Yep. We (black people) have no friends.
“I got Indian in my family.”
Is something I hear often among the black community. Even in my own family, my mom talks of how her dad was 100% Cherokee Indian and how our family were cow slaughters which explains my maiden last name which is Hereford, a kind of cow.
However, while many black families are proud to proclaim their Native Heritage, what is rarely passed around our dinner tables is an important fact in American History. This fact being that even the 5 Civilized Indian Tribes held slaves. A lot of black people jump at the chance to proclaim the above statement because oppressed people typically wants to identify with other oppressed people but the truth is stranger than fiction. Native Americans were oppressed by Europeans but they both had black slaves. In fact, Native Americans knew the layout of the land better than anyone else and it…
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Thank you for sharing 👍
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Welcome!
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I’ve been meaning to get the book with this title. I heard it’s really good!
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I’m going to check it out ASAP
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I’ve heard it’s really good. I need to add it to my library.
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