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: There's kind of a sticky situation that I'm in and I'm wondering if you could give me some advice. Okay so on facebook everyone's been posting their halloween costumes and I see one girl has posted a picture of her as a native american. I click the picture only to realize it's my best friend. I tell her it's racist and offensive and why and that I'm not mad at her because she didn't know better. But I think she's still going anyway. What do I do? I felt sick and I want to cry.
You stood up for something. That’s amazing. Not everyone is going to listen. Maybe she felt like she had no other costume to wear. Could you help her put together another costume? Keep the lines of communication open. Just because she doesn’t want to change now, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t worth talking about in the first place.
