NATIONS OF THE WORLD MIGHT QUESTION ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

The historical record of U.S. Constitutional protections of minority people is in question today. Did the past protests and constitutional reforms merely cover-up old white-apartheid systems of frontier America? In sum, the question of exporting ideals of America abroad to oppressed people in need of freedom and sovereignty under constitutional protections may depend upon self-examination of the historical record at home in issues affecting Native-Americans and African-Americans. Did these groups of formerly oppressed people progress out of the original colonial white-apartheid systems of economic exploitation of Indian land and African labor? It is called "business" today. Autonomy of minorities is intercepted in the Congress by powerful lobbyists of the corporate state in castrating civil rights and economic opportunity of the oppressed peoples. The Indians and the African-Americans have two centuries of economic exploitation to overcome if the new world order is not to be the old world order. Instead of beatings with a whip and massacres in the old world; the new world simply goes to Congress and get tax breaks and amendments that put power back in the hands of the corporations by lobbyists in Congress. The recent explosions in the Black communities have their roots in two centuries of slavery and Jim Crow laws that do what the slave owner did, emasculate the victims and make them feel powerless in the face of white authority. The election of an African-American President might be the saving of America that was nearly destroyed in the Civil War by a tiny group of slave owners who convinced their poor relatives that their "honor" had been abused, but in reality poor southern whites had no slaves and little money. The same game is played today when millions of poor whites are convinced that the rich one percent have their interests at heart, when in reality they have little money and no health care except for President Obama's "Obamacare." The new order of things in "Reaganomics" is corporate minimum-wage slavery if you can get a job! The Blackfeet Chiefs began to protest the incessant thievery of Blackfeet land and money when the white man from the States encroached upon the reservation. The State of Montana, and Congress of the United States are complicit in the massive land frauds of 100 million acres of Indian land across the nation. I am the last in line of Blackfeet landowners to pursue the Blackfeet land claims when the railroad and big-meat trusts got laws passed in Congress to get at the Indian's land and oil wells, and when the Indians filed claims to recover their stolen lands Congress passed laws to "outlaw justice" for Indian landowners robbed by corporate interests. The Blackfeet people developed a successful tribal cattle industry by 1893, hardly an accomplishment of "Indian savages" historians write about to cover up corporate genocide and slavery. I brought our stolen land claims to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee where they sit on a shelf awaiting "corporate" Congress to extinguish them after a century of Indian protest. Is that the historical record America wishes to export to the world?  Bob Juneau Sr.