minority question...blacks & native american indians...?

Question

my husband is a Cherokee indian...his great grandfather is still alive and is a medicine man in california.that's just a little background...this is his question: why are black people still so hostile about slavery? it sucks for them true enough...but at least they were allowed to LIVE! Native american indians were exterminated!!!warriors,elders, women, and babies...even their ponies were slaughtered!!! American indians are truely the minority!!!!! black people aren't a minority any more, there's as many blacks now days as whites!and besides...black people were selling their own into slavery! so think about that next time you want to whine about being a minority...try being a native american indian

ok, ok, already!!! i know there were a lot of blacks lynched...etc...but they d*mn sure weren't exterminated like the many tribes of natives...

i truely understand the passion some of you have over this...you should be hearing my husband!LOL!...but please don't cuss me out or i'll have to report you...express yourselves but don't d*amn me or call me names... my kids are trying this out for a project at school...specifically the emotional rage caused by touchy subjects... we won't do this again...sorry i've made so many mad...

Answer 1

I admire you for having the courage to question black people and their selfish motives. I'm sick of all the whining about slavery. It's time to get over it, and join the 21st century. I'm tired of walking on eggshells, afraid to say the wrong thing, for fear minorities will be offended. They're forcing me into indifference!=0(

Answer 2

1) People ask us, can you speak Indian? 2) Are you an Indian Princess? 3) Wow! You don't use electronics or use cars! 4) They do the Shuffle, even though the Shuffle was part of the Smoke Dance and only men can do that. 5) They think we all have pets because "We are one with nature and always appreciated it without hurting it to this day" 6) When we say we are Native American, they look at us and gasp. 7) They want to be your friend even though we are just like them. 8) Some think we had the hardest times in history, even though we had tough times like in their people's history. 9) They think we are all alcoholics.(some) 10) We still hunt for food (at least they think) 11) They think we are all related. 12) They ask what our god is. 13) At least some people who I met think that every Native American is royalty. 14) They say that we talk like Hulk. Example: We see big Turkey in woods. I'm sure there is more that they say about us, but these are a few.

Answer 3

The Trail of Tears and other things done to Indians was horrible. I do know that all Amer. Indians/Native Americans are not so embracing and loving of white people. Also, the Cherokees were givien land in OK, which had oil and have casinos. It may not be much compared to what was stolen, but at least it is something.

Don't you dare tell black people we have no right to be angry about the conditions of the past or present.

My ancestors were stolen from their land, bound in a ship on which they had to lay in feces. I am sure many of my distant relatives didn't even survive the trip. Then they were made to work for no pay, barely enough food, raped, children taken from them and sold to others or died young from improper nutrition.

And black people did not sell their own. The tribes in Africia have more genetic differences between them than any other group of people. That is how they know the first man came from Africia. An Asante selling a Ebo into enslavement is not the same as a Frenchman selling a German since there is hardly any genetic difference between the French and Germans.
The different tribes in Africa have different and complex languages, cultures and history.

And Indians wouldn't be a minority if they stopped marrying white people and diluting their race.

Oh yeah, the Cherokees even were enslaving blacks before the white people kicked their butts out of Virginia and the Carolinas.

Answer 4

Why would you even mention anything about blacks? Are you trying to say they complain to much and don't have the right? Coming from someone that is partially Native American I understand the anger and frustration of the many tribes that once roamed this country. Now they have been reduced to such small numbers that they are almost extinct. Although many of them were killed intentionally, many died from the white mans diseases they brought from Europe.

Now, on your statement about blacks not being minorities anymore. I don't know where you get your information from, but you are %100 percent wrong. This country is 12.5% percent black, while the whites take a whooping 60% or so percent. The tribes make up about 3%-6% and hispanics make up about 13% or so. I remeber the blacks exactly, because the number is so low. You have to remember that the blacks were taken from their original country over here to become slaves. They were scared, lost, and had no clue of what or where they were. Still, yes I believe the tribes lost more, and have much much less today.

Just watch what you say, every minority in this country has been through many obstacles and much pain, it is not right to forget about either. The white man is the only one that stands on top today and has for centuries. So THEY are the ones that shouldn't ever complain!

Answer 5

You are very ignorant many blacks were killed in the US by the KKK organisations during the racial segregation durring the 1920s and 30s for no reason. Just because many whites hated the color of the blacks and native indians. That also counts.

In the past in many court issues many blacks in the US have been killed for no reasons at all. I recommend you go back to school and learn.

And the idea of blacks selling themselves into slavery is just another white propaganda. I dont believe its true. I am from a native indian origin i understand what whites can do.

Answer 6

I am not sure about in the US but here in Canada...to make up for all the attrocities done to Natives...they now and for a long time have had free university educations, dont pay taxes, have houses built for them...what have blacks gotten besides being left behind the times...btw I am white and am 8th generation born in north american and my ancestors way way back were natives too.

Answer 7

Look b i t c h, blacks only legally gained civil right less than ten years before I was born. My mother was a sharecropper, which was about one step above being a slave. No, we were not allowed to live. I guess you've never heard of Emmett Till? Do you think that it "wasn't that bad" to be kidnapped and packed like sardines in the bottom of a ship for six months or so, lying in your own p i s s and s h i t?

The white man has f u c k e d all of us over and it's ridiculous to debate about who had it the worse. You say that your husband is Cherokee and I am assuming you are white. If you are white, you don't even have a right to speak on the matter because you've never had to suffer discrimination a day in your life.

Black people will stop "whining" when we can be treated as full-fledged American citizens. When we can apply for jobs without having to worry about not getting hired because of our race. When we can walk into a store without being followed because someone thinks we are going to steal something.

Slavery ended over a hundred years ago, but racism didn't. It's people with attitudes like yours that keep us from moving on.

Answer 8

I agree with you. My grandmother was Cherokee also and some of the things she has told me would make your stomach cringe. Also, when learning about black slavery and the indians in History class, nobody had it worse than the indians and you don't hear them complaining about it still years after.

Also, alot of Native Americans still have it bad living in those horrible camps.

Answer 9

We wouldn't know, it's really impossible for us to understand. We've never suffered the effects of slavery like African Americans have, you can't understand something that you've never been through.

Answer 10

agree totally, Sister/Brother. talk about slavery and don't people realize the Native Americans ( or as we refer to ourselves The People ) were placed in slavery before the black population arrived here on Turtle Island.