Why Being Mormon Matters If You Want To Be President of the United States

If you read Mormon literature, Jesus is portrayed as white with blue eyes, but not because he’s a metaphor with deeper meaning but because mormons really believe that Jesus was white. The Mormon faith was founded by a guy who would get drunk and reveal his golden tablets that only he could see. (Sound familiar, Moses?)  In the book, The 17th Wife, Joseph Smith’s wife reveals his habits, beliefs and what he was really like. For instance he saw people of color, mostly Native Americans as  “marked people, filthy loathsome people cast out to live with the beasts.” (This was actually in the Mormon Bible.)

The Mormon Bible also uses the words “white someness and delight someness” to describe what people of color have lost and can only gain back by becoming Mormon. If they convert to the Mormon faith and they are obedient and loyal, their skin will turn white and of course, only white people can go to heaven. White-skinned Mormons can gain favor if they take brown-skinned children and teach them Mormonism so they too can become white.

There is a mind-blowing article that was written in the 1980′s about two black football players who both got scholarships to BYU. They were thrilled to have scholarships, but found themselves having to take a class on being Mormon. To their shock, the professor told the class that only white people go to heaven. It was a long year for them. But even blacks have a place in the Mormon religion. If they served the faith, they could enter the bottom floor of the three tier heaven.( Frank Deford wrote the article in about 1980 in the National Sports Daily.)

Many people have asked me about the secrets of the Mayan Codex’s. This is my take on it. With all belief systems they influence the culture and daily life. They are grounded in the way they see the world and the unseen. They were great observers of the Cosmic. They understood that life was part of light. They saw light as a cosmic spirit. They saw that you had it , I had it, all things that moved had it. They understood that all things have a cycle. A cycle of light was in you, me and life. A woman’s cycle ,The earth cycle, and cycles we don’t understand today. They understood light and time in a way that only Einstein really started to get in the 20th century. We will never understand what they really knew. Why? because all the books,libraries, schools were destroyed by the Spanish and the Catholic church. The Idea that the universe was a cycle of planets going around the sun or that the sun had great  influence on the earth was sacrilegious and went against catholic and christian beliefs. The Idea that these brown people were human was suspect. They had strange Ideas like entering into a trance through the use of Tobacco or Peyote was evil. The Idea that there was another dimention where you could get wisdom and knowledge was  witchcraft and evil not but medi-physic trance that we know as meditation at a “theta” level.

These neanderthal decendents were so ignoran! Blinded by there love of gold and with one hand on the bible and the other with a sword they destroyed a people of the Sun. The Mayan were so beyond there white conquers that the Spanish had no Idea of there narcissitic ploy’s. they were doing to the universal knowledge of the cosmos. Like a child who takes a valuable piece of artwork of picasso’s and declares its junk.  This junk maybe they medicine that could have healed our decease’s of our time or the use of the properties of Gravity or use of energy that we have yet to use in the mediphysics of our modern life. They burned all the books and codex’s. They destroyed all the knowing of  these great Native American Chemist and Astromoners. In there stumbling to gain control of what took centuries of study to know, they destroyed a culture. In the Mayans synthesis they came to relate the cycles and rhythms in the sky with the cycles and rhythms in human affairs ,storm patterns, climate shifts, earthquakes, cycles on the effect of both the earth and our lives.  The Spanish destroyed the Mayan encryption that were layout on the pyramids and artwork.  We only have two books from that time, The Vadician may have others but will never release them.

They didn’t see that reflection of all this knowledge in the design of the stairs and building . The math and  angles ,  the segments of life cycles of different planets that coincide with the the movement of the earth. Planets that the white man didn’t even know about. They knew about.  The Spanish neanderthal didn’t see solar years written on the wall or the holes that aligned with the moon or venus and the sun. They never saw the serpent that walked up the stairs as the sun’s shadow appeared on the steps of the great temple of the Sun. They never saw what every Mexican or Mayan saw everyday that revealed the knowledge of what the sunspots revealed to the seer’s that they revealed to the populos.  They never saw the Maya-view of daily life that was cosmic in the foods or sacred places that brought you closer to the spirit world. The plant’s that one used under the tutelage of the priest as they entered the spirit world  They never understood why some building were placed to observe the stars or that some place were so sacred that there names like “Uaxactun” meant born in heaven and they mimic the placement on the earth that was in the sky. Cities like Chichen Itza and Paleque were in aligned with celestial observations, We are only starting to realize the wisdom and knowledge of these brown skinned inferior homosapiens. Could it be that the white man is not gods chosen people? Could it be that they were centuries ahead of the european neandrothol’s ? Only out of fear has the present people started to look at what these brown people knew from there knowledge of the cosmos. This is only a start of which i shall write in the next posts on the Mayan secrets. I want to do this justice and lay the ground work for the importance of Native American Scientists and the coming events.( Part II is coming.)

For a long time it’s been known that soon brown people would be in the majority in the west and even grow stronger  in the east. At one time, this  was looked at as, “What a Country.”  We were great. We allowed people of mixed race and blacks to get educated and even run things. Well, somewhere this pride about inclusion has changed.

The way the President has been treated from the beginning is obvious. He’s not one of us … he’s anti-American. He has to fail or the rest of the world might get used to having people of color in positions of power. The fact that he epitomizes the American story of success is not what the Republicans want you to identify with . So if a guy from Harvard who was in the top of his class and on The Harvard Law Review is not an American, then who is?

Oh yeah! Manifest Destiny. The idea that Jesus wanted white people to run things. (even though he was a person of color).  I know it sounds dumb, but in their subconscious minds, there are those who have trouble seeing minorities as equals let alone as authority figures. These people need our President to fail. If this means that the country suffers, oh well. It’s the people of color that are really out of work anyway—estimates say that three to four times more minorities are out of work than white people.

What used to make us a great country was our inclusiveness. The fact that a person’s content of character is more important than where he comes from or what his race is was a tenet of our country, but now, we only say it because it sounds good, not because it’s actually something that we practice. It could be argued that Obama has been too nice or too willing to give into the right. His psychology is that of a person who is trying to please the aggressor. It may have worked to show people that he isn’t a bad black man, but republicans have no respect for him.Look at how they have tried to marginalize him as “not a real American” when his story is the American story.

There are two types of respect. The origin of the word means to “look back with different eyes.” The other meaning is more based in fear, like when you see a police car in your rear view mirror.  Obama really thought that as time went on, republicans would see him as a leader, but they don’t want to see him as anything other than a failure.

Equality, for all. It must sting that many of Obama’s proposals were Republican ideas from the past. Even the idea of a public health care system was first proposed by Eisenhower then Nixon. So the the party of old white guys has to put us into economic slavery.

Remember August of 2011, the month  when the mouthpiece of the Republic party, Rush Limbaugh laid it out on his radio show. When asked what a new republican president should do as his first action, he said that he should segregate the military. He should start reversing civil rights law and go back to the doctrine of separate but equal. Russ lives by the saying, “white is right!”

People of color have come a long way to achieve equal rights.  Come on, America, we are better than this! Or are we?

There was a time when racism prevented people of  color  from voting or going to school. But now, racism includes the inability to see a person of color as an authority figure. It’s so clear. Huckabee pushes the agenda that our president, who is of mixed race descent, is not an American. He demonizes the grandfather that Obama never knew instead of focusing on the grandparents that he grew up with.

Republicans don’t talk about Obama’s white grandfather who was a war hero in the Pacific.  Glenn Beck and Fox News keep pushing “He’s not like us.”

Can you imagine what it would be like if Obama had made any mistakes in his life. If as a kid, he stole a candy bar or got into trouble at college, they would have demonized him like no other. They would turn him into “a bad black man.” What about Newt Gingrich with 3 marriages, ethics issues when he was in congress, who is now trying to run for president. No way a person of color could run with that kind of baggage.

The reality is Obama grew up with a very solid white family and his mother was a woman who traveled the world learning more about people in other parts of the world. Sarah Palin and the racism of the right pushes the agenda that Obama is a bad black man. He is going to sell us out to the Muslim terrorists or the African nations.

Fear of people of color, whether it be brown-skinned people in Arizona  or our president, seems to be the real issue. After all, we don’t have one person of color in the senate anymore. We have few people of color who are in positions of power in our government. The sad reality is about 25% of this country  is racist. This is what  Republicans are counting on for their base.  How sick is that?

We need Republicans who have the guts to stand up to Republican racism. Where are they? I know they’re out there. I would vote for such a person if they had forward ideas.  So if you see one, tell him to have the guts to put the Right wing wackos in their place so we can get back to having a country that’s about what this country is suppose to be about: content of character and bringing value to the community.

I wrote this blog post about 4 months ago. I meant to post it and given the recent assassinations in Tucson, it seems more important to talk about what part words play in this terrible event. The media will twist it to mental health, gun control and other issues. What no one will want to talk about is what this man’s environment was like to grow up with so much hate.  As a mental health professional, I  know that there is a real thing called “shared paranoid.” Let’s see if Jared Lee Loughner’s family and environment were  part of his psychology and part of this political killing.

As an example, using gun play and words that imply violent acts, Sarah Palin is so out of touch that she is back tracking and saying that her map with the cross hairs was now a survey.  Wow, I believe that. I will have more to say about this in another post later. My mind is with the families of the victims.  Enjoy this post. Walk in peace.

I’m old enough to know how much our culture has changed and used  words as a way to spin what may be real. Remember when bad was bad. Now, bad could be good or cool. Then there are words like “hispanic” which refers to people of color or people who have a Spanish surname. It’s a new race. The original purpose of this word was was formed under the Nixon administration to watch the Cubans and Puerta Ricans. Then it became a way to refer to Mexicans. If you look the word up in the dictionary, it says, “from Spain or Portugal.” None of these people are from Spain or Portugal. This word is a form of killing our culture.

The statistician in the O J trial said, “We use the word hispanic as a trash can for anything that’s not white or black.” Wow. I have met kids or teenager who say they’re spanish but not mexican. I remember when I was a kid being mexican was the same as being “INDIO.” If you see an old movie with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor called “Giant,” the characters refer to the mexican girl married to the son of an oil giant as,”that breed and that skin.” Now, it’s a way that young mexican kids end up giving up their identities and identifying with Europeans or white people. Sad! That’s what happened to mestizo. The Spanish when they ran mexico taught that you could only own land if you were spanish. So the objective was to get to the place where you were light skinned and you could say that you were spanish. I remember mexicans saying in spanish, “Oh poor boy, he’s moreno,(brown), he will have a bad life. Then,”Oh he’s white, he will have a good life.”

Skin color matters in a racist society but its also a mark of history. I remember I gave a lecture at the university titled, “What every Native American should know.” When I finished, a native-looking women came up to me and with tears in her eyes said, “You have given me so much pride and taught me about who I am . No one teaches us who we are!”

A man at a meeting I was at referred to himself as hispanic and later, I asked him if he was mexican. He said, “I don’t like that word, my father was from spain.”

“Okay,”I said, “what about your mom?” He said, “She was from Mexico.”

It’s better to be something that sounds okay. But don’t we insult our grandparents when we do this?  The words we use do matter.

Our names like Navajo (Spanish for newcomer) are  not our names. Dine’h is the correct name. It means human being. Like most tribes, our names mean people or human beings. You have to remember the language of conquest was spanish not English. Indians in the southwest were conquered by the spanish. Our last names in our tribes are Garcia, Martinez or Velencia or some other name of conquest.

You know many native words, you just don’t realize it, like, OK (agree), kaka (deceased), Mazatlan (Valley of the deer), tamale (flat corn) or guacamole (bulls balls) funny. Look at a avacado and then look at a bulls scrotum. Funny!

What’s in a word? We need to know the origin and the history.  Even if  you’re native or not, it’s important to know what these words mean and what they do for us. And what they can do to us.

I have to give Glenn Beck credit. He uses people’s fears of muslims, aliens, and everything else that is not white, apple pie or gives the illusion of white power.

No one seems to take him on.

Why?

There is so much to challenge! He talks about the president’s religion. Well, he’s mormon. Mormons have a belief about people of color and Jews that is racist. As an example, look at the blue book of the Book of Mormon. It’s the one I have used as an expert witness to show the court that Indian children should not be adopted by Mormons. It was the reason the Indian Child Welfare Act was passed: because native children who were adopted by Mormons were committing suicide at a unbelievable rate.

For example, Chapter 3, 5 from the Book of Mormon says this about brown-skinned natives: “The Lamanites, your brethren whom you hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skin…”

And there’s this:

8. “O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.” In this part, they are taught to feel sorry for us.

And then this:

9. “Which is the word of God that ye revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins; neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness; but ye shall remember your own…and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.”

We can be saved from our darkness. Read

Nephi 30:6 And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure white (1830 edition) and a delightsome people.

The mormons disgrace our families and forefathers. If I were to believe what is in their bible, I would hate myself. That’s why so many native teenagers who were adopted committed suicide. But the most disgusting quote is the one in Nephi 12 page 21 and 23: “Unbelief they became a dark, and loathsome,and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of Abominations.”

And on page 61  21: “As they were white, and exceeding fair were white, and exceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.  And then 22:  “And thus saith the Lord God; I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities.”

As someone who has studied our history and spent time with some of the most famous elders, I have never heard of Jesus coming to America, but this is what Glenn Beck believes. This is a joke. There is not a single bit of evidence behind this belief.

Why is this important? Because Glenn Beck preaches that the president is a racist. Really? There is a racist in this conversation and this is his projection. He’s a racist with an identity complex. What he really wants is to be Joseph Smith. He needs the attention. He’s gone from a comedian and alcoholic to a spokesman for the people who believe that the white man is superior and needs to restore the America of the 1900′s.

If he want to bring up religion, then lets look at his!  The real reason for the rally is to promote his fear-based belief that people of color cannot lead. This is why he fears Obama’s  leadership.

Please someone ask him? Someone stop this insanity! I have christian friends who say that Mormons are not real christians. Where are they? Show him for what he is, we need unity not division!

Racism again? Sarah knows all!

For someone who never finished college and doesn’t read, it’s always interesting to listen to Ms. Palin. Her defense of Dr. Laura (who I do know from many years ago) with regard to using the word “nigger” is disgusting.

Here we are again, two white women who think they know racism. Interesting. It’s like me acting like I know what it’s like to be a woman and know about childbirth. My wife would kick my ass and with all rights to do that.

How arrogant for these women to act like  Dr. Laura (doctor in physiology, not psychology) knows what it’s like to live in brown or black skin and have people treat you with disrespect. For centuries, racism has been part of white America. Now that people of color have a little power, she accuses us of having a chip on our shoulder.

Maybe we carry ourselves with pride because we’ve overcome so much and then we have moments like this. We were hunted, enslaved in our own land. Our children were taken and sent to boarding schools that stripped them of our beliefs and culture. And some kids even died as part of the experience.

We were taught that we were inferior,  not allowed to vote even though we fought heroically in two world wars. My wife who is Irish would not have been able to be married to me in Nevada because until 1967, with the passage of the Love Act, people from different faces were not allowed to marry.

Yeah, we might be a little touchy. But in reality, my kids are more concerned with the next new game coming out than asking me, “Dad, what do I do when they call me a nigger or red skin?”  Or “Dad, my teacher says we are not as smart as white kids…is that true and what do i say?”

Dr. Laura aka "Dr. Yuck"

Yeah ,there might be some people who don’t like white people for what has been done to them. But they would be the Sarah Palins of the world. The “Dr.Yucks” … Laura’s of the world.

But let us not forget that there are plenty of warm human and loving white folk who would find the Palins and Dr. Laura’s disgusting for using the nigger word for their own arrogant purposes. Dr. Laura is quitting, thank God!

Now, how do we get Ms Palin to do the same?!

Does anyone have any ideas? We have too many hate-mongers in the world.

I got a call today from a twenty year old guy who I have been working with for about a year. He came to me by way of a man I had seen a couple of years ago. His name is Tony.

Tony is a 78 year old white man, who had been a millionaire then lost it all.  He had been  a lawyer who become a businessman. Tony had worked for an oil company and lost his wife to cancer. He really never got over it and a local doctor told him he wanted him to see me.

Here was a once wealthy white man who was seeing a Native American psychotherapist who came from very humble beginnings. He saw all my little tells in my office: native art and human condition sayings on the wall. He commented on my car, my Mercedes. I could see he was trying hard to see me as an authority figure. I showed him my diplomat and fellow certificate from the American Psychotherapy Association and Forensic Association.

Tony had been humbled by having lost all his money and he said it made him a better person, but he wanted it back. As we worked through his mindset and constructs, I came to help him become a more compassionate man. He was a man who wanted greatly to be loved and have all that a good woman can give a man. It was never to be. But like a lot of people who come to therapy, he found peace with what he had.

Tony wanted to be loved and give love without knowing how to find it. He started to realize that some of the things he learned were not serving him in a spiritual way. He wanted to give without strings. He wanted to help his  grandson. A grandson, who had no father. He had been sent to private school without having family ever visit and grew up to be an angry teenager.

Tony sent him to see me and paid for all the therapy. (His name is”B” for the purpose of this article. ) B was a very good client for therapy. He grew and became very open to having a good life. He had some set backs but in a year or so, we came out of it with flying colors. This C student went to get a job and is in junior college where he is really finding himself. He dropped all his drug friends and started to be very thankful to Tony for what he had done for him.

Tony called me two days ago to tell me how wonderful he thought I was and how proud he was of B’s progress. He wanted me to know he wanted to help pay for B’s old medical bills from a drug hospitalization. He sounded bad. He was coughing and couldn’t breathe very well. I told him I was concerned. I suggested he go see his doctor. That was the last I heard from him.

Tony died and I will have to start the process of not seeing “B” in therapy anymore. He did for his grandson what he could not do for himself. He gave him the opportunity to have a good life and know himself so “B”can find like kind and have a good life.

Tony will be missed and his influence will last forever. He is in a coma now and waiting for family member to be with him when they withdraw life support.

If we want to start talking about offensive words and word that have profound impact, let’s start with “Redskins.” The word Redskin comes from the dehumanizing of American Indians during the days of conquest. Assuming that the white man is the “perfect” color, he used the word Redskin to separate himself from the what he saw as the Creators perfect creation. Even the Supreme Court ruled that the football team known as the “Redskins” can not use it as trademark. The court ruled that its genus was from a derogatory word like the “N” word.

Lets get serious, if we really want to stop using offensive words that have a long history of prejudice, then let’s start with words that have become rooted in the history of real pain and suffering.

Most Americans don’t care about changing their views of native people. Even native people have started to use the word as a symbol and a way of assimilating into American society. That’s just wrong. We can’t participate in our own dehumanization. We are human beings and our tribal names have always symbolized that.

Colleges and schools have been changing their names to help with humanizing First Nation peoples. Can you believe that in the year 2010, American Indians are still fighting for some respect just as a people?

Help out by asking the football team known as the Redskins to change their name to First Americans. They wouldn’t have to change their logo. How easy that would be. It might even have a karmic effect and they might start winning games again.

And that leads to another story. The story of native people who played football. Make sure to stay tuned.

I have two young sons to go along with my older kids, who are 40, 35, 33. Yeah, that’s another post! Anyway, My 16-year old comes from school and says ,”I got in an argument with my teacher at school because of you!”

“What was that about?” I asked.

“Well it seems that Indians got the right to vote in 1924 and you said it wasn’t until the 70′s.”

“That right!” I said , “because in the southwest, Arizona, New Mexico, and some other states, we couldn’t be citizens of our tribes or vote as citizens of the U.S. It wasn’t settled until the late 40′s and early 50′s , but if you read the congressional document, it stripped us of all our eligibility and treaty rights as native people until the late 70′s. ”

“You had to cut your hair , give up religious ceremonies, and all treaty rights. It really wasn’t until 1978 when the Indian Freedom of Religion Act was passed along with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 that we could go to our own ceremonies and be counted as real citizens.”

Funny, the difference between the reality of the academics and the reality of every day life. It wasn’t good to be Indian until recent times, ask a native or mexican person who is over fifty. Lots of us didn’t even have birth certificates that came from the United States. Many of us we born at home and recieved a Certificate of Birth, sometimes issued by a court or judge. No one tells you that in the history books. Maybe thats why they call it HIS STORY!