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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.