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Originally Posted by scho63
I won't hold the fact you live in Flor-e-duh against you but the facts speak for themselves, no matter how politically correct you and a few other bleeding hearts here want to make it.
The amount of money the US has thrown at the Native American community, including the Casinos and tax free cigarettes has been massive.
The State of Native America: Very Unemployed and Mostly Ignored
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6801
A survey of death certificates over a four-year period showed that deaths among Indians due to alcohol are about four times as common as in the general US population and are often due to traffic collisions and liver disease with homicide, suicide, and falls also contributing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_alcoholism |
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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
This post does a fantastic job of ignoring the environmental racism, educational genocide, eugenics, and sterilization practices that the U.S committed against the Native American people. You know, the practices we were still enforcing until the 1980's.
(The environmental racism is still alive and well, though, as the majority of our nuclear waste ends up dumped on Native American lands.)
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Well, Chiefspants did a good job of explaining what I was thinking.
It's really not a hard situation to grasp. Native Americans are doing fine- we arrive and **** shit up- the Native Americans are not doing fine.
Just consider the history and the circumstances is all I'm saying. I'm not even playing the white guilt card. The Native American community is facing the issues that they face today due in LARGE part to us. Its not a coincidence that very similar situations are affecting blacks in this country as well.