How is it unjust for the Freedmen to follow the same rules that the
other white and Cherokees must follow?

On 3/3/07, Clara Callahan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What the Cherokee trying to enforce a requirement for membership might define as justice appears to be quite the opposite of what possibly soon-to-be-denied-members might define as justice.
>
>  I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "mere" tribalism.  We are, after all, talking about a tribe here.  Are you saying that Indian tribes are free to act tribally until they offend someone's sensibilities, at which point "tribalism" becomes a yucky thing they shouldn't be allowed to continue?
>
> Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  Dear Clara:
>
> I would hope you gonna root for whomever is being treated unjustly.
> The alternative is mere tribalism, the source and justification for
> much of the world's injustice in the first place.
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
> On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
> >
>
> > We just finished a couple of weeks of conversation about what those
> > whites did to those poor Indians and what those whites did to those
> > poor blacks. Now the conversation has turned to what those Indians
> > are doing to those poor whites and blacks. So far on this board no
> > one is championing either "minority" which, considering the past two
> > weeks' conversation, I find quite interesting. What does one do when
> > one "minority" goes up against another "minority"? Who you gonna root
> > for, the descendents of slaves, the descendents of whites who married
> > Indians, or the descendents of Indians?
> > This oughtta be good.
> >
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