While libtards were out patting themselves on the back this week for celebrating “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” a few common-sense Americans dared to ask the obvious:
What exactly are we honoring?
Here’s a reality check for the woke crowd lighting candles and rewriting history textbooks: not every culture was peaceful, pure, or perfect – including Native American tribes.
That’s not racism, it’s history.
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth that the left always seems to ignore: many Native American tribes owned African-American slaves.
Yep, that’s right. The same groups we’re told to idolize for being “in harmony with nature” had African slaves working on farms and plantations.
Not only that, but during the Trail of Tears – a brutal government-forced relocation between 1830 and 1850 – thousands of those African-American slaves were dragged along by Native tribes like the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, many dying of starvation, disease, and exposure right alongside their enslavers.
You don’t hear that part in your kid’s classroom, do you?
Now, nobody’s saying Native Americans didn’t suffer at the hands of the U.S. government. They absolutely did.
But let’s quit pretending they were peaceful flower children frolicking in the forest until evil Europeans showed up with guns and guilt.
The truth? Native Americans fought, raided, enslaved, and conquered each other long before Columbus ever missed a turn.
They were warriors and survivors, not some utopian tribe of gentle earth-huggers. Again, that’s history – not hate.
And about that whole “stolen land” nonsense?
The left loves to scream it like it’s gospel. But here’s the kicker: Native Americans didn’t “originate” in North America either.
Modern science points to the first humans migrating here from Asia over the Bering Land Bridge – not sprouting from the Nevada dirt like sagebrush.
So if crossing into this land makes it “stolen,” then technically they were the first “illegal immigrants.” Want to cancel them too?
This all hits especially close to home here in Nevada, where the political left is quick to virtue signal on Indigenous People’s Day, but dead silent on inconvenient facts.
Take Las Vegas, where taxpayer-funded events honor “ancestral land” while ignoring the fact that those ancestors also traded slaves, scalped rivals, and claimed land by conquest – just like every other civilization in world history.
But here’s the bigger problem: the left’s obsession with identity politics has gone so far off the rails that it now demands Americans hate themselves for existing.
They want us to apologize for being here, for owning homes, and for building a country that – even with its flaws – is still the freest, and greatest, on Earth.
They say celebrating Columbus Day is offensive.
You know what’s offensive? Teaching kids to hate their country while ignoring the sins of other cultures.
If we’re gonna be honest about history, fine. But let’s be honest across the board.
Here’s the bottom line: No one has a monopoly on virtue. No race, no tribe, no culture.
The history of mankind is filled with conquest, conflict, and yes, slavery – including among Native Americans.
That doesn’t make them uniquely evil, but it sure doesn’t make them saints either.
So before we cancel Columbus, tear down statues, and rename every street in Reno, how about we get real?
America is not perfect. But we’re not on stolen land – we’re on inherited land, like every civilization that ever existed.
What matters is what we do with it now, not who camped here 500 years ago.
And if you want to teach your kids the full story on Indigenous People’s Day, maybe start with this:
Don’t worship people. Learn from them. And never let the government or the media tell you who the good guys are just because it fits their political agenda.
P.S. Bring back the frigging Cleveland INDIANS, the Washington REDSKINS, and the Land o’ Lakes lady!
Sources:
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Smithsonian Magazine, “When the Trail of Tears Included Enslaved People”
- Historian Tiya Miles, Harvard University
- Nevada Day official state resources
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