To see the latest deliberate extension of racial strife, check out the Chicago Sun-Times story on Stanley Moore of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
Here are the key facts drawn from the article:
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- Moore, who is Black, wants the county to delay a committee vote to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
- Why? Because he thinks Indians (Moore used the word so I will too) haven’t acknowledged their racist history, including their record as slaveholders of Blacks. And Moore says his great-great-grandfather was a Black Choctaw whose family were slaves to the Choctaw tribe.
- Moore said tribes are unfairly denying descendants of Indian slaves, like him, full tribal membership — and so excluding them from such benefits as education and housing assistance and casino profits. Today, only the Cherokees fully recognize the descendants of their Black slaves as tribe members.
- According to Moore, “they are discriminating against us, and if they do not want to recognize the Freedmen [i.e., Black slaves] and their descendants, they should no longer accept nor receive federal taxpayers’ dollars based upon the census population of the Freedman,” Moore said.
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Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore Source: Chicago Sun-Times
- To summarize: Moore is pissed that the Choctaws held Black slaves including an ancestor, so he wants membership in that tribe. Until that and further contrition from the Choctaws and other tribes is made, he wants to stick with Columbus Day.
-Mark Glennon
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
How dare Stanley Moore, calling out someone other than those with white privilege for past transgressions.
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If the Crook County clowns change it from Columbus Day to Indignant People Day or Ignorant Peoples Day so be it, We will still call it and celebrate it as Columbus Day!!!
He should be blaming the Americans for stealing the Native Americans land
So it was ok for “native” Americans to steal each other’s land..and kill them also. Got it!
At some point it is HISTORY and we need to concentrate on going forward.
Exactly. The Choctaw tribe was historically called one of the five “Civilized Tribes,” as the Sun-Times points out, because they assimilated in. Tragically, that included slavery, but assimilation was for other reasons seen as key to making America work. Up until the last few years, that is. Now, it’s all about division — defining people by their skin color and grievances hundreds of years old. It’s madness.
Agree
Looking backwards is more lucrative…
I approve of this social exercise. No tribe has a clean past. Keep in mind Brandon Johnson (who proposed trading away Columbus Day for this) isn’t interested in social justice in as much as getting under the craw of Caucasians and Italian Americans in general and he found a convenient aggrieved ethnicity he could glom on to accomplish that. If BJ were truly serious about Columbus Day, he’d propose eliminating the holiday entirely. THAT would be a bold stance: We find Christopher Columbus so offensive that we’re willing to give up a paid holiday to be done with him. THAT… Read more »
You got that right