Thread by @brettachapman

This is such a joke. “Native Americans in the Atlanta region approve the tomahawk chop? Hello—the Whites removed all the Natives from the Atlanta region to Oklahoma on something called the Trail of Tears! Ask Natives in Oklahoma. We all hate it and know it is racist. #WorldSeries

https://twitter.com/OrtizKicks/status/1453128607887466507

Here’s a graphic to prove my point about the Trail of Tears. There are zero Native American nations in Georgia because the Whites forcibly removed the state’s 2 Indigenous nations—the Cherokee Nation and the Creek Nation. Where’d they go? Oklahoma. Where are they today? Oklahoma

“Maybe some Cherokees live in Georgia today” you may ask. They dont. There’s a quarter million in Oklahoma where the Whites put them. There’s 1,220 who live in Georgia today. Do not whitewash history and atrocities like the Trail of Tears just to protect something racist you like

In what world does the opinion of no more than a few hundred or so people matter more than that of a quarter million of the same identity? A couple hundred white supremacists showed up at Charlottesville that year. Do they get to define the other 300,000,000 of us? Of course not.