Republicans are now working to address those ethnicities they haven't pissed off yet...

[nolabear]

39. I know your name calling seems more acceptable than theirs but it IS name calling.

And it doesn't help. It only shows you standing there with your anger, alone, rather than yes, standing in your own power and convictions but trying to talk and listen.

I've spent a lifetime with a roughly 20% Choctaw background, trying to understand how it affected my deeply ashamed grandmother, influenced my father (who could have registered during a time when the tribe was desperately seeking to fill the rolls) who didn't feel it fair to receive benefits, and me, who is proud of a specific ancestor for many reasons but is shy about the whole thing because I run the risk of being labeled a "wannabe" both in the tribe and out. I have Indian friends and there's no consensus on what is "right" and "wrong". Remember, the tribes and families are not homogenous. They're very varied and have many ways of seeing things.

It's complicated.