By A Texas Reader
Fri, Jul 17, 2020 8:53 a.m.
Mother Killed, 4-Year-Old Daughter Injured in West Houston Shooting
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/07/17/woman-killed-in-west-houston-shooting/
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jerry pdx
The latest in "Trump is a racist" propaganda is his niece Mary Trump claiming she heard him use the n word and anti semitic slurs: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mary-trump-book-claim-president-used-n-word-anti-semetic-slurs/
Did he do it? Who knows what he may have said but with the haze of memory and the virulence of Trump derangement I believe people will remember what they want to remember, ignoring context which often needs to be understood. Or even remember things that never happened. That being said, actions speak louder than words and there is nothing in Trumps actions that have ever suggested he is a "racist" and recently he signed something that contradicts the anti Trump narratives we are being fed.
First a little background for myself. My father is 1/4 Native American from North Dakota and owned reservation land, however he sold his when he moved from the reservation and moved to the West Coast. However, his sister kept hers and is elderly now and has no children, she wants to leave me the land so it stays in the family and goes to my sons. However, the tribe had signed agreements with the government basing land ownership on blood quantum. I can own land but can't pass it on to my heirs because their blood quantum has fallen blow the threshold of 1/8th (my quantum), you can own land at 1/8 but that's where it ends, after that point it reverts back to the federal government. Other tribes signed similar agreements with 1/8th being the standard level at which land ownership ends, some tribes signed agreements with even higher blood quantum requirement, for instance the 5 tribes of Oklahoma which made 50% the quantum requirement in the Stigler agreement. Of course with 50% quantum requirement you can see how quickly people began to realize they couldn't pass their Indian land on to their descendants. The 5 tribes have long been trying to change this, their attempts to get bill through failed twice in the Senate and Congress but last year, an amendment eliminating the blood quantum requirement to own land finally went through...and Donald Trump signed it into law. This is an important precedent for people like me with Native American ancestry who want to keep family land in the family, even though I'm not really "Native American" genetically (I don't subscribe to the one drop rule) or culturally.
https://okcfox.com/news/local/stigler-act-amendments-signed-into-law-cherokee-nation-celebrates
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Stigler act, continued
Trump has a history with Native Americans. It was with the Pequot Indians who built a casino on their reservation but needed to build up tribal rolls, they went out and found everybody who had Pequot blood and signed them up, sometimes they didn't look very Indian and Donald was upset at the competition to his casinos and derisively called them "blonde haired blue eyed Indians". He got a lot of bad press on that one, and probably deserved it because they had every right to build their casino and compete with him, that's the American way.
However, Trump is getting no press for signing the Stigler amendment, but he deserves it. It's the most significant act in Native American history (IMHO) other than the establishment of the reservation system in the first place. It's a legislative and legal precedent that eliminates the blood quantum requirement and ensures that land the Indians own will stay with their descendants to infinity. Native Americans are the largest land holding ethnic group in the US by far and the amount of land at stake is enormous, not to mention the minerals, timber & oil under that land. People think Trump is in the pocket of the oil and mineral extraction industry, and he has certainly been on their side for the most part, but this is directly contrary to their interests, they would prefer this land continue to come up for grabs regularly so they can get control of it.
After his experience dealing with the Pequots you'd think Trump might have some resentments and maybe not sign the act just out of pure spite (or to stay in keeping with his usual pro oil/mineral industry stance), but he did sign it. I think he did it because he felt it was the right thing to do.
I've asked a few of my relatives, some who used to live on the reservation, if they know what the Stigler act is and they have no idea, so I inform them and even the Trump haters have to admit he did something good for them (albeit grudgingly). I wonder if Nathan Phillips has any idea that Trump, a Republican President, signed that act that has such far reaching implications for native peoples in the US. In my opinion, there is nothing more valuable and important than owning land, if you have that you can supply yourself with everything you need in life. I doubt the faux "elder" Mr. Phillips has any idea about it.
"THIS HAS GOT TO STOP"--TRANSLATION:"WE can't stop it."
GRA: How often have you heard those five words spoken in anger,exasperation or resignation by a higher city official--or even a minority family member--after another negro becomes successful target practice.
Especially,after a flurry of revenge shootings go back and forth,the mayor or police chief holds a press conference--like the one below in GR:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In the midst of a pandemic, violence is on the rise as Grand Rapids is on pace for one of its deadliest years ever.
On Friday, Grand Rapids Police Department Chief(black) Eric Payne, joined by community leaders, made a plea and a promise to put an end to the violence(GRA:LMAO). The stress and distress over the inexplicable plague of gun violence was evident from the chief as he spoke about incidents both deadly and not.
(GRA:not "inexplicable"--IT'S BLACKS taking over the city).
“It’s frustrating, it should be frustrating to everyone,” Payne is talking about the homicide rate in Grand Rapids.
"This violence must stop."
The number of homicides in 2020 has already exceeded the number of homicides in all of 2019.
“I was on my way to a unity basketball event down in Martin Luther King Park, instead I went to my 19th homicide of the year,” Payne said, referencing the Wednesday shooting that killed 23-year-old Martell Phillips.
In 2019, Grand Rapids saw a total of 18 homicides, already a significant increase over the last several years, when the homicide rate was going down.
But if the current rate continues, Grand Rapids is on pace to have the most homicides since 1993, when there were 34 in the midst of war between street gangs over the influx of crack cocaine.
The deaths come from virtually every part of the city(GRA:But they're all black).
Also on the increase are reports of gunfire citywide, including one instance where a 2-year-old was struck by gunfire and wounded Thursday.
“A 2-year-old is our future and for that baby to have to experience gunfire, senseless gunfire, it’s not acceptable,” Payne said.
(GRA:If that 2 year old negro is our future--there IS no future).
Community leaders stood by the chief, calling on people to combat the violence.
“it’s very clear to me that that secondary trauma and that tertiary trauma is very, very significant in our community,” Magdalena Rivera, executive director East Hills Council Neighbors, said.
“Your silence is as wicked of a violence as the violence that’s the end product of a bullet leaving the chamber and leaving a dead body,” said Rev. Jerry Bishop, pastor of LifeQuest Ministries.
Grand Rapids is not alone. According to CNN, homicides are up by 24% in Philadelphia, an alarming 95% in Milwaukee, 23% in New York City and 34% in Chicago.
Payne said he believed a big part of the reason for the increase in gun violence in Grand Rapids is the prevalence of legal guns that are stolen from homes or gun stores and then make their way into the hands of criminals.
“There is a mistrust in the community with law enforcement. I think that we’ve got to do something — we being police — we’ve got to do something to break down those barriers to make people more willing to understand what we’re doing,” Kent County Prosecutor(white)Christopher Becker said.
He said the flat numbers cannot adequately account for the human cost of violence — and not just for the victims.
“If we hold these people accountable, there’s probably 19 people who will go to prison maybe for the rest of their lives or at least for a long time and that, in essence, ends a life there,” Becker said.
GRA:So what?Do we give them a cookie?(As Rickles would say.)
The bottom line is,Grand Rapids will not implement any plan that any other city hasn't already tried--and failed at.So when the "leaders" walk to a microphone and say,"this needs to stop",it means it WON'T stop and can't BE stopped--unless you clear the city of negroes.
--GRA
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