Racist Indians

Whoever says minorities cannot be racist are the same pople who believe everyone on the face of the earth has some good to them. They believe Hitler, Pol Pot, Jeffery Dahmer, Son of Sam, Charlie Manson and others have some good in them. In the U.S. we call them ACLU lawyers or liberal do gooders.
In Oklahoma, the Cherokee Tribe there has decided to kick blacks from their tribal rolls. The blacks had been decendants of slaves owned by the Cherokee.
From MSNBC: The nation's second-largest Indian tribe said on Tuesday that it would not be dictated to by the U.S. government over its move to banish 2,800 African Americans from its citizenship rolls.
"The Cherokee Nation will not be governed by the BIA," Joe Crittenden, the tribe's acting principal chief, said in a statement responding to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Crittenden, who leads the tribe until a new principal chief is elected, went on to complain about unnamed congressmen meddling in the tribe's self-governance.
The reaction follows a letter the tribe received on Monday from BIA Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, who warned that the results of the September 24 Cherokee election for principal chief will not be recognized by the U.S. government if the ousted members, known to some as "Cherokee Freedmen," are not allowed to vote.
The dispute stems from the fact that some wealthy Cherokee owned black slaves who worked on their plantations in the South. By the 1830s, most of the tribe was forced to relocate to present-day Oklahoma, and many took their slaves with them. The so-called Freedmen are descendants of those slaves.
After the Civil War, in which the Cherokee fought for the South, a treaty was signed in 1866 guaranteeing tribal citizenship for the freed slaves.
The U.S. government said that the 1866 treaty between the Cherokee tribe and the U.S. government guaranteed that the slaves were tribal citizens, whether or not they had a Cherokee blood relation.
The African Americans lost their citizenship last month when the Cherokee Supreme Court voted to support the right of tribal members to change the tribe's constitution on citizenship matters.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44516027/ns/us_news-life/#.TnCthk_VRSc
Ok, Cherokee, two can play at that game. You don't the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) to rule you. Ok, then don't take any money from the Federal government. And while you are at it, don't take any money from State and local governments either. In another report, it said the BIA was withholding $33,000,000 from the Cherokee, so that's a good start.
Withholding money is a nice start, but since the Cherokee don't want to be ruled by the BIA, then withdraw all workers of the tribe which are paid for with Federal money, like teachers, doctors, police officers, firefighters, etc. Then the state and local governments should deny benefits to the tribal members like welfare, food stamps, housing etc. Let the tribe survive by itself and then, if that is not working, a nice little blockade of the reservation may be in order.
I am not a fan of the BIA- they treat Indians like crap and they steal from them as well, but if the Cherokee Tribe wants to be racist and wants to go at it alone, let them.