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Evolve Dammit

(21,818 posts) Fri Jan 3, 2025, 06:12 PM Jan 2025

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Stacey Plaskett has a damn good question; same for native American tribes (Choctaw and Cherokee)

https://www.rawstory.com/stacey-plaskett-2670736563/?utm_source=superhead

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Stacey Plaskett has a damn good question; same for native American tribes (Choctaw and Cherokee) (Original Post) Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 OP

I think it's probably the U.S. Constitution Frasier Balzov Jan 2025 #1

And it's a damn good one Jilly_in_VA Jan 2025 #2

I mean "why serve" if you don't have same voting rights. Is it window dressing on our colonialism? Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #3

I just don't get it. Is it institutional racism essentially? Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #4

Help me out here DU. I really want to know why this exists. Today... Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #5

Frasier Balzov

(5,108 posts)

1. I think it's probably the U.S. Constitution

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Original post)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 07:09 PM

Jan 2025

and the way it reads or has been interpreted.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,624 posts)

2. And it's a damn good one

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Original post)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 07:19 PM

Jan 2025

But RepubliKKKans will do nothing about it. NOTHING. Racist bastards.

Evolve Dammit

(21,818 posts)

3. I mean "why serve" if you don't have same voting rights. Is it window dressing on our colonialism?

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 07:30 PM

Jan 2025

Evolve Dammit

(21,818 posts)

4. I just don't get it. Is it institutional racism essentially?

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 08:23 PM

Jan 2025

Evolve Dammit

(21,818 posts)

5. Help me out here DU. I really want to know why this exists. Today...

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 08:24 PM

Jan 2025

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