I’m from the Lenape Tribe.
There’re no full blooded Lenape alive.
Interracial is assimilatory genocide,
especially for Indigenous and Minorities worldwide.
Especially when specific suggestion on a mass scale is applied.
For many tribes, Interracial was the only way to survive.
It was also forced upon the Indigenous & the Enslaved by colonizers. The same culture that grew into the “villain as sexy, evil as intriguing” modern culture we find today.
Corporations and influential supporters of interracial see it as a necessary step to a united one race future, yet these are the same people that celebrate racial diversity, while attempting to bring it to an end. However, they’ve yet to see, that race itself is an opportunity to learn and practice peace between peoples, species, & the unknown. Modern culture has thus equated race with conflict, rather than an opportunity to grow. If we miss that chance to practice peace and coexist, the time may come where we’re faced with this on a galactic level, or spiritual level as we always are. We find this same logic in modern capitalistic medicine. Attempting to remedy the symptoms, instead of healing the root. Heavy coffee drinker with a lot of anxiety? Here’s a profitable to us script of tranquilizers instead of flat out saying it, “coffee isn’t for you,” as that’s heresy in a culture that champions quantity over quality. Speed over meaning. Novelty over depth. Profit over health itself.
What is the optimum path for those already multi ancestry?
I’ve listened to my heart, and it’s brought me to find that the most moral path for me specifically in terms of reproduction, is to create myself. To accept ourselves to the point of not wanting to change a thing. For me that would be European & Indigenous ancestry. When I go full Native, I become the White Guy, When I go full European, I become the Indigenous Guy. When I find that rare happy medium like myself, I become myself.
Then the thought arises, “oh no not me in Female form,” I couldn’t stand that. As we often equate ourselves with our past, not who we are today. We often disregard our personal evolution in our genetic identity. We thus assume our children will become all the things we’ve already overcome. That’s like assuming the Europeans of today are out to remove us from our homes, ready to purchase our lives, our dreams, our labor, and our spirit sold to them by our tribal rivals. Today’s modern culture of Romanticizing the villain, is an attempt to make peace with our personal past. However, we can achieve that peace with our past just by finding who we are today. We are new today, with new obstacles to strengthen us.
It’s always heartwarming to see things like Rihanna & Drake together. They found the beauty in themselves in shared resonance. They found an understanding in each other, they couldn’t find anywhere else.
I’ve witnessed it personally when two worlds collide and only one is treated as “the real one,” the “normal one,” & the one that’s allowed to survive.
I’ve seen love taken from the Black Woman, like home away from the Indigenous
I’ve seen their absence in nearly every beauty ad. I’ve seen their place standing next to their men replaced in nearly every commercial portrayal of Black relationship. I’ve seen it seep into entertainment and then assumed the social environment to tune to.
When asking these corporate entities why? The attempt to cast the spell. “It’s the future.”
stereotype warfare
The same way stereotype myth warfare was used against Asian Males in attempts to dampen their sexual success with other races, it was used in attempts to hurry this new “Blackless” future, where mixed race was their only surviving descendants.
How the stereotype formed
In the America’s, it started with the namesake of America himself. Amerigo Vespucci in efforts to other the Indigenous, wrote how their penises would swell to deformed sizes, while also oversexualizing and animalizing their Indigenous female population. They knew that exaggerating the sexual features of the Indigenous, they’d exaggerate the threat, thus fueling the hatred needed for war and elimination. We’ve grown a lot, though we find a kinder version of this same psychological warfare today, though the threats are often built upon other fabricated existential threats, like labor.
If we compare tribal photos from the Americas, Africa, Aboriginal, etc. to nudist festivals in places like NYC, we find equality.
The Utopian Future I envision:
I envision a future where all the beautiful languages of today survive. All the beautiful arts of all the worlds cultures remembered, always in our pallet of creativity. I envision a future where all the races of today not only survive but thrive. Peace is a practice, not an endpoint. The Peace Treaty between St. Tammany & William Penn & the cultural opposites they represent will forever live on, where we all can coexist in welcoming friendship, where everyone is respected equality, as we all have unique perspectives to teach and further the growth of the whole.
Finding the value modern culture tries to erase with soft assimilation
The most tragic thing about all this is how internalized the “hierarchy” taught upon us is. Non White races see dating White as dating “up.” Of course they would, as the laws of today grew from forcing out the cultural practices and values of non European cultures. The school structure and testing of today is all set to enforce a Eurocentric way of life and values. Today we reclaim the ways of our ancestors not as flaw, but of reverence. No human system is permanent, and no human system is 100% flawless. We may very well find ourselves in a place where the customs and values of our ancestors are finally celebrated. As the world grows more and more disillusioned with the emptiness of consumerism & its deleterious effects on environment and thus ourselves: civilization will grow ready to accept the very values it originally wished to extinguish.
Soft assimilation happens when one side of a child’s heritage is treated as optional, decorative, or inconvenient.
But every child deserves the fullness of their lineage.
Today we overcome “Only one culture gets to be the default.”
Every culture stands in its own light, with the right to survive.
After writing this, I find that Indian Americans from India are facing forced assimilation to this day.
Good immigrant vs. bad immigrant framing
The line “For those who have assimilated, we thank you” is the tell. It sets up a hierarchy:
- Assimilated = acceptable
- Unassimilated = unwanted
This is exactly how assimilationist ideology works: it rewards cultural erasure and punishes cultural continuity.
🔹 Assimilation as a rule of belonging
The phrase “Assimilate or we don’t want you here” is not about laws or safety. It’s about cultural control. “We know better who you should be.”
It echoes the same logic used historically against:
- Indigenous peoples
- Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants
- Chinese and Japanese immigrants
- African Americans moving into white neighborhoods
- Latino communities
- Middle Eastern and Muslim communities
The target changes. The structure stays the same.
🔹 The Rhetoric of “American Culture” as a Weapon
There is no single “American culture.” There never was. But assimilationists treat their own norms as the default, and everyone else’s as optional, decorative, or inferior.
This is exactly the dynamic so many of us have lived: only one culture gets to be the default, and everyone else must shrink themselves to fit it.
The irony is that this rhetoric is not only ahistorical, it’s the opposite of the values that shaped the vision of American identity at its birth
St. Tammany & The Birth of The Original American Identity
Long before “American culture” was weaponized as a tool of exclusion, the colonies were looking for a model of what a distinctly American identity could be. They didn’t choose a European king, a general, or a conqueror.
They chose Tamanend: St. Tammany.
He became the “Patron Saint of America” not because he represented dominance, purity, or cultural hierarchy, but because he embodied:
- Sovereignty without domination
- Freedom without rebellion
- Peace without passivity
- Leadership rooted in relationship, not coercion
Colonists celebrated him precisely because he represented a different way of being human on this land. One that rejected the rigid hierarchies of Europe. St. Tammany societies, festivals, and iconography were built around the idea that the new American identity should be:
- plural, not uniform
- relational, not authoritarian
- rooted in mutual respect, not cultural erasure
In other words, the Original American identity was inspired by Indigenous values of coexistence, not assimilation.
The Polar Opposite of Today’s Assimilationist Rhetoric
Compare that to the rhetoric we’re seeing now, people declaring that immigrants must “assimilate,” that only one culture is legitimate.
This is the exact inversion of what Tammany symbolized.
Where Tammany represented cultural coexistence, today’s rhetoric demands cultural submission. Where Tammany embodied sovereignty rooted in relationship, today’s rhetoric enforces dominance disguised as “American values.” Where Tammany stood for pluralism, today’s rhetoric insists on uniformity.
The tragedy is that the version of “American culture” being enforced today is not the original one—it’s a later invention, built on erasure, fear, and hierarchy.
The Original American identity was not about forcing people to abandon their cultures. It was about imagining a society where many cultures could stand.
Reclaiming the Original Promise
To invoke St. Tammany today is not nostalgia, it’s a reminder that the United States once imagined itself differently & that vision lives on in all whom remember. That its Original symbols pointed to a future where:
- difference was not a threat
- belonging was not conditional
- and no single culture claimed the right to be the default
The rhetoric of forced assimilation is not “American.” It is a betrayal of the very values that helped shape the country’s original identity.
St. Tammany’s legacy offers a different path, one rooted in sovereignty, relationship, and the right of every culture to survive without shrinking itself to fit someone else’s idea of “normal.”
This is your America
I Wish every home unique. Every road unique, as it truly is. The wisdom of India, China, Latin America, Africa, The Middle East & anyone who wishes to experience their miracle of life here, know you are welcome and you’re hearing that from a double descendant of St. Tammany himself. With that, let your coexistence be protected.