snichols1973
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We can all thank/blame Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson for forcibly evicting the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Seminoles and Muscogee Creeks; I have 1/4 Muscogee Creek ancestry from my late grandmother on my father's side) from their ancestral lands and allowing the white Southerners of old to take their lands for their own so they could turn the lands into plantations of cotton and tobacco...This is what I said before: by illogic, I shouldn't comment on the issue either because I'm white and heterosexual and all that crap.
But, at the same time, I'm also part Native American: my great-great grandfather was a full-blooded Cherokee, so by that token, part of me feels like I have a right to tell these white people who claim that this is "their country" and that they're "taking it back," that, in fact, this is not their country, because they stole it from the Natives, and therefore, they don't belong here and they need to get out of my country. But again, that's just as illogical as them saying blacks, Jews, and Muslims don't belong here and need to get out of their country. Besides, despite my blood relation to the Cherokee nation, most of my ancestoral roots trace back to Scotland and Ireland, so I'm also here as the result of immigrants, just like, well, a majority of Americans are.
Another dark chapter of American history...