Posted on 03/24/2016 5:18:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
My liberal friends ask me from time to time why I hate government. I don’t hate government, of course. It’s a necessary evil. But I do hate much of what is done in the name of government because many times it is an unnecessary evil. Such is the case of a 6-year-old girl named Lexi.
Lexi has lived the vast majority of her short life in foster care, the last 4 ½ years with the Page family in California. Her parents are not dead; they’re degenerates – addicts who have spent time in prison. They don’t have custody, nor do they seek it. But their tribe … that’s another story.
Lexi, it turns out, is 1½ percent Native American; Choctaw, to be precise. As such, the Choctaw tribe essentially has claimed ownership of her.
When I say “ownership” I don’t mean to imply something akin to slavery, I mean to flat-out say they are treating this child like she is an old car or pair of pants over which they can assert their will. That concept would turn the stomach of normal human beings, but thanks to government and the perverse progressive art of identity politics, it’s all perfectly legal.
Lexi has been taken from the Page family, who sought to adopt her, and placed with step-second cousins because the government, in an attempt to make up for the horrible treatment Indians faced at the hands of people long since dead, passed the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law, passed in the 1970s, requires Native American kids to be placed with Native American parents.
Of course, even a child could recognize the fact that step-second cousins are not parents, nor are they blood relatives. Furthermore, they aren’t even Native Americans. They’re just people whose names you struggle to remember at family reunions and funerals.
But what they are in the case of Lexi is the Choctaw-chosen guardians for a child who is barely, if at all, related. Lexi is no more a Choctaw than Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts who lied about her ethnicity to get a high-paying job. But because of the law, the Choctaw can do with her as they please.
The Choctaw released a statement reading, “The Choctaw Nation desires the best for this Choctaw child. The tribe's values of faith, family and culture are what makes our tribal identity so important to us. Therefore we will continue to work to maintain these values and work toward the long-term best interest of this child.”
Did you spot what’s missing from that statement? Her name, for one. Lexi isn’t a human being, she’s “this Choctaw child” – a commodity they own and can dispose of as they will.
Also missing is any shred of reality. Where were the “tribe's values of faith, family and culture” when Lexi was a baby living with degenerate addicts? Where was their concern then?
To call Lexi “this Choctaw child” is to deny her individuality, her humanity; and the tribe’s ownership claim is akin to the racist “one drop rule.”
Lexi has now been ripped from the only family she’s ever known because the progressive left values racial identity over everything else. You aren’t an individual, you’re your skin color, your race, your income, your gender, your sexual orientation, your…whatever. Anything but an individual.
Lexi is simply the latest collateral damage of another left-wing racist idea – children need to be raised by someone of their own race or they are somehow denied their “cultural identity.”
Through this thinking, groups of people can be manipulated, turned against either other. That’s the left’s key to electoral power.
Lexi’s fate doesn’t bother leftists at all. If progressives haven’t been deterred or even bothered by the more than 100 million murdered and the hundreds of millions more whose lives have been destroyed by their policies, what’s one more little girl?
The evil is the identity politics in the first place that would accept this treatment of a human being.
The worst part is it works.
Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Indian Child Welfare Act, all branches of the same rotten tree of progressivism. Lexi is just the latest victim; there will be more. There are always more.
No, I don’t hate government. I hate what unchecked, progressive government does.
He’s wrong. It has nothing to do with PC.
Native American tribes have sovereignty, and he’s speaking of a law that was passed when white people stole/bought/adopted Native children and depopulated the reservations.
This law on the books from decades ago was to stop the practice and identify tribal affiliated members. In courts, the Indian Child Welfare Act trumps state and Federal laws.
My understanding is that the foster family had this child and the native family wanted her back when she was an infant and the foster family fought it.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how much native blood she has - a treaty is in place and the government is required to honor it.
There are no words to describe how pathetic and stupid these Indians are. How about a trade. Give them their stupid Redskins name and take the child back. Sports teams using Indian images are honoring to their legacy, but these morons have squandered it.
Might be time to deliver a truckload of new blankets to that tribe.
It doesn’t end there. Black racist social workers will tear black kids from white families to give them an authentic black American family experience.
When identity politics rules the roost, people’s humanity takes a back seat to their presumed ancestral origin.
Even if that’s not something they care about in the first place. Government can do more evil than good even with the best of intentions.
Excellent idea!
Black kids to be placed with Black parents.
White kids to be placed with white parents.
Black girls to marry Black guys.
White girls to marry White guys.
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One true sign of Liberalism is its inconsistency.
Maybe Angelina and Brad or Madonna could step in and try to add Lexi to their child menageries. /sarc
1.5% ... wow. So what is the cutoff where a person is no-longer considered native american? 1.0%? 0.1%? 0.00001%?
I ask because going back through my maternal grandmother's family tree there were apparently some rather controversial frontier settler types. It is very likely I've got more than a little native american in me.
Let's do the math. ('cause I'm an engineer and I actually like this stuff) Going back, assuming no inbreeding, each generation doubles the number of ancestors you have. There's you (1), there's your parents (2), there's your grandparents (4), there's your great grand parents (8)... Assuming only one ancestor of pure blood of any type that would be one person in your great great great great grandparent's generation. At that point your family tree is 64 people wide. Oh, now for the fun part. Assuming about 30 years between generations (though it was probably a little less long ago) that means for people of my generation (moderately old farts) my great great great great grandparents were born roughly about the time the revolutionary war was ending, maybe just a few years after that.
So, how much of a familial connection do you think I feel to someone I've never even heard of, one of 64 ancestors, born in the time of Washington and Jefferson? Yeah, not much. How much do you think this little girl identifies with a single ancestor from say sometime between the war of 1812 and the civil war?
I don’t think that anyone has mentioned something.
Show Boat is a 1927 hit musical, which became a hit movie in 1951. The leading lady Julie La Verne is a mixed-race woman who passes as white. Steve Baker, the leading man, is white. The two fall in love and plan to be married. However a jealous man tells the local Sheriff about her being mixed race, so the Sheriff plans to come aboard the boat and arrest the couple for the crime of miscegenation, cross race marriage.
Much is made of the idea that if a person has so much as “one drop of black blood” in them, they are legally black.
So the leading man makes a small cut on her hand, and drinks a drop of her blood in front of witness, so that he too can claim that he has “one drop of black blood” in him, so that their marriage is legal, not miscegenation.
In the 1920s, and ever since, to a great extent because of this musical, the theory of “one drop of black blood” being in a person has been utterly discredited, and is seen as ignorant and bigoted.
So how is being 1.5% Choctaw *any* different?
By pointing out this comparison, hopefully people will realize how utterly ridiculous this claim of ownership is.
“How much do you think this little girl identifies with a single ancestor from say sometime between the war of 1812 and the civil war?”
Wait until she spends the rest of her youth and at least the beginning of her adulthood in the company of white hating native-Americans that cannot be racists teaching her victim entitlement to see how she identifies.
Right there, with the degenerate addicts.
“you’re your skin color, your race,” - Democrats
“In the coming racial wars, a man’ uniform will be the color of his skin.” - George Lincoln Rockwell
I don't know, but if you ask around, you'll find that nearly everybody in the country is "part-Cherokee."
If you really want to work some math, try to determine what the chances are that you'll actually carry a chromosome owned by any particular one of those original ancestors. I don't know myself, but I've been told the odds aren't good.
Your post should have a spoiler alert. Show Boat (the movie) was on my movie bucket list to see. Now it’s ruined for me.
I’m 1/32 Choctaw, what do I get, they got a casino? Indian cigarette business.
Is the Choctaw nation now lowering the blood % necessary to have a claim on tribal resources?
he’s speaking of a law that was passed when white people stole/bought/adopted Native children and depopulated the reservations.
The law, passed in the 1970s
All that was happening in 1970?
No, it happened in the early part of the century, actually.
I’m not really sure how many children were impacted, but it was enough that the children were integrated to American society and have no attachment to their heritage.
That bit was just one small part of the play and the movie. It is still worth it to watch. The play and movie cover some 40 years in the life of the riverboat. And that doesn’t even mention the great show tunes they used.
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