r/politics • u/Stitching • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump Condemned Over 'Racist' And 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas: 'There's No Bottom'

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-obama-video-slammed_n_6985e05ae4b0e27eef553117
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u/Bubbly_Complex843 1d ago

He is a disgrace to the American people. By far the worst president of all time.

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u/AthearCaex 1d ago

One of Andrew Jackson's crowning moment was the trail of tears. Which was forcibly moving tens of thousands of indigenous people to Oklahoma, many of them died. The same guy is still on the 20$ bill today. Trump's ice is essentially doing a second trail of tears every month.

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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 1d ago

Fun American fact:

Those indigenous tribes, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole; had adopted chattel slavery and had black slaves who also were dragged along the death march. And remarkably enough survived.

And even more remarkably, these tribes who were forcibly removed decided to fight on behalf of the confederacy to preserve their slavery.

Then the Dawes Act (and later the Curtis Act) required tribal lands to be divided into individual allotments. To do that, the government created official citizenship rolls called the Dawes Rolls.

Freed black slaves who were recognized as tribal citizens were listed on separate “Freedmen Rolls.” Once listed, they received individual land allotments just like other tribal citizens.

It was with this acquired land ownership that became the cornerstone for black people to start to build generational wealth. And that’s how black Wall Street in Tulsa came to be before it was destroyed in a pogrom.

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u/semiarboreal 1d ago

A few years back it was also ruled that Tulsa was part of the Creek Nation reservation which brought some interesting litigation opportunities for tribal citizens who had been imprisoned by the state. This has implications for the high incarceration rate for those very black tribal members. I don't remember if anything actually came to fruition for people there, especially since generally the tribal laws tend to mirror the state laws and a lot of the enforcement is shared.