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Anti-tribe bias on display

“Casino opponents take case to state,” the June 17 glaring/blaring news headline across the front page of The Spokesman-Review.

Are all you Spokane pilgrims, all you Spokane immigrants, proud of this farcical newsprint of Spokane’s narcissistic bigotry? Posed against the Spokane Tribe in particular and Native Americans across America in general? Simple racial prejudice by Spokane/Spokane County governance systems at its best. Nothing more, nothing less …

Several times over, U.S. governmental/Fairchild Air Force Base studies have shown no encroachment by the projected Spokane Tribe’s casino. However, the pitiful racial prejudice by local governance recidivism toward Spokane Tribe entrepreneurship persists. Sad.

As a proud Spokane tribal descendant, a tribal elder, I simply lament: It saddens me just how blatantly racial prejudices still exist today in the land of the Sun.

In contrast, I can only laud, applaud the Spokane Tribal Council perseverance toward betterment of their tribe, their reservation and their tribal peoples.

Truman Covington

Spokane

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