Navajo: Response to hateful Coulter

What do the Indigenous want the other Americans to know?

Who said, "We didn't kill enough Indians," beloved macho-woman and FOX (News) spirit Ann Coulter? Just when she had mellowed, turned on Trump and MAGA, she's back to offend. Just when the comedians had roasted her alive, she's back to spew more hate, racism, and right wing rhetoric? Maybe it was just said for shock value and out of massive patriotism, sleeping with the flag between her legs as she does, worshiping in the Christian Church of the Holy Genocide(s), saluting one or more German leaders of the past. Oh, c'mon, you know Ann. She's nothing if not brassy, sassy, and full of false bravado. Why would she say such a thing? She said it in response to Native American professor discussing decolonization. One presumes Coulter is pro-settler colonial projects like "Israel" in Palestine and the ongoing-slow-mass genocide our government is committing in the USA.

The Roast of Ann Coulter (and poor Rob Lowe)

What has Coulter done now?

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) emphatically condemns the hateful, genocidal statement of Ann Coulter on July 6, 2025, through a post on the social platform X, declaring: “We didn’t kill enough Indians.” There is no place in society for this direct incitement of hatred and violence toward American Indian and Alaska Native people.

Continual growth through different planes of existence (as in Buddhism)

“These words are not provocative social commentary; they are a violent attack on Native people and Tribal Nations

Celebrating genocide against Tribal Nations crosses every moral line,” said NCAI President Mark Macarro. “Careless comments like this glorify the darkest chapters of U.S. history and actively endanger Native peoples' lives today. We will not sit silently at attempts to normalize this abhorrent behavior. We demand an immediate retraction and public apology — and we expect leaders of every political persuasion to denounce this abomination without equivocation.”

“Free speech does not confer a license to advocate for or justify mass murder — past or present,” added NCAI Executive Director Larry Wright, Jr. “When a public figure with more than two million followers romanticizes extermination, it fuels harassment, hate crimes, and political violence. Silence from elected officials and media outlets will only normalize this genocidal history. We call on them to speak up now.”

NCAI further demands that X enforce against vitriol like this and send a message that such inciting hate speech will not be tolerated by banning this individual from their platform. Instead of amplifying divisive and inhuman perspectives, let us turn our attention to celebrating the powerful, nation-building contributions of Tribal Nations to the United States. More

• Demanding Justice and Mutual Respect (Native American Rights Fund)
• Condemning Ann Coulter's statement | Meskwaki Nation
• Ann Coulter Says, ‘We didn’t kill...' (92QJams Baltimore | Facebook)
• Dine (Navajo) Elder (NavajoTraditionalTeachings.com), YouTube; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Golden Girl Betty White gets own stamp

It finally arrived. Today, American comedic actor Betty White (The Golden Girls, Mary Tyler Moore Show) gets her own US Post Service "forever" stamp. And that's as good a reason as any to binge some TGG, particularly the Best of Rose Nylund, Scandinavian dunderhead, her character on the famous American TV show. All hail the great feminist pioneer Bea Arthur (Maude, Dorothy Zbornak) for keeping White on the hit show.

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Nelson Mandela is reborn (video)

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Sambotin Alexandru; Recent Black History

The 14th Dalai Lama together with the great Nelson Mandela in South Africa (AP)

Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, spoke at the International tribute to Free South Africa concert in 1990 at Wembley Stadium two months after his release from prison. More

The Dharma has reached African continent

Actress Lenora Crichlow sets off to discover the story of how Nelson Mandela brought peace to his country of South Africa and what he means to people there today. She uncovers a more complex and fascinating picture of Mandela and his country than she ever imagined, discovering a vibrant rainbow nation but also learning more about the horrors of apartheid and the extent of poverty and violence. On her journey she unlocks the secrets of who Mandela really is and why his achievements are so special and so admired around the world.

Ajahn Brahm almost becomes Enlightened

Ajahn Brahm (Abbot Brahmavamso from Australia) is interviewed in Germany's Pagoda Phat Hue on his experiences with Achaan Chah (below), reputedly a great enlightened master from Northeast Thailand. Ajahn Brahm teaches the jhanas (absorptions), advocates women's ordination, and has a uniquely comical take on the Dharma making him a world-class teacher.

• Ajahn Brahm interviewed (again)
• Ajahn Brahm on women's ordination
• Buddhist origins of Christianity (Origen)

Śāriputra

"Sariputta," Burmese antique gilded laquer figurine (asianart.com)

Śāriputra (Pāli, "Sāriputta"; Chinese "Sheli Fu") was, like the female chief disciple of the Buddha, designated "foremost in wisdom." He became an Arhat (fully enlightened) renowned for his wisdom and explaining the Dharma.

He is depicted in the Theravada tradition as one of the most important disciples of the Buddha. Śāriputra came from a brahmin family and had already embarked on life as a spiritual ascetic when he encountered the teachings of the Buddha. Śāriputra had a close friend, Maha Moggallana (Sanskrit "Mahamaudgalyayana"), a Black disciple who was also a wandering ascetic. They both renounced the world on the same day and became disciples of the sceptic Sañjaya Belatthiputta before converting to Buddhism. (Read the story of their conversion).

After hearing of the Dharma from a monk named Assaji, Śāriputra sought out the Buddha and became an adherent to his teachings. The two male chief disciples are often depicted together with the Buddha, and several sutras regard interactions between Śāriputra and Moggallana (who became renowned among the early Buddhists for his mastery of supernatural powers and was designated by the Buddha as "foremost in psychic ability"). Their relics were lost and not recovered until 1851.

Sariputra, Indonesian wall depiction (ariaristides)

In one somewhat comical scene involving the two friends, a mischievous yakkha decides that it will attempt to irritate Śāriputra by striking him on the head. Moggallana sees this occurring with his "divine eye" (a clairvoyant faculty often attributed to powerful Buddhist monks, as well as other South and Southeast Asian ascetics). He unsuccessfully attempts to warn Śāriputra.

However, due to his own great spiritual mastery, Śāriputra perceives the terrible blow that the yakkha delivers as merely a light breeze. Moggallana approaches and expresses his amazement that Śāriputra barely noticed the terrible blow. Śāriputra replies in kind, amazed at the fact that Moggallana was able to perceive the invisible creature that dealt the blow.

Śāriputra was older than the Buddha and died shortly before him, an event that apparently caused great distress to Ananda (the most famous of the Buddha's disciples), the Buddha's cousin and personal attendant, who made Buddhism possible by memorizing every discourse and reciting them after the Buddha's nirvana). The Buddha gave a eulogy, noting his chief disciple for his compassion, patience and humility.

Sariputra drawing, Mexico (www.budismo.com)

Śāriputra often preached with the Buddha's express approval. Thus, he was eventually awarded the title of "Marshal of the Dharma" (Pāli, Dhammasenāpati) for his propagation of Buddhism. Furthermore, he is regarded the founder of the Abhidharma tradition (the higher or abstract-metaphysical teaching).

While depictions of Śāriputra in the Pali Canon are uniformly positive -- showing Śāriputra as a wise and able Arhat, second only to the Buddha -- his depiction in Mahayana ("great vehicle") Buddhist sources has often been much less flattering.

Mahayana "Sheli Fu" (fpmt.org)

In the Vimalakirti-nirdesa Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, Śāriputra is depicted as the voice of the less sophisticated Hinayana or sravaka (ascetic) tradition. He is unable to readily grasp the Mahayana doctrines presented by Vimalakirti and others. And he is rebuked or defeated in debate by a number of interlocutors, including a female deity (deva) who frustrates Śāriputra's Hinayana ("lesser vehicle") assumptions regarding gender and form.

A dialogue between Śāriputra and the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara inspired the Heart Sutra, a brief but essential text in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition as practiced in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan.

The central figure on these Tibetan thangkas is the historical Gautama Buddha (a.k.a., Shakyamuni), seated center. He is samyak-sambuddha, "enlightened and enlightening." He has an ornate nimbus of animals, and Dharmachakra, topping them, which represent paramitas ("perfections"). Flanking Shakyamuni are his two chief disciples, Sariputra and Maudgalyayana (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/).

• From GLOBAL ONENESS (edited and expanded for WQ)