Apparently You Are Not Racist If You Are Not White

[duane1969]

I had not heard of this yet and am surprised that the national media hasn't picked this up. Apparently the Cherokee nation doesn't care for mixed blood.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/09...ntcmp=obinsite

[habsheaven]

I read the article. Not sure where you are getting the thread title from or what you are basing your comments on?

[DaClyde]

While it may be "racial", I don't see how this is racist, and there was nothing in the article about excluding anyone with mixed blood. What they are correcting is for this:

An 1866 treaty between the tribe and the federal government gave the freedmen and their descendants "all the rights of native Cherokees."

The U.S. government was arbitrarily declaring any Cherokee-owned slave and that slave's descendants as being Cherokee.

Smith has supported the results of the 2007 voter-approved amendment.

"I've consistently supported the Cherokee Nation's right to determine their own national identity," he said Friday. "Cherokees say this: We don't care what you look like, as long as you've got Cherokee blood. It's about identity and self-governance."

They're just saying that people who have no Cherokee blood in them will no longer be considered part of the Cherokee tribe just because the federal government arbitrarily put the "Cherokee" label on them in 1866. Those being removed from the tribe were never Cherokee to start with, except on paper. I'm sure any that received the letter that actually have Cherokee ancestry will be accomodated.

It's sad how people can invent a reason to be offended at something because they couldn't be bothered to actually read the article.

[duane1969]

And just like that you guys proved my point.

If this was a white group excluding former slaves and their descendants from health care or benefits because they didn't have any white blood in them people would be losing their freakin' minds.

[Hilfiger1975]

[greg271126817]

another thread about race? i guess it will never stop

[habsheaven]

And just like that you guys proved my point.

If this was a white group excluding former slaves and their descendants from health care or benefits because they didn't have any white blood in them people would be losing their freakin' minds.

For us to prove your point, you have to MAKE ONE! You are making absolutely no sense.

[greg271126817]

so what the article is saying is they had slaves and when they were freed they were given all the benefits of members of their tribe? It has nothing to do with whats in their blood. They were former slaves, not actual members of an Indian tribe. I don't get where this is wrong? Why should someone who is not a member of a tribe get the same benefits as actual members? they have their own government and do a lot of things for their people. they shouldn't have to do it for other people who are not enrolled members.

[greg271126817]

And just like that you guys proved my point.

If this was a white group excluding former slaves and their descendants from health care or benefits because they didn't have any white blood in them people would be losing their freakin' minds.

as far as i know native americans are the only group of people who actually do this for their people who live in areas set aside for them by people who took over the rest of their land. So why should they give anything to other people not enrolled in their tribe?

[tutall]

I think the point was more of the fact this is a non story but if it was a white group trying to do this it would be plastered all over the walls at every establishment you may attend.... Which I agree with but there are many other stories we could find that prove it also.