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182581, it could be 2 out 897,456 tribes who owned slaves and I'd view it all the.. Posted by Big Kuntry, Mon Nov-09-15 08:53 PM
Same.
The narrative is still there they owned slaves either way you wanna slice it, end of story. There is no sugar coating it.
>>Well, since you mentioned Cherokees we can definitely talk >>about them since they've been disowning blacks left & right. >> >>Or we can talk about the 5 tribes, all who have owned >slaves. > >There are 567 federally recognized Tribes. There are many, >many tribes that have disappeared all together since slavery, >and still others in this country that still don't have federal >recognition. > >You're harping on 5 tribes, one of which (the Seminoles) >didn't really "enslave" Africans, and gave them pretty much a >free life. > >> >>We can also focus on the Chickasaw tribe who consciously and >>deliberately chose to embrace racial ideology that degraded >>blackness and associated it exclusively with enslavement. >> >>We can also look into revolts like those of Prince & Richard >>Harkins >> >>Oh, let's not forget about the wealthy members of the >Choctaw >>Tribes who had slaves so that they could hold onto political >>and cultural autonomy just to keep face for the white man >>while pursuing self-interested economic and diplomatic >goals. >> >>And then how tribes kept slaves even after slavery was over >or >>even worse send them out to be arrested on grounds of bein a >>vagrant & auctioned off to the highest bidder...which we all >>know is slavery by another name. >> >>But, you're right, my "history game" isn't as nearly >superior >>as yours & im talking out of my ass. > >Let's see... > >The Choctaw and Chickasaw, which you mentioned above by name >and by proxy (Prince, enslaved by the Choctaw Richard Harkins) >are only two of hundreds, if not thousands of Native Tribes >the majority of which never owned slaves. What you're talking >about amounts to trying to make an issue out of Black slave >owners. > > >--------------------------- > >"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the >peace when we were getting laid out? >Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? >Where is the peace then? >They don't want to call for peace then.
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