Dr Love's blog: "Words Of Wisdom"

First and foremost allow me to express my utmost respect for the presidency of the United States.  I am not writing this force my beliefs on anyone; I am expressing a few issues that are foremost on my mind.  Secondly, please let me congratulate Barack Obama on his victory and inauguration as the first African American president of these grand United States of America.  What an event to live through, to be able to say to my children and my grandchildren that I seen the inauguration of the first African American president is something that I will always treasure.

Not many things in my lifetime have been an event worth remembering, or an event worth telling in a positive manner.  I mean if you look at the past thirty years since being born in 1979 I can remember many events such as the Challenger disaster, September 11^th, Columbia exploding on re-entry, the earthquake and tsunami of 2004 that killed over 200,000 people.  Every time I turn around it seems like its bad news after bad news and it doesn’t ever seem to end. However, on the other hand I guess you could say that I have also seen the collapse of the Berlin Wall with the reunification of East and West Germany, and on the same token I have also seen the fall of communist Russia.  I have witnesses the launch of the Hubble Telescope into orbit allowing us to see further than ever before into the vastness of space and even the capture of Saddam Hussein and subsequent trial and execution that was a media circus for months.  At any rate, the reason I write today is not to congratulate Obama, or just to point out what events had transpired in my lifetime but rather to point out a particular American that is normally overlooked, the Native Americans.

For anyone reading this, I am not taking anything away from the importance of civil rights, or equality.  I do not intend to offend nor do I intend to make light of any events that have happened in the past to get us to where we are for civil rights.  There are many people who have been persecuted over the ages such as the Jewish, African Americans, or the Muslims as well as many more.  I bring up the Native Americans not only due to the fact that I am a quarter Cherokee Indian but that of all of the races that helped merge the United States of America into what it is now, the Native Americans are one of the groups who have been pushed to the back of the line so to speak.

Ladies and gentlemen, with the recent election of our first African American president I say that next we should have a Native American as President of the United States.  I mean come on, they were here before we were this is their land.  The land we love so very much, the land we protect with our lives is not OUR land at all.  We arrived here looking for a place where we could express our beliefs in an open forum, having the freedom to do, say and believe whatever we so desired.  When we arrived we were met by a group of what some in those days called savages but were they really?  Being totally independent from any governments, free from religious persecution and above all else the so called savages were the caregivers of the earth.  They would live off the land, growing what they could and hunting what they could kill.  Just enough to feed their family or their tribe the term hording had no meaning to them.

Native Americans are the only group of people that have been reduced to lots of land that have been provided to them by the white man’s government, a government that is suppose to stand for freedom and equality.  If anyone in this country should be able to reside here and have their own set or laws, or their own set of standards it should be the American Indians and they should be able to do this wherever, and whenever they wish. 

Native American’s are the true owners of this land, and who better to guide the United States than a person who is in tune with not only themselves and their surroundings, but in perfect harmony with the earth.  Now that we have taken this HUGE step for total equality, I say that we as Americans need to look into ourselves and realize that there are more important issues than the color of some ones skin, or their heritage.