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Originally Posted by raymor
This has been portrayed in a misleading way. I right know that I age with it, but the amendment did NOT remove all blacks from the tribe.
Their amendment says that in order to be Cherokee, you must have Cherokee ancestors. It's not about blacks, it's about Cherokee or not. If your great-grandparents were Cherokee and African, fine. If none of your great-grandparents were Cherokee, you're not Cherokee.
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That's called a "Grandfather Clause".
Wiki is your friend :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
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The term originated in late-19th-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states, which created new literacy and property restrictions on voting, but exempted those whose ancestors (grandfathers) had the right to vote before the Civil War. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent poor and illiterate African American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote.
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You're cranial bones are fucking thicker than Shane Diesel's cock.
