Posted on 09/02/2015 5:41:14 PM PDT by EveningStar
“It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.”
— Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Sordid, always. And sometimes lethal, as some Native American children could attest, were they not, like Declan Stewart and Laurynn Whiteshield, dead. They were victims of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which as construed and applied demonstrates how identity politics can leave a trail of broken bodies and broken hearts.
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I’m sure that Obie from Nairobi approves of the act as used....
George will - he used to be somebody, didn’t he?
FU George.
L
Will is dead to me over his immigration treason. He could write a column about my family and I wouldn’t read it. Dead.
Thanks for posting this. I grew up in an area heavily populated by native peoples, and the version of the noble warrior that is being perpetuated by these advocacy groups is tragically false. (I am part native by blood myself, and not 10 generations ago.) Many of these people are solid citizens, but too many homes are marked by alcoholism, violence, incest and rape. I watched people abandon their children in the snow outside bars at -40 F when the welfare money came in. My uncle was a priest, and he told me it was all he could do to contain himself during confession when still another father bragged about raping his daughters. Flame away if you will, but unless you’ve lived it, you have no idea of how misguided this law is.
Did you read the article? Just knee-jerk reaction to the author.
Will is dead to me. He has been for years.
Perhaps his wife is moving from Scott Walker’s camp to Squaw Elizabeth Warren’s camp?
I had no idea this existed. This is awful. Almost everyone I know has some Indian blood including my husband.
Good post.
I won’t read George Will’s piece, but that is not to say I don’t have issues with how we treat our native peoples. I have come to the opinion over many years that we are perpetuating a deep and residing injustice by keeping American Indians separate. I think that someone somehow needs to take a stand and resolve to discontinue the reservation concept of all the separation that that entails. It would be nice and consistent if all laws applied to all our peoples. How to do that without further (yet more) injustices to them is the rub. Hopefully, minds greater than mine (which isn’t saying a whole lot) can conceive of a way to equitably bring them into the the fold and afford them equal justice under the law. Maybe I’m just dreaming?
I often go over into Oklahoma, and in the Cherokee areas see the billboards on how to report domestic violence to authorities.
Saw the same type of signs in various other Reservations out west.
They do acrue extra benefits which non Native Americans don't have.
I won’t read George Will’s piece, but that is not to say I don’t have issues with how we treat our native peoples. I have come to the opinion over many years that we are perpetuating a deep and residing injustice by keeping American Indians separate. I think that someone somehow needs to take a stand and resolve to discontinue the reservation concept of all the separation that that entails. It would be nice and consistent if all laws applied to all our peoples. How to do that without further (yet more) injustices to them is the rub. Hopefully, minds greater than mine (which isn’t saying a whole lot) can conceive of a way to equitably bring them into the the fold and afford them equal justice under the law. Maybe I’m just dreaming?
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You are so right. I would abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Give the tribes the rez lands, welcome them to the US and let them have abilities to move around and get lives instead of being stuck to the ball and chain or the rez system which basically gives government hacks jobs.
I grew up in an area heavily populated by native peoples, and the version of the noble warrior that is being perpetuated by these advocacy groups is tragically false.
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Would it be wrong of me to think of them as “first settlers” rather than native?
I know you were addressing L, but I'm with him and many others. That nasty goof-faced bastard is dead to me, and many others. Deader than Noonan.
F*** George Will.
SUMMARY: Indian Tribes have a remedy in cases of kidnapping by state welfare agencies. In some cases, the children are restored to their families where they are abused or killed.
George Will does not make any reference to the more likely cases where the state agencies kidnap children and send them to live with strangers, where they are abused or killed. For example, the government will take a child from its family and send it to a homosexual couple so it can die as a sex toy.
It makes me sad.
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