White people 🦬

"The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground."
—David Grann, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
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While The Branson Family continued to show sincere interest, I forged ahead with my lecture series on the bison we sold at the Tulsa coffee shop where I worked.
The young daughter wearing a "Jesus loves you" shirt was smiling and nodding with all of the conviction in the world.
Our bison is from the Osage Nation just west of Tulsa County, I said. We were their first wholesale customers.
- What I didn't say was that the bison had nearly gone extinct thanks in part to mass killings by white people.
I did say that the Osage were managing their herd today on a vast ranch they purchased from the founder of CNN. I didn’t say that the land had once belonged to the Osage.
I also didn't say the Osage at one time owned 1.5 million acres in the area before the land was gradually fragmented and fell into new hands.
- I did say the Osage Nation was the focal point of the Martin Scorsese film set in Oklahoma "Killers of the Flower Moon." 🌙
- I didn’t say the film portrayed swindling, deceit, and violence directed at the Osage by white people during the 1920s.
But as I talked, MAGA Dad stunned me. He had loved "Killers of the Flower Moon" and believed it was an important book and movie.
My mind stormed with dissonance. Is this a prank?
He went further. MAGA Dad expressed genuine sorrow over the historic mistreatment of Oklahoma’s Native American tribes.
He was so charming, I wondered if he might be drunk.
I'd just automatically assumed that he and his family wouldn't care about such things.
My subconscious mind had judged them before I had a chance to consciously judge them.
Our minds do this every minute of every day.
- next time "We're sometimes humble just to be flashy."
- listening T. Rex "20th Century Boy"
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