Tuesday, September 23, 2014
What would you like the Last Act of the Blackfeet to be?
Another thing to just think about is as a people what would we like our last act to be? If we stick with Blood Quantum all Anthropological experts say we will not be around officially by the year 2080. I am against the Blackfeet ever going extinct but I am just one unofficial vote since I can't vote in Tribal Elections. Some others are I know are totally okay with that. Keep the Blood Quantum even if it means the whole Blackfeet Tribe goes extinct. They have a Tribal vote and are voting that way. So one choice I see that some people have made as to what could be the last act of the Blackfeet is we went extinct because I don't want our tribe to look like another race or ethic group. In that scenario we went out as a group of Racists. The very thing we always said we were against. Racism. Some have said I don't want to change the Enrollment Policy because I might lose some Tribal benefits. Okay in that case we went extinct because we were greedy. I don't want to change the Enrollment Policy because I am afraid of the infinite number of possibilities that could happen if we did even though we all know the worst possibility, extinction, is going to happen if we stick with Blood Quantum I am too scared to take a chance. Fine, then we go extinct because we were paralyzed with fear. So if we had to, as a tribe, pick a last act for our people is taking a chance on something other than Blood Quantum not an Honorable choice? If not the most Honorable choice. Because being Racist, Greedy, or paralyzed with fear don't sound like Honorable choices to me. As the line in T.S. Elliot's The Hollow Men goes,"not with a bang but a whimper." Just my opinion.
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