THE BRAINWASHING WE NEVER TALK ABOUT If you ever speak about those old “Cowboys and Indians” TV shows we grew up watching, understand something — that was straight-up brainwashing, and most of us didn’t even realize it. Do you know how many Baby Boomers refused to “play the Indian” as kids? Why? Because on television the Indian always lost, always died, always looked “savage,” and the cowboy always rode off into the sunset as the hero. That wasn’t just entertainment. That was psychological programming. Hollywood was teaching children Black, Native, and even white that: • White cowboys = heroes • Native people = villains • Light skin = victory • Darker or “non-white” = defeat So kids naturally wanted to identify with the “winning team.” That’s how media plants ideas in your spirit before you’re old enough to think for yourself. Whole generations were conditioned to admire whiteness and distance themselves from anything Native or African. That’s how deep the conditioning went. The saddest part? It worked. That’s why we have to talk about it now. Because what we watched as children shaped how we saw the world and how we saw ourselves. This is the truth they never wanted us to understand.