No-one reads History books anymore….
Before I start on this rant, I realise this will have no effect on society, however, this is my futile attempt to educate it, and I am well aware this comment will be hidden behind a billion useless one-liners.
Here we go!
No-one reads History books anymore….
On all major channels, they keep saying the shootings lacked a motive; Theories ranged from the teen's reported neo-Nazi leanings, to depression, school bullying, a troubled family background that included a history of suicide, and the problems of growing up in an isolated and hierarchical Native American community…
How wrong could they have got it?
They base that on his doodles of swastikas on his notes, (something I bet a majority of boys have done during some period of their lives.) Or interviews of friends, Or looking around his room. See a pattern? The real cause is not Jeff, it is the community.
Ever since Andrew Jackson reversed the Indian Sovereignty, we have been either pushing the Indians towards the West, or into barren reservoirs. Why? Because we deemed their land fit for American consumption. Native Americans were last, or nearly so, in life expectancy, education, income, job skills, decent housing and economic opportunity. But they were first, or nearly so, in infant mortality, poverty, unemployment, diabetes, clinical despair and premature death.
They are a powerless people, and Jeff must have known it. Aside from Casinos, which benefit only certain segments of tribes, they live in what could be compared to as a third world country.
What is a swastika? If I asked this question to high school students, about 95%-99% of them associate it with Nazis. No question about it. Second question, where did Hitler get it from? If I asked this question, I’ll be damned if the answer wasn’t a blank “Scooby Do” look. To everyone who doesn’t know, including the media, it is an ancient Asiatic symbol of power. If one was to visit Tibet, and visit the olden temples, one would see swastikas in rather omnipresent regions. (Oddly enough, it is also a Greek symbol, of unknown religious significance.)
Power, it is one thing most modern Indians lack, and struggle even getting. It is what Jeff was ultimately after, the greatest power of all, the power over life and death.