Colonialism is not just a symptom of capitalism. Socialist and communist empires have also been settler empires (e.g. Chinese colonialism in Tibet).
white people can stay white, yet claim descendance from an Indian grandmother. In 1924, the Virginia legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act, which enforced the one-drop rule except for white people who claimed a distant Indian grandmother - the result of strong lobbying from the aristocratic “First Families of Virginia” who all claim to have descended from Pocahontas (including Nancy Reagan, born in 1921). Known as the Pocahontas Exception, this loophole allowed thousands of white people to claim Indian ancestry, while actual Indigenous people were reclassified as “colored” and disappeared off the public record.
Vine Deloria Jr. discusses what he calls the Indian-grandmother complex in the following account from Custer Died for Your Sins:
During my three years as Executive Director of the National Congress of
American Indians it was a rare day when some white [person] didn’t visit my
office and proudly proclaim that he or she was of Indian descent.
…I would confirm their wildest stories about their Indian ancestry and would
add a few tales of my own hoping that they would be able to accept themselves
someday and leave us alone.
…I once did a projection backward and discovered that evidently
most tribes were entirely female for the first three hundred years of white
occupation. No one, it seemed, wanted to claim a male Indian as a forebear.
Does this mean that the incessant false accusations that spoiled Native Americans are misusing ‘free stuff’ from the government were projection by European immigrant? If this projection is true, then the leaders of European immigrant community are lazy drunk alcoholic dropout who misuse taxpayers’ money for their personal luxury while their people suffer starvation and homelessness. It also means that European immigrants are thugs, rapists, vandalists, and free riders by their own choice.
Idiocy
These quotes just made me laugh.
Does this mean that the incessant false accusations that spoiled Native Americans are misusing ‘free stuff’ from the government were projection by European immigrant? If this projection is true, then the leaders of European immigrant community are lazy drunk alcoholic dropout who misuse taxpayers’ money for their personal luxury while their people suffer starvation and homelessness. It also means that European immigrants are thugs, rapists, vandalists, and free riders by their own choice.
When you consider that every source of wealth held by settler nations is stolen, it can’t be anything but projection.