also why is it “deep and full of meaning and culture” when you want to use war bonnets in your art and fashion
but the second natives dont like you stealing and misusing our shit suddenly it becomes “just a hat omg!”
posting photos of people wearing costume warbonnets promotes racism and desecrates a sacred item that is still used traditionally by several Native tribes. Cultural appropriation is an act of racism, an action that dehumanizes a group of people and/or a race while stealing parts of their culture.
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty, shiny, sparky bits
take the ugly, dehumanizing and shitty parts too
We don’t tolerate blackface so we think we aren’t racist. This is redface, and it’s racist, and it’s harmful. Speak up.
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Hmm..
Interesting
hasn’t changed much
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If white people wanna be Native so damn bad than I have a thought: white people reservations. We can round them all up and put them on a rez in the middle of no where with no real access to ,resources or employment, start a federal bureaucracy to see to their affairs, then severely underfund it. Then, to top it all off, we’ll break up the white family and send their children to live with red saviors. Ya know, to civilize them. Then keep them under such system for at LEAST 200 years.
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Costume #FAILS (via Chescaleigh)
Relevant since Halloween is coming up soon. She explains this so well.
posting photos of people wearing costume warbonnets promotes racism and desecrates a sacred item that is still used traditionally by several Native tribes. Cultural appropriation is an act of racism, an action that dehumanizes a group of people and/or a race while stealing parts of their culture.
hey, it’s back
When people tag photos of White girls wearing costume warbonnets as:
#beautiful #amazing #cute #racist #cultural appropriation #fetishization
yeah, I fucking see you.
Cultural Appropriation: A Photographic Journey to Explain Why You Should Wash Off the Warpaint and Put Down the Headdress.
AND IT’S NOT JUST NATIVES THAT THINK YOU ARE BEING OFFENSIVE:
“Centuries of Native Americans—as well as indigenous peoples all over the world—have suffered under dominating entities that tried to extinguish them—both physically (i.e., genocide) and culturally (i.e., the banning of traditional practices, such as the criminalization of the Lakota sun dance for most of the 20th century, residential schools in Canada until the 1970s, and so forth).
So while it’s great that you can walk around feeling like hot shit in your feathered headband, there are many Native Americans still too ashamed or afraid to even discuss their ethnicits or cultures with their children. Many whose songs, languages, ceremonies and skills have been lost by force. Many who are so mired in poverty and depression and addiction and other forms of social strife that you might have more access to their traditional cultures than they do.“
~ Mimi Thi Nguyen
SO KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY.
Signed, Ashley FairbanksFollow this link for a video and brief analysis of cultural representation as a practice of domination.
Maury….
yall…lmfao
hey culture appropriation supporter, if you love bindis and war bonnets so much, how come i only see you reblogging them when they’re on a white person??? and never on the person of the ethnicity/background to which the cultural significant thing belongs???
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