Posted on 11/19/2014 5:48:58 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Native American women in the United States are two and a half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women of any other race. This staggering and awful statistic illustrates that there is a profound epidemic of sexual violence going on in Native communities, and lest people think this is an internal issue, much of that violence is coming from white men.
Tribes across the country are struggling with the issue and attempting to work within their own communities to heal and fight sexual violence from within, while also bridging with US government organizations and other groups to promote the health, safety and welfare of indigenous women.
Such groups have their fingers on the pulse of these issues among Native Americans, and thus, their concerns about a possible unanticipated side effect of Keystone XL approval should be taken seriously. They fear that if construction on the controversial pipeline proceeds, it could endanger Native women even more, especially in South Dakota. Their worries are based on several solid and important reasons.
One is the known and ongoing history of sexual violence against Native women, and the fact that the issue has not been resolved despite considerable advocacy work. Given the fact that Native women are already extremely vulnerable, anything that would increase that vulnerability (like huge temporary pop-up cities of pipeline workers and personnel) is a cause for concern Native women are already considered to be easy, soft targets for would-be rapists, and men who know theyre passing through are even less likely to believe theyll be held accountable for their behavior.
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I don’t buy this crap.
Of course alcohol has nothing to do with that statistic, it has to be the pipeline.
Pray America is waking
Using arguments this obscure and full of holes will not help their cause.
Anyway, the Senate voted down the Mary Landrieu Keystone attempt, so never mind.
I worry that the pipeline will attract meteorites that will then smote the cities.
There's nothing it can't do!
BTTT!
Actually, that's where this just doesn't wash.
I have seen American Indian women kick the snot out of people who gave them crap, and the idea that they are as helpless as liberal white women, for instance, is a crock.
Boom towns do have problems, and crime inevitably rises with the increase in population. Without stereotyping, there is always a contingent of drug and alcohol related crime, and rape is in there. It doesn't mean the Mongol horde is in for another round of pillaging, etc.
That's because they are around native American men.
Not my fault, not my problem.
Maybe if they laid off the firewater...
Oh yeah, Whitey is to blame. Again.
Just shut the h*** up. Go back to the casino and have another drink.
And what about the brothels enterprising women of all races typically set up near big development projects, spreading disease and corrupting the morals of the workers? I don't hear the left whining about profiteering "sex workers."
They are “approved victims”. They can do what they want.
Exactly. Next time you hear a liberal spout this nonsense answer them with the following:
Ok, Mr Progressive, so the construction crews on the XL pipeline will commit violence against women. Then, riddle me this: When 0bama passed the so-called $791 billion "stimulus bill", that was for "rebuilding our infrastructure". Why didn't you protest those "construction projects"??? Was it because
A) Those construction crews would be all female, thus not prone to violence against women>>>
B) Indian lands would be left out of those construction projects, thus no jobs would "be created" on tribal lands
OR
C) Everybody knew the stimulus package was a $791 billion boondoggle designed to redistribute the taxpayers money to local government union pension funds and would not create any jobs at all.
***Native American women in the United States are two and a half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women of any other race.***
Remember the pioneer stories of how the settlers would save the last bullets for their women, and the soldiers would save the last for themselves.
From Conservative women! Let me at them! Its ridiculous and I am not taking this anymore.
I like men and white men specifically....xo
The left, small l, goes beyond the pale for their cause. Me too. : > (
DITTO THAT~!
Now I have ****ing heard it all.
> Native American women in the United States are two and a half times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women of any other race. This staggering and awful statistic illustrates that there is a profound epidemic of sexual violence going on in Native communities, and lest people think this is an internal issue, much of that violence is coming from white men.
No, all of that violence is coming from men with Native American [sic] ancestry who pass for white men. Personally, I think the main reason for the rise in rape is the increased number of casinos.
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