Shouldn't we give reparations to Native Americans?

[SlayerRondo]

burninmylight said:

Ssliasil said:

burninmylight said:

Ssliasil said:
Dude, American Natives have the best living situations in the fucking country!

They get so many benefits, No taxes, Discounts on everything, huge food stamp benefits without questions, utilities are mostly paid for by the government, and they have Casinos.

What the hell more do you want?

It's been 300 fucking years, get over it for christs sake.

You've never met a Native American, have you?

I live in Maine, they are all over the place, I have some native blood in me as well. 

 

Doesnt stop my point from being correct. 

You haven't said a single thing proving yourself correct. I live in Oklahoma with my girlfriend, a Navajo from New Mexico. She'll be the first one to tell you that you're mostly full of it. For one, you can't lump every single American Indian together under the same umbrella. Every tribe has its own government that gives out most of those benefits that you speak of, not the federal government. In other words, the benefits that they receive are dependent on the tribe's budget and resources. That's why they're allowed to have casinos: to raise money. But as with all groups of people, some tribes are bigger than others, and that effects the kind of benefits give to the masses. The Navajo and Cherokee (my tribe) are two largest tribes, and they struggle to accommodate every single pure member; I'm not even going to get into the battle over freedmen and those with partial ancestry, because that would take all night.

No taxes, discounts on everything: Thanks for the wonderful laugh. NAs pay any state, federal, income or whatever taxes just like any other American citizen. The tax exemptions and discounts I assume you speak of come from purchases and services through their respective tribal governments. My girlfriend can't just stroll into Wal Mart and buy a bunch of groceries discounted and tax free just because she's Navajo. However, if she were to to venture into a store on a reservation sponsored/supported by a tribal government, she may be eligible.

Huge food stamp benefits without question: Again, bullshit, but I can't speak for every state and county's DHS laws, only Oklahoma's. And again using my girlfriend as a reference, she recently began receiving food benefits in Tulsa County. She had to fill out the same paperwork, go through the same procedures and be subjected to the same scrutiny as anyone else. She has to provide the same ID, proof of address and proof of employment as anyone else. The color of her skin and her race doesn't affect her food benefits one bit, just like it didn't affect mine when I received them.

Utilities paid for by the government: If there's some awesome state or county out there paying for the utlities of NAs as a way of saying sorry for the genocide, we'll start looking for employment and apartments there immediately. Otherwise, it again is a tribal thing. And trust me, you'd take paying utilities over living on a reservation any day. Spend a week in one and you'd feel like you were staying in a third-world country.

If there's one benefit that the federal government does issue NAs liberally, it's scholarships. Even still, you have to meet a certain academic standard for many of them. Oh wait, you know who else gets scholarships for being a minority? Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and almost any other minority in this country. Wanna know something funny? I missed out on a Cherokee scholarship as a freshman because my high school grades weren't up to par, but I was able to get a couple African American scholarships to pay most of my tuition my freshman year. The Cherokee scholarship was state-sponsored, but the others came from priveate organizations.

TL;DR: You haven't proved a damn thing. Most of the benefits you mentioned come from the tribe, not from the state or fed, so please stop speaking on a subject you know nothing about. Having "some native blood" in you doesn't change that. That's like saying you fixed Africa because you retweeted "Kony 2012."

Then you're reperation's should come from the tribe not the government, since that was the intention to begin with.

And maybe if you did not get the scholorship, then you should have either studied harder or got student loans, you know those things the rest of us had to get to go to college?

Nah, handout's are all the better right, i mean i did'nt recieve any special help getting into university but I can't tell who fucked my family over when so no reperation's for me.