other person you are calling names to, has been nothing but nice to you, let you ride to a bday party with her, and asked her mom to give her a ride down to their mom's place of work after school!  While the school counselor was addressing the lil girl, the teacher was addressing DeLaney and the rest of the class about respecting other ppl and how discrimination is discrimination and she will NOT tolerate it from anyone in the class.

 

I informed the teacher that is good because this mamma won't put up with it and she best make sure she documents the incident.  If it happens again I will be requesting a meeting with the lil girl's parents and it won't be pretty.  Teacher agrees that something will be done if it happens again.  Administrator still no where to be found and Mr. M is still hiding out in the basement of the church.

 

As the kids and I were leaving the school after my chit chat with the teacher, Mr. M decieded it was safe to walk up from the church to school.................he must have forgetton how I am.  I did a u turn in the middle of the road and went back into the school parking lot.  Mr. M had no where to go.  I advised him to write up an incident report and I would be checking tomorrow.  If he didn't have it written up, it wouldn't matter if I like his parents or sister or even him, I would have his balls in the palm of my hand.  Mr. M agreed to get the incident report documented before he left school tonight.  I dont' have to go to Mass on Sunday now.  Thank GODS!

 

Randy is not a happy camper that the bull crap of racial discrimination from the indian kids towards the stand out white kids is starting early.  It did make him feel better that the two main instigators from last year got their asses beat by their parents/guardians when I raised enough hell last year, that DeLaney and the two girls are now very much friends and okay with each other.  DeLaney and Coltin are even going to one lil girl's bday party tomorrow night after TKD. 

 

Why I said stand out white kids, is first the majority of the indian kids in the school are either half to 3/4 white but are considered "indian" because they ahve that 1/4 blood line to be registered in one of teh federal regoniized tribes.  Second out of the four full white kids (two of them are mine) DeLaney and a lil first grade catch the most hell from the indian kids who aren't being taught to treat ppl the same.  They have bright blonde hair and bright blue eyes and fair skin.  Where Coltin and the other lil white girl are brunettes.  Colt has darker blue eyes that hint at green or grey and darker skin then the majority of his class.  And the lil white girl has fair skin but brown eyes and her mom thinks they are indian.  Basically wannabe.  In other words they blend in and the majority of the kids and substitute teachers or visiting missionaries think they are indian.  I even had one of the visiting nuns ask me last week why I was picking up the lil white girl when I picked the kids up.  I said she was mine that is why and she goes well her dad must be the white one in the family. 

 

I have gotten use to it all my life having indian and none indian alike think I am indian so i just let the nun think that.  I am getting real tired of various ppl in a minority groups thinking they can scream racial discrimination and teach their kdis that but it is okay for them to call other ppl of other races derogatory names.  Discrimination is discrimination no matter who is doing it.  I won't bow down because I happen to be white.  Don't screw with my kids and I won't make your life hell. 

 

We will see how this plays out.  I meet mom and dad of the lil girl who started the shit today when I took her to the bday party last week with us.  Mamma is half white and half indian and Daddy is half white and half indian.  So tech lil girl who starting the shit is half white and half indian!  I know Daddy will flip his lid when he finds out, simply because I know who the family is and they have every race in the book intermarried into their family.  Mamma is from a different tribe and even though she has lived here a while I don't know her or her family.

 

I am hoping we can work this out because DeLaney is devestated about this lil girl saying something like that to her.  She thought they were friends.  My poor girl has been learning since kindergarden that some ppl including kids are just hurtful to others and they like to pick on those that stand out.  Thankfully it hasn't prevented her from donig her own thing still!

A Canadian waitress lost her job when she went into work after shaving her head for a charity called Cops for Cancer, a local fundraiser for cancer research.  The woman's friend was going through cancer, and she also lost her father to the disease--it was an issue close to her heart, and shaving her head for the charity was a no-brainer.

But then she went to work, and her boss told her to go home and not to come back.  How horrible is that?

We can talk for weeks on end what discrimination and all its various terms is or isn't.

But I think discrimination can be best illustrated here and here.

I'm big on kid's issues and it peaks my attention every time any child goes missing or is harmed; but there is one area that bothers me- and it has to do with the amount of time, media and resources spent on certain types of children who go missing.

This child's abductor took her out of her home in the middle of the night, just like Jessica Lunsford. But do you know who Jaquilla Scales is? I don't downplay the atrocity of any missing/murdered child by any means. But I do know who Jaquilla Scales is- and I can tell you the resources used to find her was nil compared to other cases I've seen. She has never been found.

It's a dirty slap in the face. Be my guest; explain it away any way that makes you feel better. But this, this my friends is the undeniable and shameful face of discrimination.

I waited a while to calm down before I blogged about this.  And before anyone says I am jumping on the current discrimination/reverse discrimination bandwagon, I am not!  I am goign to tell you about what happened to my boy and myself in the past weeks. 

 

This is the defination of Discriminate found in the dictonary.  Please notice the date it was first introduced into the dictonary

 

  Etymology: Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare, from discrimin-, discrimen distinction, from discernere to distinguish between — more at discern Date: 1628

Main Entry: reverse discrimination

Date: 1964

: discrimination against whites or males

 

I don't use reverse discrimination when talking about discrimination.  Because simply put, discrimination is discrimination no matter who is doing it.  And on that note let me tell you what has upset me to a point where I am still strongly debating about contacting the Arch Diociese of Omaha and the Accrediation Organization for one of the Tribal Colleges.

 

The first issue was my son.  He didn't get to go down to Omaha to the Joyclin Art Center with his Drum Group.  They gave me a bogus excuse that he was misbehaving during Drum Circle on Monday's and Fridays.  Even the Administrator said that was bogus and if that was the case, then the majority of the boys wouldn't be allowed to go.  The Drum Circle is for all the boys in school, K-8th grade.  And what really torked off Donnie (the school adminstrator) was the fact the priest went along with the Drum Circle Leader on banning my boy from going.  We also came to find out that the lil Kindergardner that wasn't allowed to go either was also banned from going!  He was devasted more so than Coltin because he lives with his Great Grandparents and they don't get out much.  So when I take Coltin on a day trip, we have invited him along so he can go someplace also. 

 

After Donnie and I did a lot of digging to find out the reasons as to why my boy and this other lil boy was banned from going by the Drum leader, it became apparent that it was because Coltin is a full white boy and the lil Kindergardner is 3/4s white.  The Drum Leader is of the Snake Clan.  Now from what I understand of the Snake Clan in the Bago Tradation, is they are NOT Leaders and are NOT to hold any major title and such with in any aspect of the tribe or various tribal workings.  And to be quit honest the majority of them don't they follow tradation as much as possible.  But this particular gentleman decieded that he didn't want a full white boy and a lil 3/4 white boy even though the lil guy is an enrolled member of the Bago tribe to be seen at this fund raiser!  And what I find extermly funny is one of DeLaney's class mates and his older brother's are 3/4s white also even though they look full indian!  How do I know this?  Well their mom is half white and their dad is full white!  But they got to go even though they are the lil trouble makers of the school and the drum circle because they were related to the Drum Circle leader!  Donnie the school administrator is half Omaha and half white so he completely understands why my boy and this lil guy was extermly upset!  He has been discriminated against by non indians and indians alike! 

 

My mom is on her Church Board and informed some of her church members (where my kids also go to mass and is apart of the Mission and the Mission School) and a couple of  the board members (which Donnie is on also) took MAJOR offense to the fact my boy and the lil guy wasn't allowed to go.  A couple of the older members both none indian and indian took it up with their Priest who realized he better take it up with the Head Priest at the Mission.  My boy and the lil guy have yet to recieve an apology but the older indian ladies and the older none indian ladies have managed to convience the head preist who went along with the drum circle leader that he will be coming up with some money so Donnie, his wife, Randy, and I can take Coltin and the lil guy out for a day on the Missioin's Dime.  And my mom rather enjoyed with her older indian lady friend who is the priesdent of the church board in Bago, the dressing down that a 94 year old indian man from the Macy parish gave the Head Priest for allowing the Drum Circle Leader to be out right discrimintory towards two young men of the communities who are both being taught that everyone bleeds the same!  We even had a couple of middle age men and women who are Asian from the Homer Mission Parish get in on the dressing down of the Priests and Drum Circle Leader!  They are donating some treats for our day out when we can get it planned and get the lil guy's great grandparents to agree to it!  Cathy, Donnie's wife and Mission Secratary/School Secratary, and I are more excited for the treats I think!  One of the couples donating the treats owns an Asian Bakery in the city and that is what the treats will be!

 

Now on to what happened to me just in this last week.  The college I have been strongly debating about going to is a Tribal college.  It is accredited and only a two year college but a lot of people both none indian and indian alike go here.  Which means since they are accredited they are held to the same standards as public colleges and recieve public and gov't funding!  Well about 10 years ago they redid the majority of their small campous and when they did this, they included a library.  A library that is also the town's public liberary.  Well my girl Tab and I decieded that we had some time to kill before we pickedu p my kids last week from school to go get library cards and check out some books.  They even had a HUGE sign outside of the building and a smaller sign in the builddingthat said "Public Welcome to Get Library Cards."  Well I picked out a couple of books that I didn't want to buy but wanted to read and attempted to get a library card. 

 

Before I go much further:  "IF YOU IMMIGRATE TO THIS COUNTRY GREAT!  PLEASE PLEASE BEFORE YOU TAKE A COMMUNITY SERVICE OR CUSTOMER SERVE TYPE JOB, LEARN TO ENNOUCEATE YOUR WORDS WITH YOUR ACCENT!  IT DRIVES ME AND YOU BATTY WITH ME OR YOU CONSTANTLY ASKING WHAT THE OTHER IS SAYING!"  Thank you!

 

The lady refused me a library card!  I asked her why.  She left the station and went into the Library Director's office and came back and asked me a seris of questions. 

 

 Are you an enrolled member of any Indian tribe? 

 

Me:  Do I looke indian to you?

 

yes.

 

Me.  Well, no I am not indian nor am I an enrolled member of any tribe.

 

Do you work in Bago?

 

Me.  No.  Why.

 

I can not give you a libary card then.

 

Me.  Why?

 

Because you are not a indian and you do not work in bago.

 

me.  my kids go to school here and i live on one of the two reservation communities and have my entire life minus a few years.

 

I am sorry.  The library is for only enrolled members of tribes and for none indians who work in bago.

 

Me.  I see so your discriminating against me due to the fact i am not indian and i do not work in bago is that correct

 

Yes.  I am sorry and I actually don't agree with it.

 

Me.  Then I guess I won't be going to school here next year like I was planning on it.  Thank you.

 

My girl Tab is enrolled member of the Omaha tribe.  She heard the by play of what happened.  Put her book down and walked into the Director's Office and promptly told them off for being bigets, racists, and assholes.  And that she was also thinking about returning to school to the college next year when I did and now she will NOT and she will also inform the Omaha Tribe of how the Bago Tribe is NOW discriminating against EVERYONE and not just Omaha people.  And walked right on out, while the director of the library was trying to inform her that she was more than welecomed to recieve a library card.

 

I was LIVID!  I calmed down a few days later and when I did, I contacted teh President of the newly elected Bago Tribal Council and informed them what was going on up at that college.  I also contacted the CEO of a major Tribal company and left a message.  I know the CEO through our family's even though I don't know him personally.  His assistant got back to me took down what happened and Lance passed on his thoughts and what happened to the Tribal President also and the College President.  See the CEO is half white and is also enrolled in the Bago Tribe.  He gets it both ways like Donnie the school administrtor that my kids go to school at.  The Tribal Council President knows my mom so she went and talked to my moms.  Got some input there and then called me that evening.  The College isn't going to like some of the new policies that the new president of the tribal council is going to suggest.  Meaning if it says open to the Public it is going to mean the entire reservation communities public!  Indian, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Purple, Pink, or Blue!  And if they can't take everyone's money for a library card then the sign will come down that says Public welcomed and go back to being just a Tribal College Library for the students only!

 

See discrimination happens to all races by all races.  There is NO SUCH THING as reverse discrimation.  Stop using words that men have put int he dictonary that means the same thing for all races! 

On March 31, 1596, a child, named Rene, was born in the French village of La Haye en Touraine. In 1684, a work of his titled Rules for the Direction of the Mind was posthumously published. Today he is known as the French philosopher, Rene Descartes, and on the 2^nd of October, 1802, the village of La Haye en Touraine was renamed Descartes in his honor. Together with his Discourse on Method which was written in 1637, Rules for the Direction of the Mind lays out a method for solving problems that has never been surpassed. If the American educational system were not mediocre, Americans would be familiar with this method and applying it would have given them an efficient way of attacking social problems. In the absence of this knowledge, however, Americans have instead developed ways of obfuscating problems to such an extent that solving them has become impossible.

 

To illustrate this method of obfuscation, consider the controversy over illegal immigration. People, on one level, see the problem as so simple that the controversy defies explanation. People who break laws, when caught, are punished in one way or another, presumably in hopes of getting them to conform, and no good reason exists for excluding illegal immigrants from this practice. When a government is blind to one form of illegality, all legality becomes suspect.

 

But then the obfuscation begins.

 

Illegal immigrants, we are told, alleviate a labor shortage. Yet no signs of a labor shortage exist. Jobs are not going unfilled and wages are not rising.

 

Illegal immigrants fill jobs that Americans refuse. But since the wages for these jobs are not rising, no evidence exists that Americans won’t take them. If market forces were allowed to work, wages would rise and then and only then could we determine that Americans won’t work those jobs. But the business community that talks the talk of free-market economic theory won’t walk its walk.

 

Illegal immigrants are merely decent, hard-working people only trying to make a better life for themselves. Well, some are and some aren’t. When a person illegally crosses the border into the United States, there is no way of knowing if he/she is coming for a low-paying job or for the promise of highly rewarding crime.

 

When illegal immigrants, many of whom have sired children in the United States, are deported, families are broken up and children, who are here because of no fault of their own, are left without a parent or parents. Since Americans, so they say, don’t punish children for the crimes of their parents, deporting illegal immigrants is unfair, since it punishes their children. But it is untrue, of course, that the children of criminals are not punished for the crimes of their parents. Although not legally punished, they suffer in countless ways. If we don’t protect the children of ordinary criminals from such hardship, how can we justify protecting the children of illegal immigrants?

 

Illegal immigrants contribute more to the economy than they extract. Although the accuracy of this claim is dubious, suppose it’s true. Everyone who acquires money, whether legally or illegally, contributes to the economy when the money is spent. How could one determine, for instance, if Al Capone contributed less to the economy that he acquired? How many people did his criminal syndicate employ? How large was the magnifier effect of the wages they were paid? And if we had determined that he, in fact, contributed more to the economy that he took from it, would that have justified overlooking his criminal behavior?

 

Finally we are told that we must surely feel sorry for these people. Having endured the hardships of coming to America illegally, having endured the low wages and horrible working conditions of the jobs they take, and having endured the discrimination they have been subjected to, must we not feel sorry for them? We must surly feel doubly sorry for their children. Well, yes, of course, we should feel sorry for them, but we have reason to feel sorry for many groups of people. Shouldn’t we feel sorry for the many that endure illnesses but have no access to medical care? Shouldn’t we feel sorry for the families that are losing their homes because of the actions of unscrupulous lenders and inattentive government regulatory agencies? Shouldn’t we feel sorry for the homeless? Shouldn’t we feels sorry for maimed veterans? Shouldn’t we feel sorry for those who work for minimum wage? Shouldn’t we feel sorry for the elderly who must live on social security, or the impoverished who must live on welfare, or the unemployed who must live on unemployment compensation? In truth, if we are to invoke sorrow, we can find good reason to feel sorry for a huge number of Americans, and many of us do, but there is little that we can do about it. Why should it be different for illegal immigrants?

 

We are told that we can’t deport millions of people. Why do we have to? They came here without our assistance; if  they discover that jobs are unavailable, why does anyone suppose they won’t leave without our assistance?

 

And finally, we are told that rounding up illegal immigrants is a form of racial discrimination or profiling. But is it? When I was a boy, I lived in a part of Pennsylvania that was, at the time, environmentally unspoiled. The hills and woodlands that surrounded our town were replete with wild berries every summer, and we all picked them. There were blackberries, raspberries, and especially blueberries which were the most numerous. So when we went berry picking, although we picked all kinds, we usually come home with greater numbers of blueberries. Were we engaged in berry profiling? When people go out searching, they find the most of what is most prevalent.

 

I am not anti-immigrant. I am a first generation American son of immigrant parents. I have a son-in-law of Mexican heritage and three darling grandchildren who are officially classified as members of a minority, although you’d never know it by watching the way they act or listening to the way they talk. They know no Spanish, although I, not being Hispanic, do; they know nothing of Latin culture, although I not only do, I admire it; they have no understanding of how the Southwest became part of the United States, although I do and believe it to have been unjustified. My two best friends are of Mexican decent, and my favorite ballroom dance teacher is too. I prefer Latin music, especially Cuban to American, and I read the works of Latin writers. Yet I do not believe the illegality of immigrants should be overlooked. Not because I don’t have sympathy for them but because I fear both for them and for the rest of us if we don’t put an end to it.

 

Immigrants are always happily welcomed in prosperous times. But when economies slump, immigrants, especially illegal ones, become targets. And it is not a coincidence that the current furor over illegal immigration is simultaneous with our declining economy. If this economy should go under, as many believe it will, discrimination will sprout like Jack’s beanstalk. Race relations could get very ugly.

 

The America known as a melting pot was never a real place. Many other nations have carried out racial melding far better than America has. One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, our black population was legally discriminated against and still is, albeit illegally, in many ways, today. In every period of mass foreign immigration, immigrants faced discrimination, and there is no reason to believe that they won’t again. That all larger nations are merely pseudo-communities invented and imposed by nation-building elites has often been pointed out. Such nations are entities unable to command the public's loyalty and support or display a  willingness to endure sacrifices. In The Social Conscience, Michel Glautier asks: can a caring society exist in a market economy? His analysis suggests that recent and continuing changes to our market economy are putting a caring society beyond reach. If he is right, and if the American economy is in decline, this “caring society beyond reach” will not act kindly to immigrants, especially illegal ones. For that reason alone, our problem with illegal immigration must be resolved or both our illegal immigrants and the rest of us will have hell to pay. Obfuscating the issue does not help.

©2007 John Kozy