I’ve seen that so many times. Worthless platitudes from people that exclusively hang out with other fairly well do to white liberals of certain political opinions, absolutely horrified to see me hanging out and partying with treaty natives, despite all their rhetoric about “acknowledging stolen land” and multiculturalism horseshit. It was so obvious they thought I’d get beat up or stabbed (although to be fair, that may have been likely if they tried hanging out, rez indians don’t much care for phonies). I saw no reason why moving my redneck ass to the city meant I could no longer be friendly with the local natives, had been around tribes my whole life.
I literally had a 7 page para going then realized I’m ranting. It’s deleted, here’s my new effort:
I worked in a healing center where the primary staff was basically 30 fat white women who drove overpriced SUVs, and shoved the agency’s sociopolitical agenda directly overtop the heads of the people they’re alleging to help, while going hat in hand for TRC money. They got the appropriated Indigenous imagery everywhere, the ribbon skirts, the smudge. They use their professed love of Indigenous culture like a “I deserve a cookie” pin, and wield it like a bat. They drive people away. I know many indigenous men who simply cannot access healing because of these pigs. I don’t need a man who’s suffered SA at the hands of his mother as a child, being forced to talk about his deepest feelings about “The Land Acknowledgment” because a bloated cunt wants to self-aggrandize and show just how empathetic she is vs how much it might hurt him to hear that shit coming out of her mouth.
You know who was at the Brady Landfill acting as a human shield for a week? In the muck and dirt with my indigenous friends? This bloated Ukrainian who’s grandparents were born in a snowbank in The Carpathias. Most active people in the Indigenous community working on reconciliation and healing were there. You know who wasn’t there, one person who worked at the healing center. They all had lots to say about it though, and what an important grassroots movement it was.
yknow one of the most recent glaring incidents (in the media) of this I recall recently, was when certain people tried to shame the governor of montana for how he was portraying native americans. They wouldn;t put the quote in the articles though, had to go out of my way. He was talking about having a good time at a (reservation) branding getting drunk with Indians, not a single part of it was insulting to anyone who’d ever been to a branding, white or indian, these are parties where you do start drinking heavy around noon, by the time the work is done, everyone has a good buzz going on and then the party starts.
I think many people are racist, both liberals and conservatives. Liberals just manifest their racism differently. That’s the unfortunate truth.
I’ve seen that so many times. Worthless platitudes from people that exclusively hang out with other fairly well do to white liberals of certain political opinions, absolutely horrified to see me hanging out and partying with treaty natives, despite all their rhetoric about “acknowledging stolen land” and multiculturalism horseshit. It was so obvious they thought I’d get beat up or stabbed (although to be fair, that may have been likely if they tried hanging out, rez indians don’t much care for phonies). I saw no reason why moving my redneck ass to the city meant I could no longer be friendly with the local natives, had been around tribes my whole life.
I literally had a 7 page para going then realized I’m ranting. It’s deleted, here’s my new effort:
I worked in a healing center where the primary staff was basically 30 fat white women who drove overpriced SUVs, and shoved the agency’s sociopolitical agenda directly overtop the heads of the people they’re alleging to help, while going hat in hand for TRC money. They got the appropriated Indigenous imagery everywhere, the ribbon skirts, the smudge. They use their professed love of Indigenous culture like a “I deserve a cookie” pin, and wield it like a bat. They drive people away. I know many indigenous men who simply cannot access healing because of these pigs. I don’t need a man who’s suffered SA at the hands of his mother as a child, being forced to talk about his deepest feelings about “The Land Acknowledgment” because a bloated cunt wants to self-aggrandize and show just how empathetic she is vs how much it might hurt him to hear that shit coming out of her mouth.
You know who was at the Brady Landfill acting as a human shield for a week? In the muck and dirt with my indigenous friends? This bloated Ukrainian who’s grandparents were born in a snowbank in The Carpathias. Most active people in the Indigenous community working on reconciliation and healing were there. You know who wasn’t there, one person who worked at the healing center. They all had lots to say about it though, and what an important grassroots movement it was.
yknow one of the most recent glaring incidents (in the media) of this I recall recently, was when certain people tried to shame the governor of montana for how he was portraying native americans. They wouldn;t put the quote in the articles though, had to go out of my way. He was talking about having a good time at a (reservation) branding getting drunk with Indians, not a single part of it was insulting to anyone who’d ever been to a branding, white or indian, these are parties where you do start drinking heavy around noon, by the time the work is done, everyone has a good buzz going on and then the party starts.