This is a risky strategy and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Republicans are going to fast-track a Scalia replacement as soon as Trump’s fast little fingers can sign the nomination. That brings us back to the old SCOTUS set-up - a 4 conservative, 4 liberal split with Kennedy in the center. That creates a roll of the…

I don’t think mental capacity enters into it here. During the encounter, the officer had no way of knowing Scott had a TBI (unless he had previous encounters with him). His wife was shouting it - but in reality, do we expect officers to accept without reservations things being yelled at them? And Scott had TBI, but…

Look at Mitt’s face. Dude knows this is a fool’s errand. He knows if he takes this job, he’s gonna have to serve as zookeeper to a poo-flinging orange marmoset.

Sorry for the delay, I missed your initial comment.

It’s telling that there is supposed SO MUCH evidence that shows he didn’t do it, but I haven’t heard squat about any of the serious, reputable exoneration groups taking his case. If there were real procedural or other issues with his case that actually needed review, why not reach out to one of them? Why does he need…

I don’t think non-NA people don’t care. I think it’s that people truly don’t know. First, I think it the geneology issue is a huge one. The best estimates tribes make show that there are many, many more people of NA descent who don’t know it - and a big chunk of them are eligible for tribal memberships. But it’s hard…

Except the whole point was that it was economic. It wasn’t “bodies in the streets.”It was direct financial pressure on the system that broke it.

Um, one of the main tactics of the Civil Rights Movement was economic boycott. Did you not learn that it was called the Montgomery Bus BOYCOTT (you mislabel it). They broke them financially. Did you not learn that whole part?

All due respect, but I don’t think it’s possible to be succinct here. NA people have some common needs and goals, but we are not a monolith. All tribes struggle with poverty, but some are far worse off than others. There are a ton of variations. So in reality, we need many different organizations to address these…

I think your comparison to the Civil Rights movement isn’t totally accurate. The Civil Rights Movement was not greatly about “being angry in public.” It was deeply strategic and pragmatic. If you read a lot of the letters going back and forth, they knew exactly what they were doing. Economic boycotts (you know,…

Why don’t you answer my question first about why you don’t dedicate some more of your time to the NPO over public protests and then I’ll answer yours.

Um, my whole original post was about how to “help.”

Except none of the organizations I cited squander money - they all put it towards tangible, important goals that actually better our lives. So....yeah. Not seeing any real point to your post.

I’m well aware of Audre Lorde. And I know she was basically an academic theorist, and I have little time or regard for the theorists who write books when there is so much tangible work to be done.

A huge reason for this is because even on tribal lands, most police officers are not NA themselves, and the police who respond to incidents are often not culturally competent or have low opinions of the NA people they encounter. There is a lot of research that indicates that when police make concerted efforts to…

Spare me the academic drivel (and yes, it is drivel).

Um, no. It’s because I’m advocating for donating time, money and resources to actual organizations doing the legwork instead of marching with a posterboard in a city (you know, your standard tantrum - or as you call it, “expressing anger”). Unless you didn’t see the link dump at the end there ;)

I think that is part of his plan. He initially floats names that are totally out there and insane (Guiliani for State, Palin for Interior or Energy) and freaks people right the hell out with them, and then, when he picks a more qualified, moderate choice (Romney, for example) people will say “How intelligent of him.”

Okay, let me say before I say anything else that I speak solely for my own half-Native self and nobody else. And this is just how I feel, personally.