Re: Ask me about: living in Indian Country or frontier Montana
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Is Poverty that bad?
I also believe a balck person has not experienced discrimination at its worst. The Native community has
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It is really bad. I didn't have any idea how bad it was until I was out here.
I often compare the reservation with the inner city of any big city. The biggest difference is that the reservation is in the middle of nowhere with no industry, not very many businesses, nothing like a McDonald's or Wendy's or anything for people or kids to even hope for a job. Pretty hard for someone to get ahead and make money when there is no jobs to be found at all.
Native Americans have really really been crapped on badly for many years and are still discriminated against now. I see it all the time and hear the stories my friends and co-workers tell all the time
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