Photo by Lance Brown Eyes
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.
(via fuckyeahethnicwomen)
Hmm..
Interesting
hasn’t changed much
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Costume #FAILS (via Chescaleigh)
Relevant since Halloween is coming up soon. She explains this so well.
when White people refer to Native American headdresses as “Indian hats”
these kids wearing fake warbonnets are the same kids who cry “eww” when they see a dead bird on the side of the road.
Southside Remittances: Cultural Participation/Appreciation vs. Appropriation
It seems strange to me that people “appreciating” a cultural practice wouldn’t want to shout out the roots of where it came from, the founders, the current people who are keeping it going. It’s almost as if your appreciation doesn’t actually include gratitude, but rather that everyone should be…
hey, it’s back
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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white people think so highly of themselves that they created fake indian royalty to claim. if theyre gonna be any type of ndn it has to be royal. tuh
I’m 1/100 Native American!
Hipster in a headdress:
"You must go hunting for racist shit, it's not like it's easy to find!"
Natives:
"uh... it's in our tags"
Hipster in a headdress:
"WELL YOU SHOULDN'T GO IN YOUR TAGS THEN!"
Studies have shown that White men commit 70% of rapes involving Native women.