Too many people don’t know that if you have VA education benefits but don’t finish a semester of school, the VA makes you pay them back the ENTIRE AMOUNT that they paid the school for the semester. (And yes I’m convinced they keep this crucial piece of information on the D/L on purpose).
Passing this on so nobody else gets f*cked over like I was.
Blood quantum is how much native blood you have in you and it needs to be a certain threshold to qualify you as a tribal member. Blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe.
It means my mom is a tribal member but because my dad is outside of my tribe... I don't have enough tribal blood to enroll. Neither does my daughter. Our "official" indigeneity ended with me.
My dad is still native tho. Just southern native. Others have two parents enrolled in separate tribes and can't enroll in either one despite being Full native because their parents were mixed with other tribes so they don't have enough blood of Any tribe to qualify.
And to what end are they doing this?
Under the treaties the US govt can lay no claim to native land. So how do they fix that? Get rid of the natives, of course.
And since they can't slaughter us in broad daylight anymore they did the next best thing. What the colonial government has ALWAYS done to us and other poc.
Made up a bunch of arbitrary laws to restrain and limit our power and numbers.
And this can't continue. We are the only race who needs to apply to be part of the community we were born into. The only race who needs to prove our blood.
And that's the thing: it's not even based on blood. Racist scientists defined who was a full-blooded native based on things like shoe size, head circumference, and skin pigment.
Not blood. And besides that it wasn't uncommon for outsiders to become part of a tribe!! You didn't need to be native by blood to be native! Blood quantum has made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to qualify and made it impossible for tribes to practice that long time aspect of our culture.
So please share this post. So many people legitimately think natives are extinct and even less are aware that we do more than just sit around drinking all day. Few people have good feelings about us and within that there are a few who actively help. Please be one of those few.
We need support and allies and for our voices to be heard. Please don't let this post just be me screaming into a void. We need people to know what blood quantum is, how archaic and harmful it is, and to help us spread awareness to people who otherwise would ignore us. Use your privilege.
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Honey, why are you chewing on a ball bearing? I was going to be lenient and say it's a glint off of some saliva but nah she's suckin on a damn pie weight. I didn't see her take a bite of any dippin dots, did you? Who let her near my stash of Buckyballs that I was hiding from the Consumer Product Safety Commission? Just because you are bbgurl doesn't mean you get to eat bbpellets.
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And once again I'm on a completely different page because my history-nerd ass heard that line and made the connection that a derringer was the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to kill Abraham Lincoln.
[Derringer gun John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.] Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
I mean, it's still small and cute compared to other types of guns, if you want to make that argument. But still hella lethal.
Moral of the story: don't discount the small, cute, gayass, nonmasc types, or it'll be your funeral.
it's so funny to me that aziraphale has a derringer. not just in the "he owns a gun at all" way (although, yes, it is funny that he owns a gun at all) but that it's also such a cute, little, gayass gun
this angel has never been masc for even a second in his 6000+ years of life
Almost seven months. And there's still "Aziraphale chose Heaven over Crowley".
More like Aziraphale chose life over death. Don't you think?
We all love Crowley, but sometimes it's not just him you're supposed to look at. He's not the only character of this show. Everyone and everything else matter too.
Aziraphale left not only Crowley, but also their bookshop and everything else. The only thing Aziraphale can leave Crowley and their bookshop for is their lives.
Seems like the Metatron isn't going to smite Aziraphale and/or Crowley here and now. But he might change his mind if Aziraphale keeps turning him down.
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