clairvoyyance

So I’m taking a Native American literature class at school, and I’ve learned so much and it’s been a really amazing, valuable experience. We all have to give 5 minute presentations tomorrow, and I wrote a song to perform. Here are the lyrics:

Come on baby

Be a white man

Look at you

Feeling…

tigerthevampirequeen

uuuuh.. injun and halfbreed are slurs, you really shouldnt use them in your song if you arent native

clairvoyyance

Ok you obviously missed the whole point. I know that those words are slurs, and I used them in the song to make a statement. It’s from the perspective of an ignorant white man of the early 20th century, and I of course don’t believe these things at all. Do you understand irony?

tigerthevampirequeen

i understand “irony”, but what part of a white woman singing about colonialism and genocide and using racial slurs for native and mixed native people is “ironic” rather than “regurgitating the status quo [but in ur heart meaning it sarcastically]”?

im just saying, that as a native person i would personally be appalled if i saw this go down it would make me 100000% uncomfortable.

clairvoyyance

Word of advice: people might hear your “words of positivity” more clearly if you weren’t so passive aggressive and rude.

You’re wasting your time trying to tell me that I’m the bad guy here when I’m agreeing that native people are oppressed, and I actually care about the issue in the first place. Just because I’m white doesn’t mean that I can’t advocate for native communities. I’m not trying to hurt anyone. On the contrary.

I’ll be the more civil person in this situation and tell you that I’m sorry if you were offended. That was not my intent.

tigerthevampirequeen

what the hell is wrong with you that you as a white person think its somehow ~helping indians~ when you sing a song that tells indians we need to become white???

how are you advocating for us when you dismiss what i as a native person say about your methods actually hurting us instead of being helpful???

“I’ll be the more civil person” really, you just said that to me?

clairvoyyance

Can you please stop?

tigerthevampirequeen

that’s what i’ve been asking YOU to do since my first comment.