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I.M. Weasel!
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Joe Morrow had just finished a 12-hour shift as an “order picker” at a grocery distributor in Hopkins last year when he stopped at a U.S. Bank branch in Columbia Heights to cash his paycheck.
Despite having an account with the bank and showing his ID, that simple transaction led to a call to police, threats of arrest, and Morrow being placed in handcuffs.
A bank manager told officers he suspected the check was a fake, but police body camera video shows he only called Morrow’s employer for verification after the 23-year-old Black man was removed from his office.
The check was, in fact, real.
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How we got here: The 1835 Treaty of New Echota — signed by President Andrew Jackson and ratified by the Senate — promised the Cherokee Nation a nonvoting House delegate.
It would be similar to what the District of Columbia or the U.S. territories have today.
- That same treaty forced the Cherokee Nation to move from ancestral homelands in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee to present-day Oklahoma. Around 4,000 died along the way.
- “You can imagine Cherokees having to face down a trauma in which they lost a quarter of their fellow countrymen,” Hoskin said. “Asserting every detail of that treaty was not on their minds. It was surviving. It was rebuilding.”
- It wasn’t until the 1970s that the Cherokee Nation was allowed to form a modern sovereign government. It took years more for scholars to realize they were promised a congressional delegate.
- In 2019, the year he was elected principal chief, Hoskin named Teehee, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as the tribe’s first delegate to the House. Her appointment came as tribal nations are asserting more political demands.
But, but, but: Spokespeople for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have said she supports tribal sovereignty, yet congressional leaders have not announced a decision on if or when to seat Teehee.
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Seems like a no-brainer while Dems are in power, and with Biden’s emphasis on minority identities. I wonder what the hangup is.
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“ The married father of four would help the federal government foil at least two murder plots, according to court records from the criminal trial for two of the klansmen. He was also an active informant when the FBI exposed klan members working as law enforcement officers in Florida at the city, county and state levels.
Today, he and his family live under new names in a Florida subdivision of manicured lawns where his kids play in the street. Geese wander slowly between man-made lakes. Apart from testifying in court, the 50-year-old has never discussed his undercover work in the KKK publicly. But he reached out to a reporter after The Associated Press published a series of stories about white supremacists working in Florida’s prisons that were based, in part, on records and recordings detailing his work with the FBI.
Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
“The FBI wanted me to gather as much information about these individuals and confirm their identities,” Moore said of law enforcement officers who were active members of or working with the klan.
“From where I sat, with the intelligence laid out, I can tell you that none of these agencies have any control over any of it. It is more prevalent and consequential than any of them are willing to admit.”
“ Moore said he noted connections between the hate group and law enforcement in Florida and Georgia. He said he came across dozens of police officers, prison guards, sheriff deputies and other law enforcement officers who were involved with the klan and outlaw motorcycle clubs.”
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Now she can’t even say, “But I have a black friend.”
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Bringing this here as well. A study that tells us something we already know.
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Hate crimes are soaring. White supremacists have a new recruitment tool: Video games.
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renewing the Chinese Exclusion Act are we?
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You can pretty much tune out everything after a positive reference to Enoch Powell, because you know it’s going to be hot racist garbage…
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“There needs to be more focus on people who are already here, and especially the core (and neglected) “legacy” population…”
Oh, so we’re talking about Native Americans, eh?
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I can’t believe that someone who worked for Ken Starr would be an asshole.
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Shocking I know! Unbelievable!
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Amy Wax can go fuck off.
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You mean it’s not part of the job description? /s
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