Vine Deloria's Argument Of Segregation In America

The argument of Vine Deloria does suggest an explanation for Ari Kelman’s observation that “Segregation—environmental, socioeconomic, racial—resulted in segregated suffering” in Hurricane Katrina. Deloria stated that the framework of Social Contract that America founded on was very limited in a sense of who gets the right to be considered a “citizen,” indicating a sign of segregation. Indeed, this limited framework resulted in the struggle for those who are not included as a “citizen” of the state to gain legal rights. Deloria mentioned a couple groups of people to demonstrate what he meant and African Americans are part of them: “The use of ‘citizen’ is the result of long struggles by woman and Blacks to pin down the judicial use of words”