These laws were advanced by the state and written into the tribe\u2019s ordinances. The tribe repealed those laws in 2014 and denies that it is racist.<\/p>\n
But according to Anderson, the problem is that the Pamunkey links citizenship to US censuses conducted in 1900 and 1910, by which time many tribal members had already been banished because of the black laws.<\/p>\n
Andersen, who has at least seven generations of Pamunkey blood, says her ancestors were disenrolled for opening a school in the late 1800s that accepted African American children.<\/p>\n
The Black Law was supposedly repealed in 2014, yet it remains in force against me, my family, and others like us,\u201d Anderson told reporters. \u201cPamunkey\u2019s last reform is nothing more than a repackaging of its revisionist, racist history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPamunkey Denial<\/strong><\/h2>\nNot so, says the tribe\u2019s spokesperson Jay Smith, who told Casino.org<\/em> it was \u201ca shame\u201d that the casino\u2019s opponents are \u201cusing misinformation to defeat a project that will do so much for the community.”<\/p>\n“The Pamunkey Tribe’s membership practices are blind to race,\u201d Smith said. \u201cEven opponents of the Tribe admit that there are no longer so-called ‘black laws’ in the Tribe’s ordinances.\u00a0In fact, there are Tribe members in biracial relationships and their children are tribe members.<\/p>\n
The Tribe believes in lifting up all minority communities that have suffered under discriminatory policies and will use the opportunity of the proposed resort and casino as a way to help those often left behind,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSmith notes the tribe\u2019s minority hiring and outreach plan guarantees the workers who build and staff the casino will be entirely reflective of the community, with 50 percent coming from ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n
While the tribe was federally recognized in 2016, the proposed casino would not be located on its sovereign territory. That means the tribe would not be immune from prosecution in any civil case that accused it of discriminatory policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A campaign group opposed to a proposed $500 million casino in Norfolk, Virginia has accused the tribe behind the project, the Pamunkey, of racism., ABC8News reports. On November 3, voters in Norfolk will decide by ballot referendum whether to authorize casino gaming in the city. But a group calling itself Informed Norfolk, largely bankrolled by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":153258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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