Indigenous

They weren’t much like the blonde girl next door, but they were beautiful nonetheless. Some would call them chink, gook, Japs, yellow and sometimes cross-eyed. As for islanders they were called barbaric; lethal; threats; guineas.

They weren’t much like the blonde girl next door, but they were beautiful nonetheless. They weren’t yellow; they were beautiful like porcelain.

They weren’t much like the blonde girl next door, but they were beautiful nonetheless. They weren’t cross-eyed not chink. They were the shape of almonds and they had a fine piercing stare; but they smiled with happiness in their eyes.

 

They weren’t Americans but they are a people who tolerate and have their happiness with what little they have.

 

An oppressed racial group; they have suffered from the death of their cultures and left all they can’t leave behind.

 

Thus, it is the colonizer.

 

They weren’t black and they weren’t white.

 

Barbaric is a word used for cannibalism.

 

They had sleek brown skin and were considered Asian by their counterparts.

 

Lethal? Once a peaceful people now fighters in army combat. Now they are lethal.

 

Threats? Aren’t we the ones threatening them the most? Leave the war with thee Americans. But as a spiritual people, we become uncomplacent.

 

Is this really what the spirits want for us?

 

Guineas. Grease balls. Old names of the 1960’s.

 

Now Italian-American….

 

What people want are to be known as indigenous.

 

What people in big countries take on are their smaller counterparts.

 

But why? 

 

POWER Because without power there is 

COWARDICE and the smaller counerparts help us by winning their wars under their

FEAR….