Limbaugh on Indians, Negroes, and Benefits

A good friend of mine who is now gone, most unfortunately, especially for the history of the Cherokee, as he wrote what I consider THE book on Stand Watie. (He was working on another book when he died and his worthless daughter and son were not interested and would not even let me have his writings, so that I could do something with them. I have no use for people that don't love their families.) His wife's grandfather rode with Watie The book is called Red Fox, Stand Watie's Years in Indian Territory, by Wilfred Knight. He begins the book with this poem that he wrote: General Stan Watie

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Limbaugh just disqualified himself from the “all-knowing” status of the Maha-Rushi. He repeatedly confessed his own ignorance, as he attempted to comment on the current issue in the Cherokee Nation.

In a classic confrontation, the Cherokee Nation, and American Indian tribe, is being told it must include Negroes. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, a United Stated government agency, is dictating to the Cherokee Nation who its citizens are. This is a glorious moment for all liberal whites, and most professional conservative whites–who generally know nothing about Indians or Indian history. They all love to put American Indians and Negroes in the same class. Limbaugh was titillated at the prospect.

Rush Limbaugh today noted the controversy, and displayed epitomical ignorance and prejudice. He observed:

So we have a whole little country here operating inside America with their own rules. They need the largesse of the federal government but they don’t want to live with the federal laws. I kind of like this, because the Cherokee here are telling the Feds to pound sand, unlike the penguin which ate sand. They’re telling the federal government to pound sand.

Largesse? Indian treaties that were bought with blood, with the price of war, do not result in “largesse,” Mr. Limbaugh. Your ignorance is ghastly on this point. The Cherokee “don’t want to live with the federal laws” because they don’t have to. They earned their right of autonomy a long time ago. There is apparently a lot you “don’t know” about Indians, Rush. Are you willing to deal with that grotesque lack of knowledge, despite your otherwise stellar and renowned “all-knowing” professions?

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