Indian law is racist and unconstitutional. All Americans Indians were made American citizens in 1924 and must be equally protected as promised in the 14th Amendment to our federal constitution."
January 04, 2007
Racist letter of the week
Letter: Tribal 'sovereignty' a threat to AmericaCalling tribal entitlements a form of sovereignty is an excuse to ignore the make-up-as-we-go capriciousness of Indian law and the racist principle at root. If tribes were sovereign nations, the State Department would deal with them. Our government doesn't recognize Indian tribes as nations of people, but as some endangered plant, animal or mineral collection protected under the Interior Department.
Indian law is racist and unconstitutional. All Americans Indians were made American citizens in 1924 and must be equally protected as promised in the 14th Amendment to our federal constitution."
Indian law is racist and unconstitutional. All Americans Indians were made American citizens in 1924 and must be equally protected as promised in the 14th Amendment to our federal constitution."
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One nation under which god? Almighty God? There are so many gods that it's difficult to tell which one the billboard is talking about...
Writerfella here --
writerfella posted the following text with the student newspaper, THE DAY:
TO THE EDITORS:
Mr. Greene's letter, "Entitlements For Tribes Make America Weaker," was ill-informed and less than insightful. His words traversed the Internet, out to The Great Plains and beyond, and many of the close to 2 million Native Americans soon will have read them.
Attention best is gotten this way than with, say, the usual two-by-four. Nobody gives tribes 'entitlements' and instead everyone takes from tribes, indeed an old American tradition.
The best example of that was forced upon tribes by The Dawes Act (1887), fracturing many reservations into 40-, 80-, and 160-acre parcels, deeding them to surviving Natives, and opening the vast remainders to American settlement.
The Wheeler-Howard Act (1934) reversed that land privatization, halting continued loss of Native lands while allowing tribal constitutions and self-government, if so chosen.
However, Native sovereignty arises from treaties and regulations made with and by the US Government and the many tribes, legal because tribal Nations are held comparable to the various 50 states. If California and Arizona disagree, the Federal Government arbitrates but NOT through the State Department. If the Navajo Nation and Arizona disagree, the Fed arbitrates but again NOT through Condaleeza Rice. That salient point is overlooked, or ignored, by Mr. Greene's prosaic missive.
It is not a perfect system, but it is our system. That treaties and regulations continue in force is because Natives refused to disappear within the 25 years predicted and predicated in The Dawes Act.
Those of us still remaining prefer to be like the weather, about which everybody talks but about which nobody does anything.
SINCERELY
Russell Bates...
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All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Writerfella here --
This is old now, but writerfella will say it anyway.
Remember Japan's problems with its' Pledge of Allegiance? Especially the part that went, "...one nation, under Godzilla..."
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
The letter writer didn't invoke God, but I've never heard one of these "one nation" types who didn't bemoan the loss of our "Judeo-Christian values." In other words, who didn't bemoan how immigrants, socialists, feminists, multiculturalists, atheists, and other liberal wackos are destroying our country.
Good letter, Russ. But The Day isn't a student newspaper. It's a regular newspaper published in New London, Connecticut.
Writerfella here --
Hmm. Somewhere on the Letters page writerfella accessed, there was a sentence that indicated such a status. Perhaps it was misread but at least the letter read as if written by someone under 25...
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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