Run to the Hills

White man came across the sea

He brought us pain and misery

He killed our tribes, he killed our creed

He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard, we fought him well

Out on the plains, we gave him hell

But many came, too much for Cree

Oh will we ever be set free?

That sounds familiar, in more ways than one, sadly.

Anyway, I was using a tape recorder to record a song I made for the Creative Response project, as a response to the art show that's going on right now and which I saw the opening last night (and then had an awesome time on the yukon riverbank) So I was in the bathroom - there's a mirror, and I love looking at myself goof off in the mirror. So I decided to have some fun.
I practiced the words to Run to the Hills for a bit, and then tape recorded myself. While I was listening to the recording, I began to act out the words and pretend to be a rocker. Anyway, so I redid it with the camera. It wasn't very hard: I get very into things when no one is watching.
 "Sounds familiar":
Well, it's a comment that I've made many times before. Everywhere the white man went and they saw that civilization was less advanced than their own, they took it over, drowned its culture, made it theirs. The americas got the brunt of it, but also Africa and Oceania. And much later, through economy, Southern and Middle Asia. And Japan, too. It's funny... In the middle ages, when both the muslim empires and the asian dynasties were more advanced than the european kingdoms (Socially, scientifically, artistically, technologically, or a mixture of these) Europe suffered no crippling invasion from nations from other continents, except perhaps the turks, but even then, they did not conquer even half of europe. Perhaps it is because they were simply out of the way. Perhaps Europe was so secluded that it's existence was considered irrelevant by other cultures. Nevertheless, when the european powers discovered sub-saharan africa and the americas, they did not hesitate not only to exploit resources, but to exploit and or get rid of the people that lived there. The africans, I believe, were too far behind to have any fighting chance against the gun toting, seafaring tourists, or were a peaceful people, which is somewhat unlikely, and the amerindians, - First Nation, I believe is the politically correct term these days - who would not give up their fertile and sacred lands to these invaders, and fought for their freedom and peace, were crushed, bio-bombed, massacred, pillaged, raped, or in canada, tortured through assimilation and put into "territories". - cages; the entire country was their territory, and should still be.
I despise the ignorance of my white ancestry. It makes me sick to think about it. It's worse since I have only that as a culture to rely on, almost like you. History class should make you want to crawl up into some derelict corner and pray for salvation for all the shit you've caused.
Don't mistake me. I'm not racist - I am against cultural bleaching, or as the taboo words go => Ethnic Cleansing, Cultural Genocide. Sounds pretty bad when it's said like that, eh? Give yourselves a pat on the back. In the last century you went from causing genocide to turning a blind eye to it, to supporting it under the table. It's not like white people are the only terrible people on the planet - the chinese did some horrible stuff to themselves, and so do african tribes, mostly to their women. That makes me sick too, but that's not comparable. Europeans did what they did to other cultures, partly out of cruelty, partly out of ignorance, and partly out of obedience. On that last bit, look up "The Milgram Experiment" on Wikipedia. Better still, here's a link.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

It'll open your eyes, if you didn't already know. Screw you europeans, through your graves and down to hell where your murders haunt you still now, 1, 2, 3, 4 centuries later. Tell you what; your descendants aren't much better than you were. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, they say.