Black People Politics : The Racial double standard of the new Bundy family standoff: They’d be killed if they were Black

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Oregon native tribe uncomfortable with armed standoff over land rights


... “I just think they’re a bunch of glory hounds,” Charlotte Rodrique, the chairwoman of the federally recognized Burns Paiute Tribe, said in an interview on Tuesday at the tribal reservation’s meeting house. ‘Look at us, look at what we’re doing.’ I don’t give much credence to their cause” ...


http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-native-tribe-uncomfortable-armed-standoff-over-land-131243928.html?nf=1

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Charlotte Rodrique, the chairwoman of the federally recognized Burns Paiute Tribe, talks about the occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart


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No, White Militiamen, You're Not Treated Worse Than Black Lives Matter Activists


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rolandsmartin

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Did I miss the call for the national guard in Oregon? I recall them in Ferguson and Baltimore. #OregonUnderAttack

10:34 PM - 2 Jan 2016


It's been days since a group of armed militiamen stormed onto a federal wildlife refuge in Oregonand refused to leave. Now, the group's got a bone to pick with what they think is the media's negative portrayal of them.

"The Black Lives Matter movement, they can go and protest, close freeways down and all that stuff, and they don't get any backlash, not on the level that we're getting," one man told reporters on Monday, according to the Huffington Post. But even before the man's comment, observers noted that the militiamen were absolutely not being treated the same as black protesters: ...


http://news.yahoo.com/no-white-militiamen-youre-not-200304911.html?nf=1

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Oregon tribe: Armed group 'desecrating' their land



BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an American Indian tribe that regards an Oregon nature preserve as sacred issued a rebuke Wednesday to the armed men who are occupying the property, saying they are not welcome at the snowy bird sanctuary and must leave ...


http://news.yahoo.com/armed-group-oregon-fears-raid-071902283.html


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No National Guards, No Police Removal, No talk of charging them with Illegal Trespass.
Just a community town meeting to ask the squatters to leave.


http://www.policeone.com/police-pro...-sheriff-who-tells-armed-Ore-group-to-go-home

Cheers for sheriff who tells armed Ore. group to 'go home'
Leader Ammon Bundy told reporters they will leave when there's a plan in place to turn over federal lands to locals
Today at 11:33 AM

BURNS, Ore. — Cheers erupted at a packed community meeting in rural Oregon when a sheriff said it was time for a small, armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge to "pick up and go home"

The group objecting to federal land policy seized buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday. Authorities have not yet moved to remove the group of roughly two dozen people, some from as far away as Arizona and Michigan. The group also objects to a lengthy prison sentence for two local ranchers convicted of arson.

"I'm here today to ask those folks to go home and let us get back to our lives," Harney County Sheriff David Ward said Wednesday evening.

Schools were closed following the seizure of the refuge because of safety concerns in this small town in eastern Oregon's high desert country and tensions have risen. Ward told the hundreds gathered at the meeting he hoped the community would put up a "united front" to peacefully resolve the conflict.

Group leader Ammon Bundy has told reporters they will leave when there's a plan in place to turn over federal lands to locals.

Several people spoke in support of Bundy and his followers at Wednesday's meeting.

"They are waking people up," said 80-year-old Merlin Rupp, a long-time local resident. "They are just making a statement for us, to wake us up."

Earlier Wednesday the leader of an American Indian tribe that regards the preserve as sacred issued a rebuke to Ammon's group, saying they are not welcome at the snowy bird sanctuary and must leave.

"The protesters have no right to this land. It belongs to the native people who live here," Burns Paiute Tribal leader Charlotte Rodrique said.

Bundy is demanding that the refuge be handed over to locals.

Rodrique said she "had to laugh" at the demand, because she knew Bundy was not talking about
giving the land to the tribe.


The standoff in rural Oregon is a continuation of a long-running dispute over federal policies covering the use of public lands, including grazing. The federal government controls about half of all land in the West. For example, it owns 53 percent of Oregon, 85 percent of Nevada and 66 percent of Utah, according to the Congressional Research Service.
 

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