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We deserve better than this a nation. They are saying dangerous things with their little sound bites and clips.
Pass this on - and for gods sake news people PLEASE PRESS THEM ON THIS.
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And I want you to remember the consequences of that action two hundred years ago:
Genocide. Rule by white supremacy. Injustice
https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/akh10.socst.ush.exp.trail/trail-of-tears-we-shall-remain/
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PBS LearningMediaTrail of Tears | We Shall Remain | PBS LearningMediaIn this video segment adapted from American Experience: "We Shall Remain," reenactments help tell the story of how the Cherokee people were forced from their lands in the southeast. The U.S. government initially promised the Cherokee and other Native American tribes that if they could assimilate into European Americans lifestyles, they would be considered equals. But a new movement in the late 1820s, supported by President Andrew Jackson, promoted removal of Native Americans from the eastern U.S. The Indian Removal Act, passed in 1830, called for the tribes to leave peacefully. Feeling that removal from their own lands was not an option, the vast majority of people stayed. When the deadline to leave passed, federal troops and state militia forcefully assembled the Cherokee people, letting them take nothing but the clothes on their backs, and made them march an 850-mile trek to new lands. Many died on this march, known as the Trail of Tears, which lasted through one of the hardest winters the region had ever experienced.
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Why am telling y'all a story that happened 200 years ago?
Cuz Trump & his supporters are using Jackson's quote to campaign 200 years later!
Every time you hear someone say that quote: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it", I want y'all to remember WHY he said it.
He meant if the Supreme Court made a ruling and a state or even the President didn't like it or agree with it, they didn't have to abide by it.
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That's where the Andrew Jackson quote comes from, and *why* he said it.
"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it".
Historians are not sure he actually said that, but instead said this to Brigadier General John Coffee:
"The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate."
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/worcester-v-georgia-1832/
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New Georgia EncyclopediaWorcester v. Georgia - New Georgia EncyclopediaIn the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in […]
quick summary:
1827: Cherokee Nation adopted written constitution
1828: Gold found near Dahlonega, Cherokee Nation
1829: Andrew Jackson becomes president
1830: Georgia passes law "abolishing" the Cherokee nation & requiring US citizens to get a license to live on Cherokee land
1831: Supreme Court declines to hear Cherokee Nation v. GA
1832: Supreme Court rules Indian nations are not subject to state law, Worcester v. GA.
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