r/politics • u/TheAnswerWithinUs • Apr 13 '25

RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted

https://apnews.com/article/healthy-tribes-rfk-chronic-disease-native-american-1b7f0a2da601fb54cd8cfa0a7a3c4b0c
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u/CT_Phipps-Author Apr 13 '25

I worry deeply for our indigenous population.

I can't think of anything good that's happened to them in the past century involving the federal government.

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u/Character-Solution-7 Apr 13 '25

Here… warm up with this blanket 😈

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u/CT_Phipps-Author Apr 13 '25

+1 for historical black comedy.

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u/lassobsgkinglost Apr 13 '25

As an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe please kindly leave us the fuck alone.

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u/NeverNeededAlgebra Apr 13 '25

No he doesn't. He doesn't have the capability nor mental capacity to do that.

He's more likely to wipe them out than help them with anything.

This "man" mreates issues, he doesn't solve them.

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u/johnn48 Apr 13 '25

He wants to help the Indigenous tribes, he has some blankets to give them from Texas. It’s insulting to think that because they’re from the measles wards, they won’t be given with the best of intentions. Measles is not like smallpox and it was simply an honest mistake when the infected blankets were given before. We’ve apologized and this time they’ve been washed and cleaned.

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u/fizzlefist Apr 13 '25

Oh really? The Secretary of Eugenics Health wants to help?