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2019-02-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Elizabeth Warren Says Reparations for Native-Americans Should Be ‘Part of the Conversation' Today

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2019-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Tar and feathering is what you should face TODAY.
Dumb bitch

Posted by newc 2019-02-24 02:49|| 2019-02-24 02:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Dot and feathers ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-24 03:11|| 2019-02-24 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Lets go with her true heritage: Blood Eagle.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-24 03:27|| 2019-02-24 03:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Pemmican. Tobacco. Whiskey. Uh, blankets...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-24 04:45|| 2019-02-24 04:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Does she think she's getting a cut of these 'reparations', being a fake Cherokee and all of that?

Posted by Raj 2019-02-24 07:15|| 2019-02-24 07:15|| Front Page Top

#6 That's my guess Raj. This is just another of her get rich scams.

Posted by AlanC 2019-02-24 09:17|| 2019-02-24 09:17|| Front Page Top

#7 If there are reparations, somebody will have to manage their distribution. And who is better then a woman who is both a Native American and one of USA's leading legal scholars?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-24 10:49|| 2019-02-24 10:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Part of the conversation? Go ahead, dumbass. Talk about it all you want. See how far it gets you.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-24 11:22|| 2019-02-24 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually federal courts have been dealing with just this issue for many decades. It seems the more knowledgeable tribes have been bringing up the issue with respect to treaties the USA madewith various tribes over the centuries, treaties the USA then gratuitously failed to honor. These old disputes are slowly & surely being litigated, money is being appropriated, and checks have been & will be sent out to tribal descendants of those who were basically robbed and cheated so long ago. Circa 2007 my sister & brother each got $12500 from court awards with respect to treaties dating back to 1837. Awards were tax free. I got zero due to red tape. Mother was on the list of recipients, but she died before the awards were finally made & so got zero. Tribes don't call these payments "reparations", but their just due for misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance by the feds.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-24 11:30|| 2019-02-24 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Sen. Warren's words quoted above indicate her continuing profound ignorance of the realities in "Indian Country".

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-24 11:31|| 2019-02-24 11:31|| Front Page Top

#11 I am opposed to negotiating with the tribes as if they were actually nations because their people all have American citizenship and pass through the US without going through customs or immigration. If they are independent, act like they are independent. Oh, and we didn't need to honor our treaties. We invaded and annexed their countries, thus making the treaties invalid. There is no honor or legality in national expansion, and there doesn't need to be.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-02-24 11:55|| 2019-02-24 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Untaxed cigarrettes

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-24 13:30|| 2019-02-24 13:30|| Front Page Top

#13

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2)
Oh, and we didn't need to honor our treaties. We invaded and annexed their countries, thus making the treaties invalid. Go tell that to the judges.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-24 14:24|| 2019-02-24 14:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Treat them as separate nations. Revoke their citizenship, then declare war and take the rest from them once and for all. They can either be citizens of the United States or they can be a footnote in history books.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-02-24 16:02|| 2019-02-24 16:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Does she think she's getting a cut of these 'reparations', being a fake Cherokee and all of that?

Senator Warren recently admitted that she is not now, nor has ever been, a legal member of any Indian tribe, so she therefore would not be entitled to reparations. Whether grateful tribe members might choose to donate to her campaign fund, a favourite charity, or hire a close friend or relation in some capacity which they are actually capable of fulfilling is an altogether different question.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-24 16:40|| 2019-02-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

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