George Carlin on AMERICAN INDIANS from POLITICALLY CORRECT LANGUAGE I call them Indians because thats what they are. Theyre Indians. Theres nothing wrong with the word Indian. First of all, its important to know that the word Indian does not derive from Columbus mistakenly believing he had reached India. India was not even called by that name in 1492; it was known as Hindustan. More likely, the word Indian comes from Columbuss description of the people he found here. He was an Italian, and did not speak or write very good Spanish, so in his written accounts he called the Indians, Una gente in Dios. A people in God. In Dios. Indians. Its a perfectly noble and respectable word. So lets look at this pussified, trendy bullshit phrase, Native Americans. First of all, theyre not natives. They came over the Bering land bridge from Asia, so theyre not natives. There are no natives anywhere in the world. Everyone is from somewhere else. All people are refugees, immigrants, or aliens. If there were natives anywhere, they would be people who still live in the Great Rift valley in Africa where the human species arose. Everyone else is just visiting. So much for the native part of Native American. As far as calling them Americans is concerned, do I even have to point out what an insult this is? Jesus Holy Shit Christ! We steal their hemisphere, kill twenty or so million of them, destroy five hundred separate cultures, herd the survivors onto the worst land we can find, and now we want to name them after ourselves? Its appalling. Havent we done enough damage? Do we have to further degrade them by tagging them with the repulsive name of their conquerers? And as far as these classroom liberals who insist on saying Native American are concerned, heres something they should be told: Its not up to you to name people and tell them what they ought to be called. If youd leave the classroom once in a while, youd find that most Indians are insulted by the term Native American. The American Indian Movement will tell you that if you ask them. The phrase Native American was invented by the U.S. government Department of the Interior in 1970. It is an inventory term used to keep track of people. It includes Hawaiians, Eskimos, Samoans, Micronesians, Polynesians, and Aluets. Anyone who uses the phrase Native American is assisting the U.S. government in its effort to obliterate peoples true identities. Do you want to know what the Indians would like to be called? Their real names: Adirondack, Delaware, Massachusett, Narragansett, Potomac, Illinois, Miami, Alabama, Ottowa, Waco, Wichita, Mohave, Shasta, Yuma, Erie, Huron, Susquehanna, natchez, Mobile, Yakima, Wallawalla, Muskogee, Spokan, Iowa, Missouri, Omaha, Kansa, Biloxi, Dakota, Hatteras, Klamath, Caddo, Tillamook, Washoe, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Laguna, Santa Ana, Winnebago, Pecos, Cheyenne, Menominee, Yankton, Apalachee, Chinook, Catawba, Santa Clara, Taos, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Blackfeet, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Comanche, Shoshone, Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Chiricahua, Kiowa, Mescalero, Navajo, Nez Perce, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Pawnee, Chickahominy, Flathead, Santee, Assiniboin, Oglala, Miniconjou, Osage, Crow, Brule, Hunkpapa, Pima, Zuni, Hopi, Paiute, Creek, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, Shinnecock. You know, youd think it would be a fairly simple thing to come over to this continent, commit genocide, eliminate the forests, dam up the rivers, build our malls and massage parlors, sell our blenders and whoopee cushions, poison ourselves with chemicals, and let it go at that. But no. We have to compound the insult. Native Americans! Im glad the Indians have gambling casinos now. It makes me happy that dimwitted white people are losing their rent money to the Indians. Maybe the Indians will get lucky and win their country back. Probably they wouldnt want it. Look what we did to it.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:51:00 +0000
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