The Hidden Massacre of Whiteclay, Nebraska Part II

[gateshillbilly]

Maybe if we cut off government money that would solve the problem

[cflo1386]

This is so sad, the median income is between $2600-$3500 per year, these numbers are third world numbers and this is happening in our country. Nobody in our country should have to live like this.

[verabradleygirl21]

Wow... I live in Nebraska and never knew this was happening. It's so sad to see what whiteclay is doing to those poor native Americans. I would burn white clay if I could. I feel so bad for the native Americans and they deserve to have a better life than that

[papillonaquatique]

You can't help those who refuse to help themselves. White Clay wouldn't be able to exist without the demand which exceeds 12.5 MILLION cans of beer alone sold per year. With that much money being wasted on alcohol I have a question. Where are they getting the money to support their addiction since the cost of an alcohol addiction exceeds what these people make? The numbers do not add up.

[MagicalOillusions]

burn white clay down to the ground.

[asahmendoza1]

Money speaks louder then words for white fucks

[austen4everhearts]

Christians stand up for White Clay Nebraska,shut the doors of alcohol for good.Pine Ridge Reservation is Gods people too.

[7thunderstone]

you need 8 guys with a 5gal can of gas,. 2-to each booze store throw gas on it and watch it burn....ITS A GOOD DAY TO WATCH WHITE CLAY DIE

[lumeriam]

Their problems ARE our problems, initiated by our ancestors. We DO OWE THEM OUR COMPASSION and UNDERSTANDING, our help.There are NO SIDES. Just people, precious people of beautiful colors and shapes.

[maybetuesday1790]

shutting down the distributers in whiteclay won't change the problem.it's like trying to treat a broken arm with a band-aid. if people want to drink badly enough, they will find ways to make their own alcoholic beverages.it isn't that difficult. people make wine from dandilions, for godsake. prison inmates are the most creative. they know how to make hooch with what little they have at their disposal. people like to drink to for all sorts of reasons--depression is only one reason.

[mukwah1111]

I dont believe nor see the connection between alcohol consumption & diabetes....its a native plague that affects many of us ...non-drinkers too. Alcohol is not only an addiction amongst our people ---its basis is an "allergy" to alcohol - and is called "Firewater" because of the affect that it has on peoples minds, bodies & behaviour. Those massacred there during the last war did not die to have their descendents end up like this...depressed, dark and desolate. It's such a tragedy for all......

[tennisfan2VB]

@mukwah1111 : Drinking alcohol disturbs your blood sugar levels. It impairs function of insulin and glucogen. See "diabetes Monitor.com/learning-center/ot­her/alcohol-and-hormones.htm"

[lmollot]

the sicilians refine HEROIN to sell to usa fbi to sell to unemployed blacks to sell to young blacks-so they obey work for free- so why is there not drug problem in sicily? because they know that anyone tries to sell it in sicily will end up 6 ft uner right away-sicilians dont mess around-any lessons to learn here for indians? i guess not

[ZZ327]

im pretty sure actually as of 05 the reservation has legal power over whiteclay and reservation police patrol the area. Plus this guy needs to re read his history books. A ghost dance didnt cause the US troops to be called in .

[ZZ327]

in the defense of the liquor stores. They arent shoving the beer down customers throats. They dont HAVE to drink beer. 11000 cans a day equals out to roughly 25-2700 cans a store. call it 230 12 packs a day are sold. 150 some customers per store. With a town in walking distance holding 30 000 or more people.

Its pretty normal.. Run those numbers for any other town in the country and it would probably end up pretty similar

[beone011]

With respect-why don't you leave the rezervation? no-one is forcing anyone to live in these conditions, Its a personal choice to drink alchohol. God gave all humans the POWER to create a positive or negative situation! To sit a take what life gives you and not use your personal power to learn and better your situation is a personal choice. To do nothing is a choice. From a brother native american with much respect

[Jacqueline816]

@beone011

With respect, it takes MONEY to be able to leave and get a place to live and start all over elsewhere. MONEY is something that marginalized people living in deep poverty don't have, nor the opportunity to get — largely due to discrimination and an economy, which is a social construct, that fails to include and benefit EVERYONE. Please stop making excuses for disaster capitalism.

[beone011]

@Jacqueline816 Disaster capitalism??? Really what is the alternative??. You are admiting yourself that money rules this world, I didnt make up the rules but reality is everyone has to figure out how to sustain themselves and the opportunity to get ahead in the U.S. includes native americans -if one fails to act and only blames and makes excuses then this situation in the video is one result. The Truth in the U.S.A.

[Jacqueline816]

@beone011

Disaster capitalism is profiteering off of others' misery and tragedy. That is how I view the situation in White Clay: disaster capitalism. There are alternatives to capitalism. There are alternatives to social constructs that promote ideologies of discrimination and dehumanization of others. All that's required is the will to elevate human rights of ALL above the "right" of economic cannibals to get rich.

[beone011]

@Jacqueline816 The situation you describe was tried in Russia, North Korea and Cuba and we all know how that turned out. BAD  communist idealogy tried to make everyone "equal"

[Jacqueline816]

@beone011

Cuba has a higher life expectancy because they have health care for their people. We have the highest maternal death rate in the west. Cuba is a small, poor island country where many of Castro's reforms helped the majority of the people. The only ones bitching are the rich. Had it not been for covert CIA black ops undermining Allende, it would have worked in Chile. Russia and N. Korea had a command system — their regimes were little more than authoritarian state capitalism.

[beone011]

@Jacqueline816 I knew where you were coming from Ha Ha!! Then why are all you cubans trying to get into our country???? Your country is poor what does that tell you????? FAIL!!!!!! USA all the way!!!!!! Your just like the Mexicans blaming the USA for all your countrys problems.

[Jacqueline816]

@beone011

Wrong. "All the Cubans" are NOT trying to get into the USA. Most preferred to remain in Cuba. And the Mexicans have a legitimate gripe because Big Ag along with the "seven sisters" oil cartel is largely responsible for their poverty.

[beone011]

@Jacqueline816 Every cuban i've met here in the U.S. HATES Castro!. It must be frustrating to watch American TV and see all your people could have but don't. Your envy of the US is pretty clear. This video represents very few Americans choosing to live in poverty-Your whole country is living in poverty and you can't protest or say a word against Castro- your country is ruined so its easy not to take anything you say seriously

[Jacqueline816]

@beone011

I'm an American. My family has been here since the 1730's and have fought in the Revolutionary War. I also have an IQ above a houseplant so I know better than to look to Faux News or the "Rushbots" and "O'Liellys" for honesty in news reporting or media integrity. But you're right: my country IS ruined — by economic cannibals and disaster capitalism which need racism and sexism to perpetuate exploitation and to maintain unearned privilege at the expense of others.

[beone011]

@Jacqueline816 Damn communists like you should leave our great country. You should be kissing the very ground you walk on. Go complain to Castro and see where that gets you!. Cuba was the place to go before Castro ruined it for everyone there-you know this. Dont' put down the USA for giving you freedom to talk shit.

[Meyers5555]

ridiculous- calling a drinking problem a "massacre" assumes that someone is at fault besides those people who are actually drinking the booze. I'm sorry but simply removing people's freedom to drink doesnt solve the core issues-limiting choice doesn't solve the problem-look at the war on drugs. If you really want to be like the rest of America-give up your sovereign immunity, oh wait that's just ridiculous- I bet the native guy who was speaking enjoys handsome benefits from that status

[MrBuzzoro]

ok now im pissed.

[MrBuzzoro]

too bad i couldnt comment.youtube is cool but needs too get its shit togather!!!!!

[wisdomoftheancient]

This is not a choice to have no choices, no rights, no respect..No future. Unless the one planned by the Government: assimilation to be annihilated and abuse of their lands and natural resources..

All of you will get drunk in these conditions..Mentally confused if you lived in a concentration camp. Reservation IS a concentration camp..

Give them back their Lands, their Freedom, their Resources.. Respect the Treaties and pay for what U.S.A instead always preferred to LEGALLY steal.

[Timmy432]

Not being mean just an honest person watching videos on pine ridge and my best friend is native but, isnt it their choice to drink? They could say no, stop drinking and make things better for themselves... its a personal choice to drink and a personal choice to spend the little money you do make on alcohol rather then your family you further bettering yourself...isnt it???? please give me some feedback on this and again, not talking bad just stating a fact....

[MrBuzzoro]

@Timmy432

[jd2824]

anyone who believes all of this really needs to come and live here and see what really happens and see how you tax dollars are used. It is bull shit to say there is no fire, rescue, or law enforcement take care of Whiteclay.People need to quite believing everything they read and hear and actually come up here and see what is happening. you will find that it is not whiteclays fault. If they are truly a "soverign nation" then lets stop the handouts and let them survive on their own.

[goodwhnbad]

the drinking is a product of abject poverty and depression the answer the the problem is give the People their Pride back give them hope create jobs educate and preserve their heritage

I have always wanted to start a community garden to feed the hungry raise animals for food teach the children to do these things to support the community as a whole I believe that it could help some it is a start

[jd2824]

if you give them jobs 80 percent will not show up after the first paycheck the other 20 percent are dam good help and try to make a living and those people are helped

[MrBuzzoro]

@jd2824 you r so full of shit.what do you mean lets stop the handouts.you probobly never helped an indian in your life.your not helping with anything.pleas keep your 2 cents too your self.your not the one dying hear.

[suegreenbar]

@goodwhnbad

I wholeheartedly agree

[7thunderstone]

@goodwhnbad

we must first BURN WHITE CLAY TO THE GROUND,then pick up all the natives and do some yuwipi, fasting and then bring them to a sundance this is called "survival of a nation healing camp"

our ansisterts are crying out to burn WHITE CLAY TO THE GROUND,IF I COULD GET OVER THE BORDER I WOULD DO IT IN A HEART BEAT,it would be worth going to jail over.

[goldensassenach]

@goodwhnbad They refuse education and employment.What only these people suffer depression? They haven't heard of a garden in 300 yrs or eaten? Or cooked? Or realized alcohol gets you drunk

?

We've been there done that with natives.They created and chose this degradation and destruction.They are their own victims and hate everyone for it.

You going to force them into sobriety,caring and pride?

[UFOarenotreal]

The Reservations war on liquor is similar to the U.S. war on drugs. It does not work and it only makes drug dealers and liquor store owners rich. Wake up Pine Ridge, closing White Clay will do nothing to help the Lakota People. The money from alcohol sales on the Rez could be used to set up treatment centers for alcoholics and youth centers for your people. People on the Rez will always drink alcohol, there is nothing you can do about it.

[UFOarenotreal]

Prohibition does not work, dont the government leaders of The Pine Ridge Reservation know that? How long do you think those four off sale liquor stores would remain open if alcohol sales were allowed on the Rez? The money from 4 million cans of beer could stay on the Rez and help the Lakota People, instead of going to four white liquor store owners in Nebraska.

[GrimJerr]

alcohol sales is not the problem ...the issue is the Crimes perpetrated by the US government against this and all indigenous people of this country. Those crimes leave them in abject poverty unable to compete or even hope to recover

in the ever demanding corporate controlled world !

[meloncollie01]

I am going to have to say I agree with movingsouth29....It was a well done and informative documentary, but shutting down white clay (i.e. making it a dry county, etc...) will only force the people who want the alcohol to go further for it and they WILL go further for it! So where does it end, it is opening up a slippery slope of "Where does the shutting down of alcohol sales stop?" Those alcohol licenses are in a completely different state than the reservation.....Where would it end?????

[movinsouth29]

Shutting down Whiteclay would only result in they're going further south for alcohol. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know this. Shutting down Whiteclay is not the answer. Finding the reason WHY these people choose to ruin their lives would be time spent better than fighting a losing battle of trying to get Whiteclay shut down.

[wrtrspen]

"Damn", my friend is an understatement. I live in Omaha, Nebraska! Dear God, things need to change.

[LordJudgement1818]

Im in the big O as well brother, i took a native american class at uno and it told me about this, i hand no idea. its sad but what can we do, if they cant change then they are doomed. we have to help them.

[JaceInman]

damn.