Mark Charles Twitter Make America Great Again

Yá'át'ééh. Mark Charles yinishyé!

Marking Charles, the only second Native American in the history of the Us to spring into the race to the White House, began the interview with CGTN Digital by introducing himself with a hello in his tribal language "Dine Bizaad."

Wearing a tribal turquoise necklace with his hair tied in a traditional Navajo bun chosen "tsiiyee," Charles, a tribal citizen of the Navajo Nation, the biggest Native American reservation in the U.Southward., announced his bid for the acme chore on May 28 through a YouTube video. He chosen on fellow Americans to reject both "explicit" and "implicit" racism embedded in the country'due south founding documents.

Charles, who is running as an independent, is candidature on the slogan of turning "We the People" into "All the People." He believes that to brand America better and stronger, the people in ability need to focus on two basic documents: The Doctrine of Discovery and the U.S. Constitution.

"The Doctrine of Discovery is essentially a series of Papal Bulls written in the 1400s... The outset one was in 1452... This was the church building of Europe telling the people that wherever you go and whatever state you observe non ruled by white European Christian rulers, those people are not-human and their country is for you lot to accept."

Charles noted that American history tends to gloss over a night part of the by. "And that was the same doctrine that let Columbus, who was lost at sea, land in this new world – an island equally our people call information technology – and claim to have discovered it. If you call up almost it, y'all cannot observe a land which is already inhabited, it's called stealing. And the fact that to this day the U.S. calls Columbus the discoverer of America reveals the implicit racial bias, which is that the native peoples and people of color are not fully homo. And then this doctrine is a very colonial and white supremacist document which is woven into the fabrics our society."

Infographic by CGTN. /Profile image courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

Infographic by CGTN. /Profile image courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

Charles claims that white supremacy is a bipartisan value. "When we are dealing with foundations, in that location's actually a lot of understanding betwixt the Democrats and the Republicans," he told CGTN Digital.

During a TEDx Talks session in January, he said, "In 2016, Donald Trump won the U.South. presidency past candidature on the promise to 'make American great again.' Not to exist outdone by her opponent, Hillary Clinton said 'America is bully already;' in Oct 2016, in the third presidential contend she expanded by saying, 'American is great considering America is good' and Trump concurred, he said 'I agree with her… I concur with whatever she simply said.' See, they both have a broad, bones understanding. They both agreed that our by and our history which included the slavery of African people and the genocide of native peoples and our foundations which are based on the Doctrine of Discovery and the lie of white supremacy, they both agreed those things were great."

While pointing out the central problems with the U.S. Constitution, he said that it protects state-owning white males and rationalizes slavery through the criminal justice system.

"The constitution of the United states of America that starts with the words 'Nosotros the People' never mentions women or whatsoever female pronoun and it specifically excludes the Natives," Charles noted. "The announcement of independence starts with maxim, 'We concur these truths to exist self-evident, that all men are created equal,' but thirty lines later it refers to the Natives as 'merciless Indian savages'."

Charles, who is a sometime pastor, told CGTN Digital that he never prepare out to be a politician, simply it all started when he lived in a traditional Navajo Hogan for three years without running water and electricity. "While living in the reservation I began to empathize more securely the bug our communities are facing too as how a lot of the state of affairs hadn't changed over the years."

Courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

Courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

While highlighting that the vocalization of the native community has been largely missing in the corridors of ability, he said that issues like clearing cannot be solved without involving the indigenous people in the decision-making process.

"Our nation has been wrestling with immigration reforms since the early 2000s... Since then both the Republicans and the Democrats accept had the Congress, the Senate and the White House. And not one of them was able to pass the comprehensive and just immigration reform... Without Native Americans you have only one generation of undocumented immigrants trying to figure out what to do with another generation of undocumented immigrants and there'southward no integrity in the conversation."

So how hopeful is he about his chances? The fact remains that the Democratic Party enjoys the majority of support within the Native customs. Only Charles believes he is advocating a new vision. "Democratic candidates like Elizabeth Warren practise not fully empathize the root cause of the bug faced by the Natives" and that "they can only argue the necessity of having new laws… but I am proposing the need for having new ground and foundation for our laws."

Courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

Courtesy of @wirelesshogan via Twitter

Since there are no primaries for independent candidates, Charles needs to collect a significant number of signatures supporting him in all 50 states to secure a place on the ballot.

"Our research based on the 2016 election found that in all 50 states, the number of Native Americans over the age of 18 [voting age] exceeds the number of signatures required. Native Americans, this marginalized community – only two percent of the unabridged population… the group that did non receive voting rights till (the) 1940s... the group that has been disenfranchised and ignored by all political parties for centuries, we take the power to put a native candidate on the ballot in all 50 states," he told CGTN Digital.

The last time a Native American ran for president was Russell Ways, Oglala Lakota, in the 1988 ballot. He lost.

Charles is aware of that fact. But he believes his campaign could commencement a larger argue. "I am proposing in my campaign that the U.S. needs national dialogue on race, gender and class."

(Comprehend paradigm by Shane Bahn via www.markcharles2020.com)

lopezgoinge.blogspot.com

Source: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-08-30/Exclusive-The-only-Native-American-running-for-presidency--JzWhb2VLGw/index.html

Share this post