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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back and revolution never gather. We pulled back and
curtain all the myths that you've been force fed like
a Thanksgiving turkey I missed the Indians Today's episode Thanksgiving,
or as I like to call colonization, and ready cram
bartery sauce. Now, before you go saying, oh, this is
another anti holiday rant, let me clarify. I'm not here
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to ruin your turkey. Nah, the job's are already been
dooe by your mama when she didn't watch that turkey
with lemon juice. Y'all over here eating salmonilla environables. But
you're talking about I'm gonna ruin it for you man.
Y'all need to get you off her street. No, today
we're gonna talk about that Thanksgiving. This is just problematic.
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It's a whole pr campaign for genocide. So bunker love,
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Speaker 1 (02:20):
I guess the Pilgrims, You know, those happy little settlers
that landed at Plymouth Rock and started a tradition of
goodwill with the wamping Ox people. Yeah that story is all,
but yes, it is a real tea. The first things
Given didn't start with some Kumbaya moment of unity. Now,
the Pilgrims were starving, diseased, and dying got alarming rates,
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and the wamping dogg didn't help out of the kindness
of their hearts. They hoped because they thought that an
alliance with the Pilgrims was going to say them for
rifle tribe. Guess what it didn't. Now, what it did
do was open the door for colonization, land theft, and
oh yeah, centuries of systemic oppressure. Go figure. By sixteen
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seventy five, just a few decades after the first so
called Thanksgiving, the Wampanog population had been decimated by war,
disease displacement. But yeah, sure, let's celebrate their contribution with
some freaking cranberry sauce. I do like cranberry sauce. That's
not the point. Now, here's where the modern grievances come in.
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At every year, somebody finds some new reason a bitch
about Thanksgiving. Consumerism is ruining Thanksgiving. Oh no, Black Friday
starts at six pm now, and your fat ass can't
water to Walmart fast enough to get that five dollar toaster.
Crime me a freaking river. Family stress is so hard
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to deal with all these family members flying in. Oh
you mean spending time with your racist uncle who thanks
Pilgrims and Indians is a Disney movie? Huh. I can't
relate to that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Onie.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh my god, we have to take care of the environment.
Who's gonna take care of the environment if we don't. Yes, Karen,
the carbon footprint of your turkey is awful, but can
we please focus on the literal footprints of colonizers who
trampled on indigenous sovereignty. First, let's back this up with
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some number shallow. According to a twenty twenty two U
Gov poll, twenty one percent of Americans believe that Thanksgiving
should be redefined to reflect Native American perspectives. That's twenty
five people who are just tired of pretending just be yes,
it's about gratitude and togetherness. Meanwhile, in twenty twenty, forty
seven percent of the Americans said Thanksgiving was a source
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of stress through the financial pressures and family arguments. Oh
poor you imagine the stress of seeing your land stolen
from you and treat is ignored for centuries only for
those that stole it from you. To throw trash out
they called window on the interstate going ninety miles, but
all on the way to a damn concert, You freaking heathens.
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My favorite stat, fifty percent of the food that is
prepared for Thanksgiving gets wasted. You're literally throwing away food
while there's Indigenous communities out there are struggling for clean
water and some kind of resources. You're still worried about
that water down, gravy say or pour it down to
seek and get over here and eat. For Native America's
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Thanksgiving is in the day of celebration. It's a national
day of warning. While you're debating or whether you want
a deep fry or oven roast turkey, they're mourning the
loss of their land, their culture, and county's lives. And
let's talk about the reservations for a second. The US
government loves to say, well, we gave the Native American lane,
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but did you? Though most reservations are health in the
federal trusts, meaning that the indigenous tribes don't even have
full control over their own lane. Imagine someone's still in
your house and then charge it you rent to stay
in the basement. Does that sound God? No? So why
does it sound okay for them? If you're filling attacked, good,
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it means you're listening. But don't worry. You don't have
to cancel Thanksgiving. But let's just stop pretending that it's
all about gratitude and harmony and all that other nonsense.
Here's what you can do instead. Educate yourself, learn the
real history. Start at the Smithsonian National Museum for the
American History. That's a great place. Support indigenous communities by
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donating to organizations like the Native American Rights Fund or
even to local tribes. Acknowledge the land that you live on.
Do some research and find out what indigenous tribes lived
where you live right now, and then share that information
with your family. Or if all that is just way
too hard for you, just sit there an awkward silence
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at the dinner table instead of arguing about who won
the Tyson J. Paul fight. Thanksgiving isn't about gratitude. It's
about ignorance. And if you're not ready to confront that,
then maybe you shouldn't have seconds on that pie. And
if this made you mad. Good use that energy to
do something productive, like tune again to our Native Taxation episode.
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Because if you thought this one was spicy, that one
there is a ghost pepper marinated and hot sauce and
covered in white pepper. Boy, it is boe it. But
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Speaker 1 (08:27):
Welcome back to the Revolutionary Album, where we ask the
tough questions, call out the hypocrisy. It paid taxes for
the privilege of getting screwed over on land that was
stolen in the first place. Yeah, let's talk about it.
The Native American situation, or, as the government likes to
call it, the long con of sovereignty strap being people
is about to get dark, just like you move when
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you realize that you've been paying for the circuits that
you didn't even ask to be a part of. So
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he's a fun little question for all you enlightened beings
out there. Why is it that the people whose land
was stolen from them but still forced to pay an
income tax to the very government that's stolen from them
in the first place. I mean, seriously, this is like
robinsone's house that they're charging the rent to stay in
the garage. Yeah, you can stay here, but just ignore
the big gun in your head, and you know, pay
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up big brother every month. But don't worry. It's not
all bad. The US government is very generous. They created
something called voluntary compliance for taxes. Yeah, you heard that right,
You can voluntarily comply. What a concept. Sounds great until
you realize that voluntary in this contest is the same
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as being voluntarily mugged. Yeah, sure, you don't have to
hand over your wallet. But tru buddy, you want to.
You know, some people say, bro, they get to stay
on reservations and they ain't gotta pay all the taxes? Man,
what else did you vote from us? Man? That's true,
all right? I forgot living on a patch of land
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that was generously set aside at the having most of
it stolen from you is such a sweet deal. I mean,
if I could choose between my ancestral homeland and a
chunk of isolated dirt that the US government controls to
a trust system, I mean, I definitely take the dirt.
Who wouldn't. Now let me break this down for those
of y'all still trying to make sense of it. The
land on these reservations isn't even fully owned by the tribes. Nope,
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the US government holds it in a trust. You know
what else they holding a trust? Your patience? Because what
they're really saying is is that we'll give you this
land bag kind of, but don't get any ideas of
doing anything with it without our permission. It's like letting
you borrow your own car while they keep the title. Look, mister,
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I get it, but they're still US citizens and they
must pay their federal taxes. Oh thanks for the enlightenment, captain,
I could see clearly. Now, yeah, they're US citizens, forced
to be citizens in the country that colonized them, violated
their treaties, and continues to treat them like guests on
their own land. And let's not forget that these citizens
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are voluntarily complying with taxes that fund programs to keep
colonization alive and well, trapping them on their own small
piece of land. Huh, nice job, uncle Sam. Look at here.
What your missing is is if they just stay on
the reservation, they don't have to pay state taxes. Oh
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the one tiny asxemption, the Constellation Prize for centuries of
genocide and broken promises no state taxes to stay out
of the state's way. You know, I'm actually surprised they
didn't throw away in the qpop for free coffee while
they were at it. You know, just I'm sorry about
the whole genocid thing, but you know, just stay right
here and he hey, here's the Starbucks on us. Okay, Now,
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let us get real. We got treaties that were broken,
lands that were stolen, coltures that were utterly destroyed, and
the the sentence of the ones that were victimizds are
not being told that hey, pay us for the privilege
of living here. I'd say it's ironic, but that doesn't
even begin to cover it. It's like a fireman setting
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your house on fire and then sending you a bill
for putting the flames out after they moved into your house.
Anybody thinking of Hawaii. You know, if we really want
to go for a dystopia onner, we could just start
charging the Native America's an ets out feed like, sorry,
you've been etsout from your land for generations, but we're
gonna need you to start chipping in on the cost
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of pretending to care about you. Yeah, they should just
go ahead and call it a sovereignty surcharge. Oh but
don't worry, the system works. We've got this. It's teeth
amendment that allows Congress to tax income from whatever source
derived because you know, robbery is a source too, and
the IRIS is here to make sure everyone voluntarily complies,
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because nothing says freedom like being forced to participate in
the system that was built on your ancestors suffering. Let's
be clear, this is not about taxes. This is about
the continuing to squeeze the last drop of dignity and
autonomy from a people who have been historically screwed over
in every conceivable way. It's colonization two point zero, only
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this time they don't need guns. They got taxes. It's
the same control, just with the polished legal framework. But hey,
at least we got our federal InCom tax system to
keep the wheels of in justt the spinning. Because if
there's one thing we all can agree on is that
nothing says progress like taxing people for existing on land
that you stole. So next time you hear somebody talking
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about voluntary compliance, remember it's only voluntary if you're not
the one who's history land and rights are not being
systematically erased. And if you ever catch yourself thinking or
wondering if taxes are a fair deal for Native Americans
living on reservations, remember this one thing. The US government
has already collected their payment. It was called everything. Well
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that's off of today on Revolutionary Yacht. And I hope
you are as thoroughly pissed off as I am, and
if not, you clearly have not been paying attention. But
tune in next week as we break down the concept
of freedom in a world where only a few get
to actually decide what that means. So stay angry, stay aware,
and don't let the system grind you down, Baby revolutionary
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