Indigenous Rising

morgansdead:

indigenous-rising:

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

morgansdead:

If it’s not clear in my previous post, I want to make it so. I am only saying that if you want to end cultural appropriation of your culture and run a blog dedicated to just that, could you please use some tact and not attack everyone who…

Again, you care more about the ignorant appropriators than the people being hurt by appropriation. PoC are not your personal philosophers and teachers waiting for you to call upon them. Google the information; google the cultures you are wanting to appropriate. How hard is that? Why do you need people to explain it to you and be sweet-as-candy while they explain it? People who give their time to discuss cultural appropriation are under no obligation to be nice to the ignorant people who come to them wanting to use them.

I guess just being a nice person is beyond people these days.  The vast majority of google searches will pull up more appropriation and not actual facts.  Sometimes, you have to ask someone, period.  Also, some things have been in white culture so long that their roots are lost to anyone outside of the appropriated culture, making a search near impossible.  I’m not trying to say that appropriation is ok or anything of the sort, but that it can be very difficult to get correct information and the only thing you can do is ask.  

There is a difference between cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation. Also, if there is no information accessible via the internet and you feel you must ask someone about it, that doesn’t mean the person answering needs to be gracious and happy that you asked. You expect people to be happy when people are trying to take from them while giving nothing in return. Luckily, all that happens to you is being offended when someone is “mean” to you, while others are killed, raped, assaulted, etc for merely existing.

(via morgansdead)