What do you do with this statue?

blackascoal said:
Unbeknownst to most Americans, Native Americans kept slaves. It wasn't the brutal demonic slavery of southerners, but slavery it was.

Many of the slaves inter-married with Native People as they recognized they both had a common enemy. They built lives and settlements together.

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A Comanche family in the early 1900s. The elder man is Ta-Ten-e-quer and his wife is Ta-Tat-ty. Their niece, center, is Wife-per, also known as Frances E. Wright. Her father was a Buffalo Soldier, an African American cavalryman, who married into the Comanches. Henry, center left, and Lorenzano, center right, are her sons. (Photo courtesy of Sam Devenney. Originally published by www.indiancountrytoday.com)

I could go on and on about the fascinating untold history of Native People and African-Americans .. and judging from what I'm reading here .. few here seem to know anything about it.

What do you do with the statue?

Who the fuck cares?

History is not a statue.
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They kept white slaves too lol.
 
Corazón said:
BAC attempting to whitewash, or is it blackwash, the role that Indian tribes played in slavery. I wonder how many people know that the Choctaw sided with the Confederacy or that the Cherokee had over 4600 slaves in 1860? There was even a revolt by black slaves back in 1842 so ask yourselves why that might have been?

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/04/09/5-native-american-communities-who-owned-africans-slaves/2/
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Slavery is one of the oldest institutions there is. Probably predates civilization.

No race of people is free of ancestral guilt when it comes to slavery. Even BAC's ancestors held slaves. They sold them to Europeans. Europeans were captured by Muslims and taken to the Middle East. Etc, etc, etc.

Obsessing over what our respective ancestors are guilty of or what they were subjected to is...pointless.
 
christiefan915 said:
Why in god's name would anybody believe anything J. Edgar Hoover said? He was a bully, a sneak and a fruitcake.
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but he had the dirty on everyone. if you had something you didn't want known ;he knew it and kept file on it

http://www.weeklystandard.com/beware-the-legacy-of-j.-edgar-hoover/article/2006831
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was untouchable because of the threat the Bureau posed to politicos who fell afoul of the director. There were the many filing cabinets—no one quite knows how many (one moving man who had to lug them down stairs later testified they were some three dozen cabinets stuffed with file-foldered documents)—full of material of a compromising nature about politicians and political leaders.

When he was deputy attorney general in the Ford White House, Laurence Silberman (now a federal judge) was sent to go through what was left of Hoover's "Official & Confidential" files.
"It was the single worst experience of my long governmental service," Silberman later wrote. "Hoover had indeed tasked his agents with reporting privately to him any bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King, or their families. Hoover sometimes used that information for subtle blackmail to ensure his and the bureau's power."
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