Genocide of Native Americans estimate total 95 - 114 million.
Today there are an estimated total of 250,000 of us left.
I won’t get too much into detail because I just want to hurry up and post this. Let me make this clear wearing a headdress is the utmost disrespectful thing you can do, you are physically promoting the genocide of an race, you are not honoring us, if you want to honor is then you would educate yourself on the true history of our people. Still I don’t think people will understand the severity of disrespect on this. We are not your costumes, we are not your sexual fetish. The horrors we have experienced should not be glamorized while today we are still struggling and looked down upon.
this probably won’t get much attention but still if I can get through to one person then that’s good enoughStop!!!!!
Groups like the KKK are Christian terrorist organizations.
They’re never labeled as terrorists, not even Christian terrorists.
Y’all are silent about Christian terrorism but will discuss Islamic terrorism to the extent of believing all Muslims are terrorists.
winningthebattleloosingthewar:
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.
Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.
People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.
Here she is, age 70, still absolutely elegant and poised.
she deserves to be re-blogged.
she’s so goddamned inspirational
this makes me want to cry
I guess by “unusual name,” they mean “not white sounding.”
#wow a cuban woman gives her child a spanish name SHOCKER WOW SO EXOTIC
“Exotic moniker” ok but who’s the celebrity that named their kid moxy crimefighter? And private inspektor? Nicholas cage named his kid Kal-El. So…
Can’t forget Apple!
Although I have seen disturbing things where they try and insist European victims of genocide like Ashkenazim or Bosnians were “POC” (re: Jewish people, many may not see themselves as “white”- even if some do- so I feel like you can’t really say they’re ALL “POC” either because it’s kind of reductionist still)- it’s more like some of these bloggers completely forget about Japanese war crimes. Or the crimes of Ottoman Turkey during the Armenian genocide. Or Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Or the Taliban’s massacre of the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan. Some of these blogs rail against colonialism but don’t even talk much about much more recent crimes committed by non-white people.
I mean…saying “White people” globally are the sole and most important cause of oppression just doesn’t compute in my mind.
- When it is GERMANY who has apologised most extensively for the WW2 crimes, not Japan. where you have Japanese PMs deliberately going to the Yasukuni Shrine where Class A war criminals are enshrined. I hold no ill will to normal Japanese. I think it is extremely senseless how many civilians died in the atomic bombings. BUT, the Japanese government is awful for refusing to acknowledge all their crimes during WW2. It’s like…imagine if huge amounts of “white people” were insisting slavery in the US didn’t even happen. Horrible right, when your family KNOWS it happened because they were slaves?
One should only laugh at “white people” claiming they face racism if it is a white American complaining about how there are so many immigrants or threatened by the fact that Spanish is being adopted as an official language in some parts of the US. Or a European Neo-Nazi calling multiculturalism “white genocide”.
- BUT, when it is “white people” (i.e people racialised as “white” by the American gaze) talking about actual hate crimes and genocide, none of us should be laughing and saying “white tears”. I get angry when people try to insist that “white people” cannot face racism in the world because they are so stuck in their UScentric “White vs POC” view of the world. I have SEEN racism against Polish people in Western Europe. Like…yes, I very obviously have non-European ancestry but I can see in the UK, I tend to get “Othered” less because my English is good, because I am not a migrant worker- compared to the Lithuanian woman who cleaned the hotel room when I stayed with my mother in London.
- Saying “well but these white people were oppressed by other white people” doesn’t make a lick of sense either. Did the “whiteness” (by US standards) of many Ashkenazi Jewish people give them any privilege in Hitler’s Germany? The Bosnians? You cannot treat “white people” as a homogenous label when they didn’t exist as one in the place where they were murdered. I could otherwise say “Oh a lot of oppression in Asia is just Asians oppressing each other” regarding the Indian caste system, crimes against Afghan ethnic minorities, the Burmans oppressing the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar…or the Japanese war crimes against the Chinese in WW2. I could then say the Rwandan genocide was just “Africans killing each other”.
Wrong right? Because it underplays the virulent racism that existed, that evolved into the mentality that these people were not human anymore even though they shared your skin colour. Racism based on skin-tone is just one reason people will use to oppress or murder others and privileging skin tone as the most important factor, that “but it was other white people”- trivialises other serious forms of racism and discrimination that were based on culture, history, geopolitics or religion.
Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show.
SPEAK. THIS. TRUTH
This campaign is great, really makes you look closer instead of just and quick stereotypical glance
GSR Entrance Hall System
Advertising Agency: SPR Agency, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil Via
these are REALLY great, I especially like the dating one.
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im still thinking abt this pic
“traditional” and “contemporary” are not mutually exclusive
I have so many feels about this! Especially as an anthro major, I hate it when ppl think that indigenous folks can’t use tech because it doesn’t make them genuine. Like fuck that noise!
Also this photo is precious.
This speaks to me, on really deep emotional level. Not just because I can identify with it, but because I can see the same struggle with my mother, my father, my sisters, my friends. It’s so hard and frustrating when you want to express yourself and the words just don’t come out, and you just stand there angry and loathing yourself, because you can’t place the right word. But I think what people forget most of the times is that the mere fact that we try to understand and that we aim to use another language is amazing and honestly it takes a lot of strength. To get up and look yourself in the eye and say ¨I can do this, I will do this, and no one can stop me.¨ So if you ever come across someone who is struggling with a language, whether they don’t get the proverb right, or the verb tense, or have an accent, remember that they have worked their ass off in order to communicate with another group of people, they tried to do something for themselves, so respect that and never make them feel inferior.