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I lived with the Seminole Indians outside Immokalee, most of whom lived in palm leaf huts without electricity. However, an alcoholic man invited me into his government-built brick house.
When I returned over the years, the Seminoles had set up the first Native American casino, which laid the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar industry that replaced alligator wrestling and their previous forms of gambling. Their slot machines take money from white players and give each member of the tribe $130,000 a year — more than three times the average US income and eight times as much as the black and Latino tomato pickers earn working around their mansions. By the time Seminole children reach 18, they are already multimillionaires — benefactors of the only government-sanctioned reparations I know of in America.
Seminole Indian Reservation, outside Immokalee, FL – April 1974
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