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| Tony Black Feather, Lakota, on Stronghold Photo by Brenda Norrell |
Tony Black Feather, Lakota, on the Stronghold in 2002 -- speaking out about the American flag, racism, the Black Hills and Iraq
Censored News new series 'Racism in America'
By Brenda Norrell
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Censored News new series 'Racism in America'
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
(Oct. 1, 2002) STRONGHOLD TABLE, S.D. Lakota elder Tony Black Feather told the United Nations that the American flag represents a racist nation that violates natural and spiritual laws, dishonors treaties and engages in a game plan of corporate greed.
In his statement delivered to the United Nations and distributed here on Stronghold Table, Black Feather pressed for disarmament and peace as President Bush pressed for war in Iraq.
Urging America to “come clean in the eyes of the world,” Black Feather said people often ask him about the red, white and blue of the American flag
“I tell them that the aboriginal Lakota people of this country look at this flag as a piece of red, white and blue cloth that stands for the foreign racist system that has oppressed Indigenous peoples for centuries.