The fourth of July is one thing to an American citizen from the Midwest, and the deep South, another thing to an Indian, and another to the descendants of ex-slaves. It is another thing for the risk takers from other countries who ventured to our shores to make their homes and build their families upon Turtle Island. Freedom pulled them to these shores. Their ideas of freedom are variants from the original concepts of this country's founding fathers, who could not fathom women influencing policy, or dictating yea, or nay about war, as the Iroquois practiced.
We are living in an interesting time when the backlash of our foreign policies, and the legacies of the historical precepts that shaped American conquests are returning home to roost in our proverbial approach to reconciliation that doesn't work, and further divides people. The notions of freedom are increasingly becoming diatribes, and descendants from a paranoia, a fear that is acting against the freedoms hard won over the centuries.
Yesterday, Jay Winter Nightwolf was blocked from entering the studios of the Pacifica radio station (WPFW 89.3 FM) in Washington DC by the General Manager, John Hughes (202.573.0262) in a successful effort to prevent him from being the voice for Native America. His intended show was to focus on the Native perspectives on American independence. This is part of an ongoing internal battle within the station that is becoming more public each week as the established voices for the many communities unique to the Washington DC area are fighting against the stifling silence gentrification is forcing upon communities and people of color across the city. It is a struggle. What isn't a struggle? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.6.13
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