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had to research a bill for class and actually found something that is really interesting that i dont know how to feel about yet
basically Muscogee (nation? tribe? idk correct terms) used to own slaves that travelled with them along the trail of tears and when slavery was abolished freedmen were allowed Muscogee citizenship. but then in more recent constitution they have excluded descendents of
Muscogee freedmen and been very hard on heredity and stuff. this federal bill is trying to get Muscogee to allow freedmen descendents citizenship, but with the approach of witholding funds and severing ties. so like i think where im at rn is that freedmen descendents
should be granted citizenship, but idk how i feel about the US federal involvement bc of history and all sorts of other stuff, and like ugh its still annoying bc its still working within in colonially constructed blood quantum shit and gah its very tricky but very interesting
really hard to work out the morality of reforms when its like welllll when it comes down to it i disagree with everything going on here pretty fundamentally but idk, very hard to think about when groups have been oppressed so heavily - really interesting to hear interviews
with Muscogee citizens and interviews with descendents of freedmen - i still dont know if im going to be writing in opposition or in favor of the bill but yeah idk very slippery tricky and interesting
especially bc so many of the treaties and shit were coerced and shitty and there was no real self determination allowed by Muscogee, but yknow that doesnt just give them carte blanche to be racist lmao
also its weird? bc a lot of freedmen descendents dont even want citizenship for like resources? everyone ive seen is like pretty well off so thats an interesting dynamnic too fuck man