Hi, I'm a Native American, and I'm fed up with the appropriation of my culture by those desperate to be trendy, hip, ironic etc. Anonymous asked: As a child I did admire the character Pocahontas and I think the attack on the girl who said she "wanted to be a native" or whatever is unfair. Her wanting to be a native american probably had little to do with the race but more to do with the culture. Its interesting and beautiful... and of course deserves respect. I think she poorly communicated the feeling we all get when we wonder what it would be like to experience/be part of another amazing culture.
I attacked no one. And if we are really going to start throwing ‘unfair’ around, I think getting called out on an act of complicit, if not intentional racism falls pretty low on the scale compared with the daily experiences of systematic racism, oppression and dismissal native people experience every day. Now THAT actually is pretty damn ‘unfair.’
