African Americans felt safe when Obama was president, whites felt safe with Trump, when will Native Americans feel safe in their own country?

[Anonymous]

[slatyb]

Which white people? I'm white and I wouldn't feel safe if Trump is elected. There are millions of white women who don't feel safe now.

[Anonymous]

I guess when a native American gets elected in your opinion

[Lliam]

Good video. Thanks for sharing.

Anglocentric and Eurocentric, "Christian" colonists and the U. S. government screwed (and murdered in cold blood) Native Americans from the very beginning.

Even as late as 1958, as Indian boarding schools were starting to wane, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) created the Indian Adoption Project.

In the 1960s, when I was a kid, I knew a family that adopted a Navajo boy under that program. The kid was miserable. He felt like an outsider.

Both the U. S. Indian Boarding School and the Indian Adoption policies were intentionally designed to force assimilation and eradicate Native cultures and family systems.

“When you removed a child and put them in a non-Indian family, they wouldn’t be getting to know other Indian people as they would in a boarding school, they would hopefully be raised in a middle-class family. And so the idea was that they would be fully assimilated, and at no cost to the government,” said MargaretJacobs, non-Native author of “A Generation Removed,” a book on forced Indian adoption.

There was an effort by Native Americans to gain recognition, respect and equality during the Civil Rights struggle, but it was overshadowed by efforts to gain civil rights for African Americans. Why not both African and Native Americans?

Even now, many Native Americans on "reservations" live in squalor and misery. Government agencies still conspire to steal their property and resources.

When I moved to northern California in 2000, a local tribe was just beginning to come out of the shadows. Before then, many of them had passed themselves off as Mexican just to avoid discrimination.
They did not have "tribal recognition" from the government. They did not have casinos.
*On a side note, it's interesting how "one drop of blood" makes a person "black", but people have to provide proof that they are Native American.

In the early 2000s, they organized Native American Days (a weekend - Friday night through Sunday). They held traditional ceremonies and other examples/demonstrations of their culture, and hosted speakers, all in an effort to educate. The local radio station broadcast it and the entire town joined in.

With the help of many others in the community, including myself, those celebrations became very popular. As things progressed and grew, other Native Americans from around the country would come to join in large pow wows.
Soon, members of our local tribes gained full acceptance. They no longer had to be invisible or afraid.
The city financed public sculptures in their honor.

But that all began in the 2000s, over 380 years after the Pilgrims landed and the needless aggression against Native Americans began.

In answer to your question, I doubt if any "President" will ever make Native Americans a priority. There is no money in it. Politicians only care about people who can benefit them.

I'll close by expressing my disgust at Dargil's justification for modern genocide and his fictitious history of "Jews". He obviously has no love in his heart for humanity and doesn't understand the value that other cultures play in a healthy, diverse "ecosystem" of humanity. Instead of trying to "assimilate" them, we could learn much from other cultures. But ignorant people who have been brainwashed into being pragmatic, cold-blooded killers won't understand that.

[Agagagagaga]

Yes. Because the indigenous tribes totally didn’t go to war with each other, wipe each other out, and assimilate other tribes until the White man showed up. 🙄 There were tribes of literal cannibals. Others like the Pawnee practiced human sacrifice. You think that sounds peaceful?

The Americas was a savage land.

What I find odd is how for some odd reason people have a special vitriol for Pilgrims and English Puritans when the Spanish were massacring the natives and feeding them to their war dogs for nearly a century before the English showed up.

And what about the French?

The Dutch?

God look at how the Russian explorers treated the Inuit in Alaska. They made the English and Americans look TAME. I mean they outright butchered those people.

There was no “let’s teach then our language.”

Or boarding schools.

Or relocation. Or reservations.

No attempt to “civilize” the natives and turn them into farmers instead of hunters or tribes who raided.

No, they just massacred them.

After all, there are only so many furs and seals to go around. I mean why share them with the Inuit.

Or I guess you could go work in the silver mines deep in a mountain as a slave for the Spanish Empire. Fun times.

This is no defense per se of how things turned out, but people tend to look at it all like a monolith. Europeans bad/Natives good. Which Europeans, which natives?

[NamerOfStars]

When they have a sufficiently poor grasp of statistics. Do you know how many Amerind people go missing- or get killed- every year? The numbers would make your blood run cold. It turns out tiny micro-nations inside a larger one don't have the resources or personnel to compare with said larger one; who would've guessed? It's unfortunate, in a lot of ways, but most of them do better integrating into mainstream American society.

But of course, that's BEING safe, not feeling safe; black Americans under Obama were no more protected against the government spying on them, nor white Americans against Trump deciding to invade, say, Maryland. Your feelings are not the responsibility of the government.

[RebelinSteel]

I was chatting to a friend about this a few weeks back, or rather she was telling me about it, the sheer number of missing or murdered.

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw#:~:text=A%20red%20hand%20over%20the,the%20midst%20of%20this%20crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/03/murder-in-big-horn-showtime-docuseries-montana-missing-murdered-indigenous-women

there does appear to be an invisible attitude to all this.

[Dargil]

Throughout millennia, ambitious peoples have always conquered and supplanted others. Native Americans supplanted the Clovis Culture and they supplanted emigrant Mongolians before them. Clovis and Mongolians never felt safe under later Native tribes.

Jews claimed and occupied the Levant for 3,000 years; 1,500 years prior to the incursion of Egyptian, Jordanian and Saudi Muslim Arabs under Muhammad and his descendants. Jews have never felt safe under any of them or, for that matter, Caucasian Europeans.

No supplanted people ever feel safe. Black Americans were not safe under Obama, who did nothing for them except appeasement with money and Obama phones. But they REALLY WERE safer and better off under that orange-haired Queens wise-ass in terms of employment, wages, law enforcement and personal wealth.

When that orange-haired Queens wise-ass is inaugurated next year, Black Americans will be much safer, except criminals.

And thanks for asking.

[slatyb]

You know that unemployment is far lower since Biden took office, right?

[Dargil]

@slatyb No, I don't know that or believe it when the details are parsed. Part time and government employment have contributed to those claims.

[slatyb]

You know those stats are prepared by an independent government office, not the White House? But of course anything that doesn't agree with your beliefs is a lie, while Trump is the most truthful man on the planet.

[Dargil]

@slatyb nothing in government is not biased. They all lie all the time Nothing is beyond their reach except independent alternative media. They will also try to muzzle AI, but they will fail and they will not be able to suppress the truth. There are too many in it to muzzle.

[exitseven]

Obama was a racist. The only thing he hated more than white people was American white people. He made no bones about it either. Both he and his wife were blatant racists. President Trump believed in equal opportunity. It was how he ran his business and how he ran his administration. He did not care what color a person was as long as they did a good job. If person of color felt unsafe during the Trump administration it was not due to Trump but instead was because the democrats and their state run media calling Trump a Nazi 24/7/.

Black people were asked how many black people have been killed by police in 2022 and they said over a thousand and it turns out it was 11 and more white people were killed by police. this was all created by the fake news.

[DextroShade]

They never had a "country", they were just a bunch of warring tribes stuck in the stone age who got steamrolled by civilizations thousands of years ahead of them. Fast forward a few hundred years and most of them are now alcoholics and drug addicts who live in poverty, with the notable exception of the East Band Cherokee who are doing really well for themselves because they decided to work within civilization and buy their land back instead of getting drunk on the reservation and bitching about the white man.

[Flatmanlewis]

I think this may be a very blunt oversimplification, which lacks substance. This line of thinking implies that each race can only feel safe with its own race and this is not reflective of the American experience.


Were your example true then there is no need to ever hope for or preach for harmony in the world and we should simply accept tribalism and conflict for the rest of time.


Plus this pretends that white and black are the only two substantial racial groups.

[bobby_bush_eater]

They are safe... What are they not safe from? All land from empires was "stolen". These people had no conceptualization of land rights. They liked the people before them in just as brutal a fashion. They get benefits from the federal and state governments, they have addiction and crime issues on the reserves that they run on their own. What more do they want?

[Anonymous]

Well as an actual Native American from Arizona I feel quite safe. To my knowledge my family, aunts, uncles, etc all feel safe. I think regardless of race there’s always bad things that happen. I don’t necessarily think all white people felt safe when Trump was president or even the same for when Obama was president. A lot of times things happen to people because they’re somewhere they shouldn’t be or involved in things they shouldn’t be involved in.

[handsomelad70]

SOME blacks felt safe with Pres. Obama, SOME whites with Pres. Trump. Since an Indigenous President isn't likely in the near future, First Nations folk should, like other thinking Americans, reject the corrupt duopoly and start a truly progressive third party.

[MassiveDik]

First off what is this idea that Indian were tree hugging hippies hanging out before the whites came. All the Indians did was kill each other over the same thing the whites did. The only difference is the white were better at it than the Indians. Sorry not sorry.

[strateguy632]

false!

blacks feel safer with trump who was inclusive.

the other group have been safe on reservations for a century

[KostasKouvalis]

Maybe when they stop raping and drugging each other. The biggest problems lay on the reservations and Native Americans know this. They're actually safter OFF the reservations then ON them

[Anonymous]

Native Americans were constantly fighting and killing each other well before America was colonized. Nobody is out killing Native Americans today. Why would it be any more dangerous today than when tribes were constantly battling each other?

[BarryLiverstone]

Which native Americans are you asking about?

[MrZameer]

are you native American?