I always thought that racism was wrong.
But, if your skin is red; and your family background is Native American; then apparently it’s ok to have a set of laws, benefits and entitlements that are forbidden to me; because my skin color and parentage is different.
The sad part is, that even with laws, benefits and entitlements given to this group - they have not prospered. These laws, benefits and entitlements have only enslaved them further, replacing responsibility, accomplishments, education and motivation with dependance and a culture of entitlement.
Critical Race Theory Explained
...We can see the clear footprint of CRT all over the Obama Administration. President Obama obviously believes that the system is unjust, upholding racism and requiring “community organizing” to change it in earth-shaking ways.
He appoints Supreme Court judges on the basis of race and gender; his Attorney General refuses to enforce the law equally, because to do so would be to enhance racism. When President Obama said he wanted fundamental change, he meant it at the deepest level.
The other problem that they battle is that if any leave the reservation they are “sell outs” and generally shunned for it.
Yet the Native American tribe religious beliefs will receive different consideration.
The Iroquois own a lot of the land here surrounding the golf courses- they ain`t stupid.
They also have 2 casinos here and are buying up lotsa land in western NY State.
Well, if one goes deeper into that, it gets more complex - the various tribes recognized by the US government, are actually “nations within a nation”, a result of the rather strange methods by which the tribes were annexed into the US as pseudo-independent protectorates. This is why reservation police are mentioned as separate entities on legal documents regarding laws and jurisdiction. So yes, their family backgrounds do grant them certain rights, as a result of treaties that go back decades. For example, under an 1868 treaty, the Shoshone tribe can hunt on national land without interruption. The Fort Bridger treaty states that “The Indians.... shall have the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States so long as game may be found there on, and so long as peace subsists among the whites and Indians, on the borders of the hunting districts.”
So, where does the fault lay and if you had the power to change it, what would you do. I’m not putting you down here, I just wonder what people think about how it should be. Remember you would be expected to keep the promises you made (as a government) and still improve their lives. What is done is done and has been going on so long, any change seems almost dead on arrival.