Ban my account ffs!
snowguy716
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« on: June 04, 2009, 11:20:16 PM » |
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Where I come from, blacks make up about 0.37% of the population. It would be nearly statistically impossible for me to get a feel for the racial tension between whites and blacks in my town.
On the other hand, there is deep seeded racism between the whites and the native americans. However, it seems, nobody hates an Indian more than the white suburbanites from the Twin Cities. They seem to think that all Indians get a check for $1million when they turn 18 and then huge checks every month after that because of the casinos.
If only that were true here. Most of you haven't seen anything close to resembling the abject poverty that many native americans live in here, and while the casinos have helped greatly, reducing poverty a lot, they still struggle.
But I grew up going to pow wows because we had friends that were natives... and I just thought that everybody went to pow wows and ate fry bread and watched people dance and bought cool jewelry. I never felt like people were giving me a weird look because I was white.
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