#racism #feminism #native american #ndn #red indian #headdress #indian hat
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The racism doesn’t have to end at Halloween. These people intend to make racism a staple of every holiday, not that Thanksgiving needed any help with that.
Because genocide is always funny.
And so is the sexualization of Native American women. And because I can never say this enough: Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other US women. 1 out of 3 Native American women will be raped in her life. 86% of the rapes will be committed by non-Native American men. These statistics are from an Amnesty International report on violence against Native women.
Please report this as offensive to facebook. The event is an open one, so we can all comment and say we’re not attending.
(Source: amnestyusa.org)
And do we even HAVE comprehensive data on American Indian poverty? Cuz unemployment on reservations is basically the rule, not the exception. I mean, it’s why they were even created in the first place…
(Bolding mine)
If you look it up you can find it, but you won’t find it on easy-to-find statistics pages like you will for the four races listed above. So no, it’s not comprehensive. Be prepared to search and search and search. Here’s a small sampling of what I was able to find after much searching.
I’m willing to bet that with the current economy the unemployment rate has gone up. I’d actually be incredibly surprised if it hasn’t. (And please don’t try the whole ” but casinos!” argument. There are very few tribes that have an extremely successful casino.)
Thanks for finding all this! I was just copying from the data I was able to find, so there were definitely holes. Such as, yeah, none of the data included indigenous people.
Thanks so much for finding this!!!
(via blackraincloud)
FOLEY, Alabama — Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence.
Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens and requires schools to ask new enrollees for a copy of their birth certificate.
Even more of the students — who are U.S. citizens by birth, but their parents may not be — were expected to leave the state over the weekend, Lawrence said.
“It’s been a challenging day, an emotional day. My children have been in tears today. They’re afraid,” he said. “We have been in crisis-management mode, trying to help our children get over this.”
Foley Elementary has the area’s largest percentage of Hispanic students, about 20 percent of its student body.
(via Jack & Jill Politics)
Jesus christ. This makes me sick.
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I don’t think you guys understand how deeply this goes.
Shel Silverstein was my hero. Particularly because he got me into poetry, into reading in general. To see that he would actually write this…it breaks my fucking heart because another childhood hero has been destroyed. Of course, the poem I know is the “Googies Are Coming” - changed due to controversy.
I can’t really find words right now, but I’ll get back to you….
We live in a white supremacist society. No one is exempt from being effected by it. I hate when this happens though.
really?!
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IMPORTANT! re-reblogging again because when i called the Gov’s office, the person who answered said he’s not likely to change his mind and that it’s now up to the Supreme Court to decide. PLEASE, IF YOU CAN, fax the Supreme Court of Alabama and urge them to grant a Stay of Execution to Derrick Mason. their fax number is (334) 229-0522.
and here are some online free faxing websites [up to 2 faxes a day for free]:
The judge in his case has requested clemency, not least because he had inadequate legal representation which led to the suppression of mitigating factors in his case.
And again, for those who say that the death penalty in the United States is not about race—Derrick Mason is a Black man accused of killing a white woman.
You can contact Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to ask him to reconsider his denial of clemency in this case.
please do this/pass this around if possible.
EDIT: ALSO, (from here [link]), the Gov’s switchboard phone number is (334) 242-7100, and his fax number is (334) 353-0004.
here’s thecurvature’s phone anxiety advice, if it helps (link).
[snip]
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@1 year ago with 827 notes
So, this is back again.
They just changed their name and deleted any comments that weren’t “Yeah, dudes, I love being racist.” Some screencaps to refresh your memories. These comments weren’t found to be problematic by the moderators.
“can I attend this as a diseased-filled blanket?”
Event Creator: “as long as the disease you come as was in existence during the first thanksgiving.”
“I guarantee there is only like one pilgrim…”
Event Creator: “Lol yea we talked about that. Indian is the sexier easier choice. Might make it guys come as pilgrims girls come as Indians. Think that’s better?”
And everyone’s favorite ironic hipster cultural appropriator, Wednesday Addams. The person who makes it, like, totally okay to dress like an Indian despite perpetuating racist stereotypes about Native Americans.
I’m just repeating myself here now:
Racism and the sexualization of Native American women is not a joke. Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other US women. 1 out of 3 Native American women will be raped in her life. 86% of the rapes will be committed by non-Native American men. These statistics are from an Amnesty International report on violence against Native women. The source for this post is a link to the report where this information is from.
Please report this as offensive to facebook. The event is an open one, so we can all comment and say we’re not attending.
(Source: amnestyusa.org)
@1 year ago with 18 notesLet the truth laugh: Rick Perry’s Camp Niggerhead
In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
“Niggerhead,” it read.
Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray, began hunting there in the early 1980s. There is no definitive account of when the rock first appeared on the property. In an earlier time, the name on the rock was often given to mountains and creeks and rock outcroppings across the country. Over the years, civil rights groups and government agencies have had some success changing those and other racially offensive names that dotted the nation’s maps.
This exactly the kind of beneath the surface racism you can expect from White, Southern politicians. In public they’ll claim, “Oh, of course I’m not racist, racism is terrible, slurs have no place in society.” In private, they’ll retire back to Camp Niggerhead.
“My reaction is, that’s just very insensitive,” [Herman] Cain told Fox. “[There] isn’t a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”Rick Perry’s spokesperson has been denying that Perry entertained supporters at the camp, with it’s original name in tact, as alleged by the Washington Post article.
‘A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible,’ he said.
‘The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.
Rick Perry has spoken about how his conservatism was formed growing up in the rural south, but he rarely talks about what it was like growing up in the segregated South.
Racism is alive and well in Canada (via hpandthetreeofnothing)
HOLY FUCK /THIS/. Just this last week my instructor did this. “We don’t really have racism here like they do in America.” YES. YES WE DO.
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Ouch, Canada.
(via brinx)
Sorry for derailing, but the Northern half of the US tries to pull some similar shit with the Southern half. To be honest, I’d be afraid to live up North after some of the stuff I’ve heard. I’m afraid of White people who’ve never met a Black person. (I’m not denying ANY of the racism that does still go on in the South, though!)
(via fight-blog)
Today, at 72, [Shirley] Williams is a professor at Trent University and one of a number of survivors of Canada’s notorious residential schools for native children who will tell her story Wednesday at a special panel at Queen’s Park, part of a cross-cultural dialogue hosted by Lt.-Gov. David Onley.
“It was like living in jail in a foreign land,” said Williams, who attended St. Joseph’s Girls’ School in Spanish, Ont., until she quit at 16, an act she called “liberation.” “We were always hungry and we couldn’t talk to the older girls, even our own sisters — but if parents didn’t send us they could go to jail for up to a year.”
But beyond the hardship and the homesickness, what these schools took away were the pillars of a person’s identity, she said.
“Your spirituality — the beliefs you follow — and your language. You can’t treat other people like that.
“We’re telling our stories so it will never happen again to any child.”
And this is the shit that Canadians refuse to recognize in the present world. It’s funny because Canadians like to pat themselves on the back for being such peacemakers and good to people when this abuse has been going on for about a century. The last residential school closed at 1997, that was only about thirteen years ago.
I’m Canadian, and from what I’ve seen, Canadians generally know about the residential schools, but the average person doesn’t realise how bad it was, and they definitely don’t think of it being recent. Our education system has some serious holes when it comes to Aboriginal history.
every time residential schools get mentioned I want to fucking bawl. also, holy shit my grandfather and other elders went to the one in spanish too.
I’m 24 and my own mother attended a residential school for a period of time….I hate hearing about how residential schools were something that only happened in the early 1900’s.
Exactly, lols8. My Dad went to residential school for 10 years. My Kokhom, my Moshom, my Aunties, Uncles, even some of my cousins and friends went to residential schools. One of my uncles went to residential school from K-12; he has the personality profile of an orphan. He jokes about not having a heart, but really, how could he learn to love anything growing up in jail? This is not ancient history.
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So, this is back again.
They just changed their name and deleted any comments that weren’t “Yeah, dudes, I love being racist.” Some screencaps to refresh your memories. These comments weren’t found to be problematic by the moderators.
“can I attend this as a diseased-filled blanket?”
Event Creator: “as long as the disease you come as was in existence during the first thanksgiving.”
“I guarantee there is only like one pilgrim…”
Event Creator: “Lol yea we talked about that. Indian is the sexier easier choice. Might make it guys come as pilgrims girls come as Indians. Think that’s better?”
And everyone’s favorite ironic hipster cultural appropriator, Wednesday Addams. The person who makes it, like, totally okay to dress like an Indian despite perpetuating racist stereotypes about Native Americans.
I’m just repeating myself here now:
Racism and the sexualization of Native American women is not a joke. Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other US women. 1 out of 3 Native American women will be raped in her life. 86% of the rapes will be committed by non-Native American men. These statistics are from an Amnesty International report on violence against Native women. The source for this post is a link to the report where this information is from.
Please report this as offensive to facebook. The event is an open one, so we can all comment and say we’re not attending.
(Source: amnestyusa.org)
The racism doesn’t have to end at Halloween. These people intend to make racism a staple of every holiday, not that Thanksgiving needed any help with that.
Because genocide is always funny.
And so is the sexualization of Native American women. And because I can never say this enough: Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other US women. 1 out of 3 Native American women will be raped in her life. 86% of the rapes will be committed by non-Native American men. These statistics are from an Amnesty International report on violence against Native women.
Please report this as offensive to facebook. The event is an open one, so we can all comment and say we’re not attending.
(Source: amnestyusa.org)
Let the truth laugh: Rick Perry’s Camp Niggerhead
In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
“Niggerhead,” it read.
Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray, began hunting there in the early 1980s. There is no definitive account of when the rock first appeared on the property. In an earlier time, the name on the rock was often given to mountains and creeks and rock outcroppings across the country. Over the years, civil rights groups and government agencies have had some success changing those and other racially offensive names that dotted the nation’s maps.
This exactly the kind of beneath the surface racism you can expect from White, Southern politicians. In public they’ll claim, “Oh, of course I’m not racist, racism is terrible, slurs have no place in society.” In private, they’ll retire back to Camp Niggerhead.
“My reaction is, that’s just very insensitive,” [Herman] Cain told Fox. “[There] isn’t a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”Rick Perry’s spokesperson has been denying that Perry entertained supporters at the camp, with it’s original name in tact, as alleged by the Washington Post article.
‘A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible,’ he said.
‘The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.
Rick Perry has spoken about how his conservatism was formed growing up in the rural south, but he rarely talks about what it was like growing up in the segregated South.
And do we even HAVE comprehensive data on American Indian poverty? Cuz unemployment on reservations is basically the rule, not the exception. I mean, it’s why they were even created in the first place…
(Bolding mine)
If you look it up you can find it, but you won’t find it on easy-to-find statistics pages like you will for the four races listed above. So no, it’s not comprehensive. Be prepared to search and search and search. Here’s a small sampling of what I was able to find after much searching.
I’m willing to bet that with the current economy the unemployment rate has gone up. I’d actually be incredibly surprised if it hasn’t. (And please don’t try the whole ” but casinos!” argument. There are very few tribes that have an extremely successful casino.)
Thanks for finding all this! I was just copying from the data I was able to find, so there were definitely holes. Such as, yeah, none of the data included indigenous people.
Thanks so much for finding this!!!
(via blackraincloud)
Racism is alive and well in Canada (via hpandthetreeofnothing)
HOLY FUCK /THIS/. Just this last week my instructor did this. “We don’t really have racism here like they do in America.” YES. YES WE DO.
(via knightoftaurus)
Ouch, Canada.
(via brinx)
Sorry for derailing, but the Northern half of the US tries to pull some similar shit with the Southern half. To be honest, I’d be afraid to live up North after some of the stuff I’ve heard. I’m afraid of White people who’ve never met a Black person. (I’m not denying ANY of the racism that does still go on in the South, though!)
(via fight-blog)
FOLEY, Alabama — Many of the 223 Hispanic students at Foley Elementary came to school Thursday crying and afraid, said Principal Bill Lawrence.
Nineteen of them withdrew, and another 39 were absent, Lawrence said, the day after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens and requires schools to ask new enrollees for a copy of their birth certificate.
Even more of the students — who are U.S. citizens by birth, but their parents may not be — were expected to leave the state over the weekend, Lawrence said.
“It’s been a challenging day, an emotional day. My children have been in tears today. They’re afraid,” he said. “We have been in crisis-management mode, trying to help our children get over this.”
Foley Elementary has the area’s largest percentage of Hispanic students, about 20 percent of its student body.
(via Jack & Jill Politics)
Jesus christ. This makes me sick.
(via iinventedeverything)
Today, at 72, [Shirley] Williams is a professor at Trent University and one of a number of survivors of Canada’s notorious residential schools for native children who will tell her story Wednesday at a special panel at Queen’s Park, part of a cross-cultural dialogue hosted by Lt.-Gov. David Onley.
“It was like living in jail in a foreign land,” said Williams, who attended St. Joseph’s Girls’ School in Spanish, Ont., until she quit at 16, an act she called “liberation.” “We were always hungry and we couldn’t talk to the older girls, even our own sisters — but if parents didn’t send us they could go to jail for up to a year.”
But beyond the hardship and the homesickness, what these schools took away were the pillars of a person’s identity, she said.
“Your spirituality — the beliefs you follow — and your language. You can’t treat other people like that.
“We’re telling our stories so it will never happen again to any child.”
And this is the shit that Canadians refuse to recognize in the present world. It’s funny because Canadians like to pat themselves on the back for being such peacemakers and good to people when this abuse has been going on for about a century. The last residential school closed at 1997, that was only about thirteen years ago.
I’m Canadian, and from what I’ve seen, Canadians generally know about the residential schools, but the average person doesn’t realise how bad it was, and they definitely don’t think of it being recent. Our education system has some serious holes when it comes to Aboriginal history.
every time residential schools get mentioned I want to fucking bawl. also, holy shit my grandfather and other elders went to the one in spanish too.
I’m 24 and my own mother attended a residential school for a period of time….I hate hearing about how residential schools were something that only happened in the early 1900’s.
Exactly, lols8. My Dad went to residential school for 10 years. My Kokhom, my Moshom, my Aunties, Uncles, even some of my cousins and friends went to residential schools. One of my uncles went to residential school from K-12; he has the personality profile of an orphan. He jokes about not having a heart, but really, how could he learn to love anything growing up in jail? This is not ancient history.
(Source: wildunicornherd)
(via binesi-manidoo)
IMPORTANT! re-reblogging again because when i called the Gov’s office, the person who answered said he’s not likely to change his mind and that it’s now up to the Supreme Court to decide. PLEASE, IF YOU CAN, fax the Supreme Court of Alabama and urge them to grant a Stay of Execution to Derrick Mason. their fax number is (334) 229-0522.
and here are some online free faxing websites [up to 2 faxes a day for free]:
The judge in his case has requested clemency, not least because he had inadequate legal representation which led to the suppression of mitigating factors in his case.
And again, for those who say that the death penalty in the United States is not about race—Derrick Mason is a Black man accused of killing a white woman.
You can contact Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to ask him to reconsider his denial of clemency in this case.
please do this/pass this around if possible.
EDIT: ALSO, (from here [link]), the Gov’s switchboard phone number is (334) 242-7100, and his fax number is (334) 353-0004.
here’s thecurvature’s phone anxiety advice, if it helps (link).
[snip]
(Source: se-smith)
