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It’s about their (partial) sovereignty, which was given back to the nations as recompense. It has nothing to do with race.

• silexia 2y ago
  I am native American (Choctaw) myself and it is all about race. Every tribe only allows those of provably pure blood to join.
  • chimpanzee 2y ago
    That’s determined by the tribe, not the US government. Not sure how else the tribes would manage it without extensive record-keeping or some sort of “re-citizenship” test/process. But again, that’s their/your sovereign right to determine for yourselves. Either way, the US government isn’t making these casino allowances based on race. (There is the CDIB, which I’m sure you’re aware of, which is used to confer federal assistance in other areas but doesn’t confer tribal membership. Sounds like you might disagree with that race-based assistance as well? But I’m not sure how else the government is supposed to repair the race-based harms it already inflicted. Seems like if you knock a family down for being X, then when you go and later lift them up, the reason your lifting them up is not because they’re X; it’s because you knocked them down in the first place.)
    • silexia 2y ago
      Once people open the door to using race based discrimination as a tool, they often find it is used in ways they find reprehensible. No one alive today is responsible for the harms of our ancestors, and all of us have had ancestors who were slaves at one point or another. No one should get special treatment based on race.
      • chimpanzee 2y ago
        Okey-dokey.