I live here, Diehl isn’t going to win. My hope is that he posts more than 43% of the vote.
Case closed.
“Comments...please.” “The great state of Massachusetts should be ashamed...”
Two words; Barney Frank
Are you from Assachusetts ?
Just get rid of public employee unions and every state in the Union would magically turn red.
Ping
Anyone who votes for Sackoshitea, Liawatha, Fauxcahontas, Psychgewea, etc, is INSULTING us real Indians. I say this as a Massachusetts resident. Here is something I posted in another thread when it was discovered that Faux had 1/1064 Peruvian, Mexican or whatever, and The Cherokee repudiated her claim:
I don’t know about the Cherokee, but other tribes (including mine) never go by the raciss “one-drop-rule”.
One’s blood is never checked. People as white as snow are embraced by the Tribe when they marry into it, live the culture, celebrate the identity, and embrace the customs. History is replete with stories of frontier people, who either through their own volition, or circumstances beyond their control, began to live with a Tribe and eventually become part of it. There are even Hollyweird Movies that have that as their main theme, such as Little Big Man and Dances With Wolves.
In my own family, my Dad’s Grandfather (three generations ago) was Chief of a small MikM’aw clan in New Brunswick Canada. His wife Salome, was a pure blood Inuit. Because my Grandfather came to the US because life was better there, he hid the fact that he was part MicM’aw. It was a family secret because prejudice was rife against Indians.
My cousin got really deep into genealogy and went up to Canada to check out baptismal certificates and found a strange word on the documents of all my ancestors on Dad’s side...the French word “SAUVAGE” which, of course, means “Savage”...which is what the French people called Indians. Which is a pretty awful thing for a priest to write on a baptismal certificate, but there you go.
My sister moved to Maine, embraced the MicM’aw culture, and was welcomed into the Tribe along with her husband, no blood test required.
Evidently the Cherokee do it a little differently, using a roll list from The Trail of Tears as their starting point.
Did you know that when the French explorers came to the Americas, they came as Frontiersmen and DID NOT bring women and children with them. So they married into the MicM’aw tribe and thus French names like Landry, Sinclair, LeBlanc, Hashee, etc, became very common among Canadian Indians.
And...The French-Speaking MicM’aw also suffered an exile, just like the Cherokee, called “The Great Expulsion”, and walked as far as they had to find a French-Speaking community. Some of them ended up in Louisiana! We call those interesting, Zydego-playing, clog dancing, People the “Cajun” which is, of course, short for “Canadian”.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow chronicled this History in the long poem “Evangeline”. I gotta read that one again, as it is the story of my people.
So, what the Cherokee Sec of State is PERFECTLY correct and reasonable.
BTW...I consider myself 100% AMERICAN and have NEVER checked the “Native American” box on ANY application.
Just Sayin’.
That should be Faux-ca-hontas.