Kennedy compares 1070 to Trail of Tears.
Tsalagi brothers and sisters… this is the real name of the Cherokee People “Tsalagi”, Cherokee is the name that was given us by those who could not spell or pronounce our name.
the Trail of Tears was a mass murder perpetrated by President Andrew Jackson, in which he directly flouted the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. thousands upon thousands of men women and children died through several forced marches and a full scale invasion of their land by an un-uniformed band of thieves miscreants and land grabbers, who killed many and burned villages to the ground before any of the marches ever began… these were not huts or teepees as liberal Hollywood would have you think… But towns with leadership and a Constitution which bound them… they lived in buildings and wore clothes as any englishman might. they had already ceded much of their land in hopes of living side by side with the Americans… but they were lied to and then murdered…
the Cherokee Nation of which I am a full Citizen, has it’s own rules and regulations of whom may be and may not be a citizen… as many of my brothers and sisters have mentioned they too are Cherokee, but the may not be citizens… because the Tribe decided that only those who could prove lineage to the Dawe Rolls would be citizens. so these people who may be descended from those who ran from the “Death List” have no claim to their rightful ancestry… because a community decided who would and who would not enter it’s ranks. right or wrong they, that community made that decision. and they have that right… as does Arizona.
the use of a Mass Murder and dark place in American Bureaucracy to make a political dig for the benefit scoring some point with his base… is disgusting. I don’t believe that the Arizona government has killed one person or displaced one natural citizen as the American Government did with the Trail of Tears. on the contrary they have defend those same individuals against invasion. they are in essence the “Cherokee” on the trail of tears… not the American Government.
I have forgiven my government for the wrongs it has burdened my people with, for those criminals are long gone and so is that government. it is people like you Mr. Kennedy that use my ancestors death for political profit… it is you I detest.
Tsalagi…
cross posted at Hotair.com as a comment:
(when I wrote this it just fell out of me, so I felt I should put it here for posterity.)
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