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Cherokee Nation To Vote on Expelling Slaves' Descendants
The Washington Post ^
| Saturday, March 3, 2007
| Ellen Knickmeyer
Posted on 03/03/2007 9:06:01 AM PST by rabidralph
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Very interesting factors in this story. Here's another snip, regarding possible reasons for expelling the black indians
SNIP...Advocates of expelling the freedmen call it a matter of safeguarding tribal resources, which include a $350 million annual budget from federal and tribal revenue, and Cherokees' share of a gambling industry that, for U.S. tribes overall, takes in $22 billion a year. The grass-roots campaign for expulsion has given heavy play to warnings that keeping freedmen in the Cherokee Nation could encourage thousands more to sign up for a slice of the tribal pie.
"Don't get taken advantage of by these people. They will suck you dry," Darren Buzzard, an advocate of expelling the freedmen, wrote last summer in a widely circulated e-mail denounced by freedmen. "Don't let black freedmen back you into a corner. PROTECT CHEROKEE CULTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR OUR DAUGHTER[S] . . . FIGHT AGAINST THE INFILTRATION."
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To: marsapan
Cherokee Nation huh?!! heehee
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:07:34 AM PST
by
Shimmer128
(Molon labe)
To: rabidralph
Yes - the indians had slaves and were slave owners and slave traders. Some they bought and some they captured. The slaves were black, white and other indians.
And now they want to kick out the descendants for not being "indian enough"
This should be fun to watch. Which PC group will give in first...
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:09:42 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: rabidralph
It's a basic, inherent right to determine our own citizenry.
Does that apply to Americans, too?
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:11:20 AM PST
by
frankenMonkey
(Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?)
To: Shimmer128
Chad Smith?
Chief Chad Smith?
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:12:03 AM PST
by
michaelt
To: rabidralph
"It's a basic, inherent right to determine our own citizenry. "
It would be nice if the USA would adopt that principle, and start expelling people whose ideology includes killing us.
To: 2banana
I had no idea about all this. I'd really like to know what they do with the $22B and the all our tax money, while Indians are dirt poor and have so many social problems.
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Yes, it's funny that all other nations are proud to be pure but only America is concerned with multiculturalism.
To: rabidralph
Nice, I guess that this is the way of increasing their profit share huh?
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:15:55 AM PST
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked)
To: 2banana
Agreed! Lefties will go into full meltdown mode over this, wondering who to support. Pass the popcorn.....;)
To: rabidralph
I know where Jesse Jackson will fall, but what about Ward Churchill?
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:20:40 AM PST
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: 2banana
Yes - the indians had slaves and were slave owners and slave traders. Some they bought and some they captured. The slaves were black, white and other indians.Yup... gonna' be a lot of lib hand-wringing and brow-furrowing goin' on over this.
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:22:28 AM PST
by
johnny7
("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
To: aft_lizard
"I know where Jesse Jackson will fall, but what about Ward Churchill?"
***
What about the ghost of Will Rogers?
To: rabidralph
Don't get taken advantage of by these people. They will suck you dry," Darren Buzzard, an advocate of expelling the freedmen, wrote last summer in a widely circulated e-mail denounced by freedmen. "Don't let black freedmen back you into a corner. PROTECT CHEROKEE CULTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR OUR DAUGHTER[S] . . . FIGHT AGAINST THE INFILTRATION." Sounds like they're taking lessons from Mr Farrakhan and La Raza.
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:29:51 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(¡El proletariado del mundo, une! - Xuygo Chavez)
To: Frank_2001
To: rabidralph
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:38:23 AM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
To: 2banana
Just so you know the whole story, many many Indians were slaves also to white men and Mexican families. I have documentation to this but of course all of you already know it but just don't mention it.
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:45:20 AM PST
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: rabidralph
I say, Son, there's too much infiltratin' goin' on round 'chere!
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:49:41 AM PST
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right but never in doubt)
To: rabidralph
Some of those people are... freaks. They even got in the Bush-Bash.
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:50:12 AM PST
by
Jaded
("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
To: Frank_2001
Lefties will just bury the story and refuse to didcuss it
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posted on
03/03/2007 9:55:29 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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