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Strong swimmers in a little pond
Deluded on the sly, corrupted from the cradle
By James Giago Davies
www.nsweekly.com

A propaganda duped public isn’t hard to achieve or maintain. It is one of those ingeniously built setups, like a beaver dam, you take the time to build it right, and the pond fills up and practically takes care of itself, just requires a little timely maintenance.

People from Lakota country shouldn’t have to be told that. You see the distortion first hand, minds so propaganda duped they cannot see that calling a team the Washington Redskins is overtly racist.

We learn in school about propaganda machines, in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. We figure, given our free press, we are the least propaganda duped people in human history. That is how the best propaganda works, the invisible kind that deludes you on the sly, corrupts you from the cradle.

Overt mind control, like George Orwell predicted in his book “1984,” never came about because it is unnecessary, all you have to do is prime the pump. First, you control the media, limit what people find out, and distort what they do find out. Second, you control the education system, spoon feed distortion deep into impressionable minds while they are young, because such an adult mind, even if highly intelligent, has no problem rationalizing something horrible into something harmless, even good. Like Washington Redskins, I mean, what’s wrong with that? We meant it to honor Indians, you know, the very people we have such contempt for we scoff at their objections.

On the one hand, the aboriginal American should be proud, Americans don’t name sports teams after things that don’t honor them; they don’t call the team the Washington Blackskins because that would be insulting. Not to Black people, but to themselves. Black people were slaves, no honor there. Indians were warriors, lots of honor to co-op there. So while we murdered those Redskins, stole an entire continent from them, we did admire their fighting spirit, so we will honor ourselves by naming our sports teams after the people we wronged.

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(James Giago Davies can be reached at skindiesel@msn.com)

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