Saturday, January 18, 2020

For the Record: Two Warren Topics

Cherokee Freedmen, undated, via Mid-Continent Public Library.

Wanted to try giving Roger an answer here:





Which evidently went to the point in 2011 that the tribe seems have demanded claimants take a DNA test, I'm sorry to say
The Cherokee Nation recently decided to limit its membership to people who can prove they have Indian blood. This strips of their citizenship rights about 2,800 African-Americans who are descendants of slaves once owned by wealthy Cherokees. Those rights include access to health care clinics, food distribution for the poor, and assistance for low-income homeowners.
and glad to say that the Obama administration ruled on the black Chereokees' side:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs declined an interview request, but in a letter sent to the Cherokee Nation earlier this month, it said the Freedmen's citizenship rights cannot be revoked. The Cherokee first agreed to grant the Freedmen equal rights in a treaty signed with the U.S. in 1866, following the end of the Civil War.


Also a shorter bit on health care, where the Warren contribution is less clear (it's going to take time to recover some of the courage I used to have on the subject):



Where by "fair"I meant universal, and the same for everybody, though I'm under no illusion that the rich won't find ways to extend their privilege, as they have done in UK, where an entirely separate, private system exists to care for the upper ten percent. The main Warren point is that her proposal includes not only a transition, as I've mentioned before, but a transition in which people's lives are envisaged as getting better from day 1. The Krugman point is important too: this is not a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good, but of perfect (p) being the enemy of perfect (q) because it comes earlier in the alphabet.


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