Posted on 12/21/2002 12:12:15 AM PST by SAMWolf
Let me put a personal spin on the explanation for you.My lifelong best girlfriend never understood the degree of my family disfunction, untill she drove to visit me when I was stationed in New Mexico.
She had stopped at a gas station, for gas and water, and was dismayed when the clerk refused to sell water to two "indians" who walked up while she was paying her bill.She bought an extra gallon of water for the two stangers, and chased them down to give it to them.They argued with her, because they did not want her to be punished for, to them, a naive attempt at basic human charity.
Although she had known me most of my life,she never fathomed the degree of hatred for my (partial)race untill she actually saw thirsty men denied water in the desert, because they were the wrong color.
This was in 1980 something.It is still perfectly acceptable in the western states to openly exibit racial hatred for "indians", but the entire USA must bow to "african american" PC reparations efforts.
It is fortunate for my red ancestors and their friends decendants,that humor as sarcasm is highly respected in native american cultures.
I can count the number of visits on one hand, that I was allowed to know my maternal family.
That single hand beats the years of my odious white grandmother's hypocrital claim to Christianity.
I have never found anyone who can explain the hatred of Jewish people.What did they ever do that could shed light on their persecution for these many years?
In the early years of military occupation in the southwest, young Indian boys were taken from their villages, sometimes against their wishes, and brought to what were called Indian Schools run by the United States government. There, the young men were militarized at an early age and eventually sent off to war.
Indians have the right to vote on the same basis as other citizens of their respective states. In 1948 the Arizona Supreme Court declared disenfranchising interpretations of the Arizona Constitutions unconstitutional and Indians were permitted to vote as they were in most other states. A 1953 Utah State law declared that persons living on Indian reservations were not residents of the state and could not vote. That law was repealed several years later. In 1954, Indians in Maine who were not under federal jurisdiction were given the right to vote, and in 1962, New Mexico extended the right to vote to Indians.
Qualification for voting in Indian tribal elections has no relationship to the right of the Indian to vote in national, state, or local elections. Each tribe determines which of its members is eligible to vote.
God bless your friend.
I'm just stunned to hear this. What the hell is wrong with people? I have a vacation home in New Mexico, and I've never seen anything of this sort - but if I ever do, heaven help the person trying to pull a stunt like this.
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