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Thank You Senator George Allen, I Can’t Thank You Enough!

Oh no! But George Allen change a reord system! He single-handedly undid racism in Virginia! Oh thank you George Allen! Thank you thank you thank you!

I can’t even take this seriously anymore.

What a joke.

Legacy of Walter Plecker, my …. No one even remembers that shmuck anymore. It was a HECKOFALOT more than just one man doing all that, Laree. And Virginia still has a looooooong way to go. If that’s all it takes to satisfy you, than you’re just an easy mark.

George Allen is gone now, his reputation is in ruin, and rightly so. So he did one thing that made YOU happy. The heck with everyone else, right? And who cares if he just did it to get casinos or misappropriate Indian PAC money, right?

Like I said - What a joke.

JMJ

I do understand, and I want to take this opportunity to THANK SENATOR GEORGE F ALLEN Again. THANK YOU.

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Thank You Senator George Allen, I Can’t Thank You Enough!

I actually watched the debates about recognizing more tribes and opening up the recognition process (I’m a C-Span junkie). It was pretty wild. I don;t recall what Allen had to say, though. But he was never one of the more colorful Senators. I do recall Allen getting caught up a little in the Abramoff/Reed scam where they were taking indian tribe lobbying money that was ostensibly for getting casinos and funneling it to rightwing anti-casino groups. How’d that work out?

I don’t know what you’re all whooped up about. Does that excuse everything else the man has ever done? Heck, I can’t think of a single Democrat who wouldn’t have done the same thing. So what? Hooray for Allen, he’s not a complete bigot? Sounds to me like he did it to get casinos. How’d that work out? Who cares? He’s gone now. And I really don’t care one way or the other whether indians have casinos or not.

JMJ

Dont fall for it.
Jersey likes to act as if he cant see the obvious and just goes on as if nothing was made clear so as to make it look like you have no valid arguement.
You could spell it out and make it as clear as day with pictures, documents, even an audio presentation and he would till say “so whats your point , I dont see what you’re getting at”

He wont appreciate whats been done for your people because then he would have to conciede to Allens worthyness.
And you know he doesnt want to do that.

“We were the third race in a two-race state,” said Stephen Adkins, chief of the Chickahominy tribe. “I remember once traveling with my father, and we pulled into a gas station because I had to go to the bathroom and there was one bathroom marked ‘white’ and one bathroom marked ‘colored.’ I said, ‘Dad, what do I do?’ “

After his retirement, Plecker planned to write a book about the decline of the white race. Before he had a chance, he stepped into traffic without looking.

Legend has it that he was hit by a bus. “I know it’s kind of cruel to say this, but I hope the last thing he saw was an Indian driving that bus,” said Sue Elliott, Hearl’s daughter.

The truth is that he was hit by a car driven by Kenneth R. Berrell, whose racial origins have fallen into oblivion. Plecker died in a hospital two hours later. It was 1947.

Plecker’s racial records were largely ignored after 1959, when his handpicked successor retired. Virginia schools were fully integrated in 1963 and, four years later, the state’s ban on interracial marriage was ruled unconstitutional. In 1975, the General Assembly repealed the rest of the Racial Integrity Act.

Virginia has tried to erase Plecker’s legacy. It has established councils on Indian affairs and has conferred official state recognition on eight tribes, a designation that provides no privileges. But Indian leaders say recognition equals respect.

In 1997, then-Gov. George F. Allen simplified procedures for people to correct inaccurate birth records. Hearl had her race changed from black to Indian.

“I know who I am and I’m proud of it,” she said. The going has been tougher in Washington, where Virginia Indians are trying to join 562 tribes around the country that are federally recognized. The Bush administration has been unwilling to ease application rules.

Allen, now a U.S. senator, is again championing the Indians’ cause. The Republican has authored legislation that would bypass bureaucratic requirements and allow Congress to federally recognize the tribes. Allen, during a Senate hearing last year, lamented Virginia’s racist past.

“Virginia Indians were not extended the rights offered to other U.S. citizens, and the years of discrimination and coercive policies took a tremendous toll,” he said.

The bill has been approved by a key Senate committee and may come up for a floor vote later this year.

The legislation faces major opposition in the House of Representatives, however, where Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Fairfax County, has raised concern that federal recognition would open the door to Indian-run casinos in Virginia. The tribes, most of them devout Christians, say they oppose gaming. Allen and Gov. Mark R. Warner say there are many safeguards that would prevent casinos from opening in the Old Dominion.

The Virginia tribes are moving decisively. Six have banded together to ask Congress for help. They have brought Plecker’s story to Capitol Hill, hired a lobbyist and meet regularly to plan strategy, which includes deciding whether to participate in the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement in 2007.

Indian leaders say that’s a big change from the days not long ago when all of the tribes went separate ways.

“We have a bond now,” Adkins, the Chickahominy chief, said. “It’s kind of ironic, but Plecker has made us stronger.”

Information for this story was gathered from interviews, books on the history of eugenics and the collection of Plecker’s writings on file in the John Powell papers, kept in the special collections department of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.

The leader of the state movement was John Powell of Richmond, an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer who would work closely with Plecker for more than a quarter of a century. Powell was rich, well-connected and a compelling speaker.

Plecker stayed behind the scenes, supplying Powell with copies of all the major correspondence of his office and drafting racial separation bills for the legislature’s consideration.

Their work paid off in 1924 when the General Assembly passed the Racial Integrity Act and a mandatory sterilization law that would be invoked 8,300 times over the next 55 years.

Although 31 states would pass eugenics laws, none was tougher than Virginia’s.

You want to know why it is important, and why it makes a difference educate yourself, I am not here to Teach You.