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You cannot believe that #BlackLivesMatter if you support the disenfranchisement and targeted discrimination of Black Natives who descend from enslaved people owned by citizens of the Five Slaveholding Tribes. #NoAntiBlackRacism #NoJimCrowInIndianTerritory
This can either be active support of disenfranchisement and discrimination policies or silence on the issue after being informed about it. I have seen far too many Choctaws and Chickasaws post Black Lives matter memes while also supporting their racist tribal policies.
You cannot believe that Black Lives Matter and then support your own Indigenous nation disenrolling, discriminating against, and disenfranchising the descendants of the slaves they owned and built their wealth off of. Why do you think the Five Slaveholding Tribes still rank
This official Choctaw Nation supplemental guide for teaching about the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision is full of misinterpretations of the history, omits histories of Black people and Freedmen, and erases the Choctaw Nation’s clear history of anti-Blackness. (Thread)
First of all, in the official guide, the authors state that “If people who were not Choctaw tribal members respected Choctaw laws, they could visit the Choctaw Nation, work there, or even become Choctaw citizens,” in post-Removal Indian Territory. 
This statement holds true if the individual in question was white or non-Black from another Indigenous tribe. However, Black people (both of Choctaw heritage and devoid of Choctaw heritage) were specifically barred from living in the Choctaw Nation boundaries if they were free.
