Why Standing Rock Is About Way More Than a Pipeline

December 7, 2016
By Jordan Chariton
Mediaite

Growing up in a land of white privilege on Long Island, I had it fairly good. I wasn’t rich nor poor; I was middle class with two loving, working parents.

Neither my family nor tribe of relatives were slaughtered; my land wasn’t stolen in the name of another race and class colonizing their own country from the burnt ashes of mine.