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Sometimes I become so involved in living life, I forget I am not white. As you know I am the only American Indian participating here at Smart Girl, and one of the very few people of color participating here at Smart Girl. I am disappointed so few of color are willing to participate here.

This is much in keeping with the ethnicity breakdown of the Republican party. There are not many people of color who are members of the Republican party.

My hope is participants will overlook my sometimes forgetting I am not white. You would think I would remember this being reminded on a daily basis by people, I am not white.

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Looks the killing was only done by Christians.

Christians killed my ancestors by the tens of millions for two reasons. One of those reasons is my ancestors were not Christians. The most important reason, however, Christians killed my ancestors so Christians could take away our homes and our lands. Rather greedy, I think.

After the killing was done, Christians sent my ancestors on death marches, such as the Trail of Tears. This happened all over Christian America. I suppose Christians came to realize slaughtering a peoples by the tens of millions is not all this Christian. So, death marches instead to avoid blame for deaths of American Indian children, women and men.

You infidel Indians are to be killed. This is God's Law.

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She always smiles for me. She cannot remember me, but she always smiles for me. I think there is an emotional memory there. Somehow she emotionally remembers I bring her friendship and fun. I make a point to visit with her at least twice a month. She will not be alive much longer. I am responsible, as a real friend, to help make her winter of life as enjoyable as possible.

Both her mind and her health could be restored with stem cell therapy. Christians will not allow this. Christians condemn her to losing her mind, then losing her life. Christians are not doing much to bring her joy during the winter of her life.

Old woman, you will lose your mind and lose your life. This is God's Law.

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I met her and her father by simply walking up to them at a car show, then striking up conversation. We quickly became friends then took to walking around to admire show cars, beautiful show cars. She cannot see those show cars, she is blind.

Her father carries a very soft towel so his girl can "touch" cars. This is a big no-no at car shows. Nonetheless, her father explains to car owners about her girl, asks permission if she can touch their cars if she is gentle and uses a clean cotton towel. None every say "no" to her. She delights in feeling the lines and contours of show cars. This is all she can do, she is blind.

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She loves all the noise, all the feeling of power and she most certainly loves going out to cruise in a hot rod parade. She would have us circle around the parade route a thousand times, if she could. But there are other cars for her to enjoy riding in.

People at car shows know us well. I make a point to walk her and her father around, make a point to ask our friends to take her and her father for a ride. None ever say "no" to them. Tell you, that girl has gone for rides in hot rods more times than I ever will in my entire life!

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Then I take her for a ride in my hot rod Corvette. This really gets her going. She is my copilot and flight engineer! She is in charge of all the special effects my husband installed in my Corvette. Laser light show, stage fog and huge flame throwers, my blind friend is in charge of all that stuff. She puts on the show for thousands of people watching us.

500 horsepower, burning a special blend jet fuel, costs me ten bucks just to start up my Corvette. This jet fuel I run is fifty dollars per gallon. We squeeze into my Corvette, with a helping hand for her, squeeze into my Corvette, buckle up, then I make her slip on sunshades so she will look cool. Makes no difference, she is blind. But we are cool!

Upon cranking and starting, my Corvette takes to shaking and bouncing like a California earthquake. Cutout exhaust is so loud we have to shout at each other to hear. Just starting up my car, she is excited enough to piddle her pants! Then we launch.

We get right out there in the middle of all that rolling heavy metal thunder. We are rolling heavy metal thunder. We are the fire which makes watchers scream in delight. At the right time, when safe, I holler at the top of my voice, "Hit the fire! Hit the fire!" She knows where the buttons are. She flips up a safety cover, presses a red button, counts to two, then releases. Boy howdy! Those big flames come shooting out right from under our doors, just front of my rear tires. All that heat on her face kinda makes her pull back then absolutely laugh so loud I can actually hear her over the thundering of my engine and cars around us.

She loves this. She is in charge. She is the rolling heavy metal thunder fire maker!

My blind friend has a type of blindness which could be cured with stem cell therapy. Christians will not allow this. She is to be blind, without choice.

You will be forever blind, little girl. This is God's Law.

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She has tattoos all up and down her body. I have enjoyed looking at all of her tattoos, even in the most private of places. She likes nibbling strawberries, sipping champagne and skinny dipping with our girl and me. Because she has tattoos, she cannot attend church. Tattoos are sinful.

She is a Christian, a devote Christian. Going to church, others sitting on pews get to looking at her, get to pointing, share gossip about her behind concealing hands. She is made uncomfortable. She is never forbidden in a church, never tossed out, she is simply made to feel so sinful, she will not go to church. She is a Christian and those in a church reject her for her tattoos.

Tattoos are sinful, you are not allowed in a house of worship. This is God's Law.

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We met through poverty. Back then, we shared a Victorian style house converted to apartments. Our girlfriends lived above us. Staircase leading up their apartment is inside this old house. Times were rough, we had not been in California long, struggling to find work, our girl was about a year old. We were just barely making it, could use help but never asked for help.

Like almost all my friends, I met those two by simply walking up to them and starting up talking. Was not long we became very close then we all lived together in a rental home of our own. We teamed together to help each other out. They needed help, we needed help, and all of us were too proud to ask for help. We pooled resources, shared expenses, shared responsibilities.

Both raised our girl, when we were off working. I did their laundry and cleaned house for them while they were off working. We became a very tight and close family. Best of all, our baby girl enjoyed a father and three moms. She still does.

Our girlfriends so want to marry each other, want to raise children of their own. I know they are the best of mothers just as I know they are deeply in love with each other, have been for decades. They always wanted my husband to father children for them, but this is not to happen. They are not allowed to be "parents" and if should something happen to one of them, the other would lose custody of "her" child not biologically her own.

I would be proud, so very proud to have my husband impregnate those two. However, these days they are too old; a risk of birth defects is far too high. They are responsible, they are not willing to take a risk on inflicting harm upon a child simply because of their wants.

They cannot marry each other. They cannot be parents. They are lesbians.

You are lesbians. You may not marry nor have children. This is God's Law.

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Sometimes I forget I am not white. Sometimes I forget I am not a Christian. Sometimes I forget my proper place in life. I do hope you Christians will overlook my forgetful nature. I do not deliberately forget my place in life, even though I reminded on a daily basis I am not white, I am not a Christian. I know my proper place, know where I belong according to Christians. I just slipup now and then, and forget. I am becoming age addled after all these years.

I am comforted to know Christians still maintain their tyrannical iron fist grip on America. I am comforted to know Christians are overseeing every aspect of my life, and the lives of my loved ones. Certainly a blessing Christians are laying down the law on morals and behaviors. I would be lost in life, would not know how to live, if not for our American Christian theocracy.

You are to obey the word of Christians. This is God's Law.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

I am Okpulot Taha within these comments.

You will discover some closing comments of mine at the very bottom of this page.

Taha, get a grip. We're CONSERVATIVES here. Of all types. Take your anti-Christian, Anti-White rant someplace else and let us get on with the overthrow of Obama.

I know one thing - we don't have any trouble remembering you're not white. You remind us every day.

And by the way, I'm part Oneida. My concerns are a little more immediate. That oreo in the WH is going to try to kill me in a few years. I not ready to go "quietly into that good night".

Taha, I have never criticized anyone on here for any of the things you list, you however have been quick to criticize Christians. You imply that if I disagree with you or your beliefs then I am hateful, so does that make you hateful too? I am sorry you have been so offended. I have been offended at times by your posts, but I just walk away and look at what we have in common.

As far as stem cell research goes, all of the successful trials have been with adult stem cells, not with embryonic stem cells. Maybe we should continue research in the areas that are working so we can save more lives.

Taha, do not allow the liberal, 2 minute media to define this issue. They would lump all types of stem cell research - be it embryonic, cord, or adult into one category - and then criticize anyone who dares to disagree with anyone one source.

It is the unethical source of embryonic cells which calls many to protest. Cord and adult cells are highly ethical sources which are yielding treatments today for many patients.

Ouch. I'm sorry to see this unoriginal blog from one of my favorite posters. I know the I'm-more-conservative-than-you-are arguments get old, but this is not an improvement. It's boring and sadly, it's PREDICTABLE. Well, predictable on a liberal board maybe. Let's get back to the think-pieces, Taha!

Oh, and I am non-white enough to criticize. I mean I look white, but if I need to pass a test or something, y'all can just let me know. I can give you a rundown of my ancestry, and explain how each group of ancestors was persecuted by Christians as well as evildoers of OTHER RELIGIONS and even of non-religions. (Gasp!) Yes it's true, Christianity does not hold a monopoly on evil.

Okpulot Taha, I know of no church that prohibits people with tatoos from attending church services. Mine certainly never prohibited tattooed people from participating in my religion.

As for stem cell therapy. It is my understanding, which might be wrong, that stem cell research is done by using murdered babies for that research. If stem cell research can be done any other way than by murder, it would be acceptable.

Wounded Knee Massacre. 1890. Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota area of Dakota Territory. Chief Big Foot's band of Sioux Indians. 200 Indian men, women, and children massacred by Federal Troops.

In 1881, Sitting Bull returned from Canada to the South Dakota region. He settled on Standing Rock Reservation in 1883. In 1890, a religious movement spread among the Sioux. This movement, called the Ghost Dance, was started by an Indian named Wovoka. Army leaders feared the Ghost Dance would lead to another Sioux uprising. They sent Indian police to arrest Sitting Bull, but he resisted and was killed. Some of Sitting Bull's followers fled the reservation and joined Chief Big Foot's band of Sioux on the Cheyenne River. Federal troops caught up with the Indians and took them to a cavalry camp on Wounded Knee Creek. There, the soldiers began to disarm the Sioux. A bloody battle began when someone fired a rifle. The soldiers massacred about 200 Indian men, women, and children. The Battle of Wounded Knee was the last big fight between Indians and white men on the northern plains.

Part of the Indian's Ghost Dance Religious belief was that all of the dead Indians would soon come back to life and kill all of the Whites. I doubt that the White's believed that, but the Indians who practiced the Ghost Dance Religion did and the Indians got quite excited with the possibilities of getting rid of the Whites. In turn, the Whites got paranoid, and probably with good reason. What happened at Wounded Knee shouldn't have.

There are no U.S. laws that lesbians cannot have children. I know of no church that would kick a lesbian out of a church service. People need to keep their sex habits to themselves--it is noone else's business.

Sometimes blindness can be cured by doctors with eye transplants or other types of surgery. Sometimes blindness cannot be cured. Using stem cells from a murdered human being (baby) is not an acceptable use of medical knowledge. When stem cells can be used without the murder of another soul, it will probably become widely used.

As far as my ancestors killing tens of millions of your ancestors--I doubt that amount. From what I have researched of my personal ancestors, none of them went around murdering any Indians or anyone else. From what I've read of history, there never were that many Native Americans, and they certainly weren't all murdered by Whites. Many of them were murdered by other Native American tribes--that was the way of life and belief of many tribes. There also isn't any accurate record of how many Indians murdered and massacred Whites since the early 1600s.

I am one of the most vocal and opinionated writers on Smart Girl Politics. If I have written something about your Indianness or heritage, it is because I truly wanted to hear from you what your experience was and is, not to criticize you or your Indian heritage. The other writers who've participated in blogs with you have not criticized your Indianness or heritage. They also usually liked to hear what you had to say.

I am truly sorry that you believe you are discriminated against. That must be a terrible feeling. If any of us have made you feel that way, I am sure it was not done with malice or on purpose or even with any idea that we were discriminating.

And, Okpulot Taha, unlike Black Americans whose ancestors served in slavery and have never been given reparations for that slavery; American Indians have been receiving millions of taxpayer dollars every year throughout the 20th Century and up until now for reparations. Those who live on the Reservations are in their own Sovereign Nations within the United States of America and are not always governed by the same laws and taxes that other Americans are governed by. They do not have to pay taxes on many products.

I believe the Reservations have done more to hinder most Native Americans' progress and kept them in poverty than any other fact. Most Indians who go off of the Reservation to live their lives and work, usually succeed just as well, if not better, as Whites do.

Take your anti-Christian, Anti-White rant someplace else

How arrogantly white of you. This thinking of yours is precisely the thinking which had Christians commit the most horrific genocide of written history.

we don't have any trouble remembering

I am surprised you remember considering all this iron fist censorship you practice here. You are well known for censoring those who disagree with you. Rather clear you are a nemesis of free speech.

That oreo

Should I convert to Christianity and behave like a white American, would you label me with your racial slur "oreo" ?

You imply that if I disagree with you or your beliefs then I am hateful

I did not write this nor imply this. You are practicing deceit.

embryonic stem cells

I will advise my young blind girlfriend she is not to be given the gift of sight because you said so. She is sure to be pleased with this decision you made for her.

Let's get back to the think-pieces

I am thinking. You are not. You do not want to deal with hard truths.

I know of no church that prohibits people with tatoos

Therefore, there are no churches anywhere in America which do this. Your logic is significantly less than stellar.

As far as my ancestors killing tens of millions of your ancestors--I doubt that amount.

Holocaust denier.

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How annoying to be a half-breed and have a white label you an oreo.

Pity the young blind girl who is denied eyesight because of your personal beliefs.

How tragic this love of the lesbians who must hide themselves because of your personal beliefs.

So painful to have eyes sear a painful "S" for "Sinner" in your mind, simply for tattoos.

Such a horrible tragedy so many must suffer, must die from birth defects and disease, because Christians will not allow a cure because of their beliefs.

In essence, those people suffer at your hands. Your hands are covered with the blood of terrible sins, for the sake of your personal beliefs.

I submit Christianity is tyranny, a cruel and evil form of tyranny.

In few days, I will talk with my young blind girlfriend to explain to her why you will not allow her to have eyesight. She will come to know the truth about Christianity and will come to learn the Christian God is an exceptionally cruel god.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
Just Another Oreo

Personal attacks will not be tolerated on SGP. Please refer to our Terms of Use under the About tab before posting.

You're a half-breed? Who would have thought? My grandchildren are 1/4 black so I'm no racist. Take your rants where they are germain. Christians were fed to the lions by Romans, so should we hate Italians? I will no longer reply to you because your hatred has made you blind. But I will pray for you, because only the Holy Spirit can show you what a blood covenant really means.

I provided fair warning I would use your faith against you. I gave you warning.

You did not heed my warning, rather one of you wrote an article about me, personally, then many of you jumped right in to degrade my character, to insult me, to inflict racism.

I warned you to not go there.

I know Christians. I love Christians. You are not Christians.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Let's get back to the think-pieces

I am thinking. You are not. You do not want to deal with hard truths.

Think whatever you like. I visit this board to "deal with" political issues. I will not debate anyone on my religious beliefs or non-religious beliefs on a political blog.

I will simply ignore, and be disappointed that one of my favorite posters is posting something I have no interest in reading.

I visit this board to "deal with" political issues.

Religion has nothing to do with politics? I know better.

You are again practicing deceit.

Only requirement I have for engaging me in debate is to simply be truthful.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Thus far, attitudes expressed serve well to exemplify why the Republican party has imploded upon itself. These are the attitudes which destroyed the Republican party.

Yet a claim is made there is no connection between religion and politics.

This type of denial of truth does not lend well to a conservative cause. Denial of critical issues will not make those issues go away. There is no carpet in my blog for you to sweep truth under.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Look lady,you are not the only American Indian on this site. My ancesters are Black Foot and were killed before I could even know them! With that being said,you are way wrong. Ther have been alot of wrong commited by mankind.Our sins is why we have Christ.To be able to have the opportunity to reconcile with God through his Son. the reason I am against stem cell is because it has not been proven that it helps anything but babies must die to get their stem cells. I din't hear you complain about abortion. You obviously have not attended a church before.I don't know of any church that turns away gays or tattooes. You must not know the difference between religon and chrisitianity. But, like someone else said,this isn't the forum for this kind of discussion.You better watch yourself,looks like your racist thinking is coming to light.

You better watch yourself, looks like your racist thinking is coming to light.

I am watching myself, just as I am watching you with great interest.

Perhaps this is a teachable moment yes?

Your poorly veiled threat is meaningless; serves no good purpose.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Teri Christoph erased me! When she was finished with her iron fist censorship, this appeared as though I never participated at Smart Girl Politics. Nonetheless, here I am right back in her face.

Teri Christoph made no effort to remove insults nor racial slurs. Cristoph elected to allow insults to remain and, most surprising, she allowed racial slurs to remain. This strongly suggests to me Teri Christoph could very well be a racist.

Christoph engaged in unwarranted censorship which is a slap across the face of conservatives. The most precious right we have is Freedom of Speech. Christoph does not honor our Constitution, does not honor our right to free speech and clearly pratices left liberal style censorship to prevent truth from being known. Cristoph is not a conservative, she is simply a tyrant.

On August 5, 2009, Teri Christoph purged Smart Girl Politics of all those who object to censorship and those associated with me. A group, RINO Watch, was eliminated, dozens of participants were kicked out. This purge is much like what happened to Jews in Germany circa 1935 - 1945.

An interesting side note is multiple claims of being of American Indian blood by some participants. This is a logical fallacy of "affinity" argument which is absolutely lame brain. Participants are pleading to my emotions, attempting to beguile me into feeling affinity with them. My experience over many decades, after thousands of claims like those of having Indian blood, none prove to be true. Zero, nada, none of those claims prove true. Your odds of having Indian blood are much less than your odds of being struck by lightning in the next five minutes.

Everyone wants to be Indian. Almost none are.

na hollo ohoyo kasheho chito makali aholabi - lying despised fat old white women.

Those participants claiming to be of Indian blood are simply lying through their teeth.

More humiliating for those lying sissy girls is they have zero knowledge of my culture. They are absolutely unaware traditional American Indians would never engage in the type inappropriate activities those white girls do. My peoples will not dishonor themselves with such unsavory behavior.

I do not know about you, the reader, but my personal opinion is those participants up there would not be considered the brightest colors in the crayon box. Strikes me they are about as smart as a bucket of rocks.