How many more incidents of hate until people stop denying the harm of using native americans as mascots?
smh
absolutely disgusting
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All of America is an Indian burial ground
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All of North America is an Indian burial ground
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Horribly disturbing photo.
A vulture waiting for a starving child in Africa to die so that it can eat it up.This was shot by a photojournalist named Kevin Carter in 1993-94 when he had gone to Sudan to report about the famine. The photo received lot of accolades and he was even awarded the Pulitzer prize for photography.
Carter himself said later that he spent 20 mins adjusting the camera to take the best shot. And immediately after taking the pic, he fled from the scene without helping the child. It seems the child was actually crawling towards a food camp which was just 200 meters away. All he needed to do after taking the photo was to pick the child and spend a min to walk till the camp and leave it there, which he unfortunately did not do. He also said that he felt guilty for not having helped the child and returned to the same place after a week and was told that the child was no more.
This created lot of roars across the world and every newspaper/magazine criticized him for not being human enough to help the child.
The St. Petersburg Times in Florida said : “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene”3 months after winning the Pulitzer prize, Carter committed suicide.
Tw suicide
Ouch
the child was following the photographer before losing energy and sitting down.
plz go die now
Asked by Anonymous
i would if i could.
Mohammad Al Durrah
(September 30th, 2000)
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
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There are people who say that pictures like this lead to Native American women getting raped and that’s really ridiculous.
But what it does represent is a shit load of people who think headdresses are great costumes that make you look cute or something when these things belong to a culture of people who don’t appreciate it being turned into some indie accessory.
My only thing with cultural appropriation is this: know where the fuck the item you’re using comes from and don’t just pick it out of the mall or some photoshoot like this one and decide that it’s something cute to wear.
If you think that media’s portrayal of Native women has no correlation with the rapes of Native women then you are speaking in ignorance and are wrong*. Native women are being fetishized. The only representation we have in mainstream media is as primitive, sex objects. Images like these dehumanize us by turning us into a costume and by stereotyping us. These images are harmful and do contribute to us being fetishized and victims of rapes. 1 in 3 Native women are raped at least once in their life time. 85% of those rapes are committed by non-Native men.
do all native americans cry this much or is this just your thing?
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Dismissing the feelings and complaints that some Native Americans are making is an act of racism. Instead of being defensive why not sit back, listen, and learn something.
people don't take racism seriously because people like you spout "racist!" at everything they see
Asked by Anonymous
People deny racism because they do not want to see a fault within themselves or are too lazy to work to change it.
maybe native americans deserved what happened to them. i mean if you just let a bunch of people come into your land and take it, i don't think you ever really owned it in the first place. indians were just keeping it warm for white people obviously
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White Supremacy^ I notice you aren’t brave enough to say this off-anon. You have a very dangerous mindset; I hope you seek help someday.