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So President Obama has included Sitting Bull as one of those heroes worth emulating<\/a>.\u00a0 We all remember him, chief of the Sioux nation that pretty much wiped out the 7th Cavalry led by General\u00a0George Armstrong Custer, even though he probably didn\u2019t actually take part in the battle of the Little Big Horn.\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s not really much to see there.\u00a0 Sitting Bull usually got passing grades even when I was a kid in the 70s.\u00a0 Custer was seen as being foolish in his enterprise, and ended up paying the price along with his men.\u00a0 They even had songs lampooning the event in the 1960s.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Now, there could be some concerns about this, not the least of which is other Plains Indians who sometimes object to the heroic portrayal of the Sioux Indians.\u00a0 They often tend to see the Sioux as very hostile and imperialistic, seizing land from others and absorbing their people against their will into one Super-Nation.\u00a0 That could be a reason to object I suppose.\u00a0 Others might want to point out that while America\u2019s list of atrocities is pretty long, American Indians were usually pretty good at making their own list, such as how they treated the troops of the 7th.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

My guess is, Obama being a post-modern progressive, doesn\u2019t really care what happened to Custer one way or another.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t his point. \u00a0Or he\u00a0might not\u00a0think much about it beyond \u2018cool Native American kicks White\u00a0European Imperialist butt\u2019, if he thought about it that much.\u00a0Likewise, that the Sioux Indians could be anything other than the perfect examples of Utopian love and peace may have escaped him as well, especially if he watched too many showings of Dances With Wolves<\/em> or Avatar.<\/em>\u00a0In all, I doubt at worst it represents anything other than the influence post-modern progressive ideals, manafested in multi-cultuural education, had on the man, if it even does that; ideals and biases he is as unaware of as The Cutline<\/em> is of its own biases against FOX News, or as FOX News is of its own biases in making a stink out of this in the first place.\u00a0 Bias is, after all, a lot like body odor.\u00a0 You tend to recognize it in others long before you recognize it in yourself.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"