Mentioning tribal casinos at all is racist now?

Does Obama Golf ring any bells?

In Washington, isn't it the case that only tribes can operate casinos? How is that not racist?

That was obviously far more offensive than anything we've put out there," Shannon said. "I'm certain that our ads didn't have a bunch of Indians wearing feathered headdresses, dancing around with tomahawks ... that would have been racist."

That was obviously far more offensive than anything we've put out there," Shannon said. "I'm certain that our ads didn't have a bunch of Indians wearing feathered headdresses, dancing around with tomahawks ... that would have been racist."

Attacking a candidate's support for (and from) native tribes is as bigoted as attacking a candidate's support for gay rights, or for women's rights, or for affirmative action, etc., would be.

It smacks of the same anti-tribal undertones of Eyman's "electronic pull tabs" belly-shaker of a couple years ago. The underlying justification there being that the tribes should "play by the same rules", i.e. not have their sovereignty acknowledged or receive any sort of concession or special consideration from us good upstanding European folk.

The reason for that is that the reservations have limited sovereignity and are able to have laws that differ from the rest of the state. Not really racist if they're just governing themselves.

That fact aside, I thought there were non-tribal casinos in the state. Am I wrong about that?

Remember, some of us Native Americans don't like this gambling stuff that Gregoire wants as it destroys the fabric of our true heritage.

She had little to say about The Sopranos ad.

She has her own history:

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040825&slug=naacp25m

It's called fighting fire with fire.

If John McSame can pretend he's not a clone of GWB, the Gov can call this racist.

Anyone else see the latest spew of "advice" to Dems from Karl Marx Rove and his Red Bushies in today's WSJ?

Turnabouts fair play. How's that massive loss of Red Bushie seats working for you, Karl? Bet you're sorry your wrecking krewe works for McSame ...

as for the racism in the ad? its not perhaps overtly racist but its subtle pitting of tribes versus us is unsettling. minority groups (tribes represented by a money sucking slot) getting one over the honest majority (as represented by sweet grandma) has echoes in history: protocols of the elders of zion, almost every genocidal action every taken. especially since washinton's native people, as represented by the tribes, are below the majority for every socio economic factor you can think of; it comes across as disengenous. as well it doesn't have to be overtly racist, this ad is a trigger for negative conceptions of tribes (and the natives they represent) that are in common parlance (the free education, free money, free ride). unlike other groups natives are a disadvantaged group in so many different ways with lots of historical trauma. so while attacking a dominant group is distatesful, attacking a subjugated one is heaping ignominy on those already dumped on repeatedly.

Under the standard proposed by @19, no one can ever attacks tribes today for anything, due to historical oppression. But in fact thruout history everyone has atacked and oppressed everyone, pretty much. The English were oppressed, the various tribes in VA and MA when whites came had displaed other tribes previously, cro magnon v. neanderthal, etc. etc. blah blah blah.

As to this ad, in general we Dems make similar arguments all the time: GOP gets money from corporations and special interests; GOP takes action favorable to them; this is corrupt. The GOP ad is just sauce for the gander, no?

and all too often people point out that basically every one has been unfair to everyone else so whats the deal? the point is that promises were made to native people through treaties. i think we should hold our republic to a higher standard than shit happens. justice, fairness, and honesty are what we should aspire to not flinch from.

we should not flinch from the fact that native treaty signers wanted peace and gave up so much for this country so it could prospere. a prosperity that has not reached many native people. if we are honest and honor treaty rights then we preserve the soul of this country. if we don't then freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will forever be hollow.

be real americans and open your eyes to what has happened, don't let it guilt you into trying ignore it out of shame. let it lead you to humilty and the quest to build something better.

For example, my state senator, Tim Sheldon, recently sped through an Indian community so he could get a ticket from the tribal police and fight it. The reason he did that is to prove to the "whites" that he doesn't think the tribal police should be allowed to enforce traffic laws.

The roots of this go back to the thefts of Indian tidelands and timber- the same families still run the county and still use their control of the county (Mason County) to ignore the law when they develop land- and go forward to the changes that need to be made to restore the salmon and shellfish. The Indians have done about 90% of the work to restore the salmon and the whites who have dammed or bulkheaded the streams, or built in wetlands, hate this.

I know, pretty unbelievable that this is still going on. Before you move to a rural area, subscribe by mail to the local paper for a year and read about what constitutes news out here.

This is a case of bringing back money to the State that it really needs.