#(everyone should be working on it but its esp wild to see disrespectful supposed-native people doing this kind of shit) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

snekdood · 2 months ago

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i think my problem with other ppl who claim to possibly have native american ancestry but dont know is when they dont seem to treat it like as if it could *actually* be true and just treat it like "yeah im a spicy white person" dshdfshjv? idk if that makes sense, like they dont do the internal work of deconstructing racism around native people, they dont start listening to native ppl- its more or less used as either an excuse for appropriation or just to seem more "exotic".

#strongly thinking of my sister in this regard .-.#i mean nowadays given the trajectory of her politics she'd probably deny its true to savor her White Purity or whatever #but back in the day when she went to raves she'd try to justify wearing headdresses and ik one of her excuses is 'we might possibly maybe #perhaps have native american in us so its ok' like no if you were actually respecting the cultures we might be from you'd know you #have to fucking earn a headdress. you have 0 respect for a culture you could be from.#possibly having native in you should prompt you to work on respecting native people at the very least.#(everyone should be working on it but its esp wild to see disrespectful supposed-native people doing this kind of shit)#also- maybe having native in us =/= being officially part of a tribe. so by default engaging in any cultural practices we're not directly #welcome to participate in is cultural appropriation. doesnt matter if we possibly have it we have no idea which tribe it could be #to begin with. how do we 'practice our culture' w/o knowing which one it is.#its like dress up- only native when its convenient. not considering what it would be like outside of that and if you'd really be ok w #other people being disrespectful of something you could be part of #theres just no actual thought put in to the possibility. you have to change the entire way you go about your life esp if you grew up under #the assumption you were white and all the baggage that comes with that- almost by default there will be racist shit to work on #idk. ik i get passionate about this subject a lot even though idefk if its true but ig at this particular junction in time i think its #important to loudly defend native ppl whether i end up actually being native or not yaknow.#the support shouldnt be conditional and ig i feel like for a lot of ppl who claim native ancestry but dont know it is

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