This realization you’re describing is really like the “you’re in the matrix” scene in the matrix. lol, forgive me as I’m not the most well read but I do love me my movies these days.
When you realize the extent of imperial/colonialism that your country not only has done and continues to do in places most Americans will never go but also realizing your country is 100% founded on racist genocidal colonial settling it really hits different to listen to local politicians who’s hearts are in the right place but will never admit to America’s evils and then even justify them by saying we are the most diverse country in the world and that’s a good thing. Mf it is a good thing, but a lot of these diaspora can’t go home.
We had a guy who was friends with segregationists running as a “progressive” Democrat in his fucking eighties. Don’t believe me, look up “Strom Thurmond” and a certain senator who looked up to him. It makes the world a little less fun, looking at things materially, but it brings a level of understanding your political environment and your country in general than most have and that does feel really good. When you meet other people who get it, that really makes life worth living.
Anyway rant over, sorry there’s not really a point. Godspeed my native friend
graham platner is going to become the next strom thurmond and the fact that all of family members still believe that they’re essentially white spanairds despite dna tests saying otherwise proves that most people prefer the matrix – just like in the movies. lol
lol. I’m there with you, maybe the opposite. My grandfather was like less than 25% Cherokee (like everybody else in USA) and with all the art my grandma made and collected and all of my aunts and uncles and dads interests they act like they’re fucking native while I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh
… I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh
over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do.
in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people.
my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them; and i think it says something about their perspective that they would rather keep 85% of their own people out in the cold rather than give them access to tribal benefits.
I didn’t mean to imply anything about natives I just meant the people I know that literally grew up on a reservation where they were born, (they had no choice) some of them white people themselves, that have a very different life when contrasted to the lives my family had which is specifically very, very disconnected from Native American heritage and is actually directly in line with colonial racist history to where I even wonder if there’s any evidence my family even is native at all or if my racist ass white grandpa just said that he was because he thought it was cooler than being polish-german-whatever else. It sounds crazy but it’s literally more probable than him having any tribal in him at all, and it’s the same case for a lot of Americans
im endlessly fascinated by the social phenomenon where people claim heritages that they don’t have. our families seem to be the opposites in this regard due to my family insisting that they’re whitest of europeans even both dna and mirrors making it crystal clear that they’re not. lol
This realization you’re describing is really like the “you’re in the matrix” scene in the matrix. lol, forgive me as I’m not the most well read but I do love me my movies these days.
When you realize the extent of imperial/colonialism that your country not only has done and continues to do in places most Americans will never go but also realizing your country is 100% founded on racist genocidal colonial settling it really hits different to listen to local politicians who’s hearts are in the right place but will never admit to America’s evils and then even justify them by saying we are the most diverse country in the world and that’s a good thing. Mf it is a good thing, but a lot of these diaspora can’t go home.
We had a guy who was friends with segregationists running as a “progressive” Democrat in his fucking eighties. Don’t believe me, look up “Strom Thurmond” and a certain senator who looked up to him. It makes the world a little less fun, looking at things materially, but it brings a level of understanding your political environment and your country in general than most have and that does feel really good. When you meet other people who get it, that really makes life worth living.
Anyway rant over, sorry there’s not really a point. Godspeed my native friend
graham platner is going to become the next strom thurmond and the fact that all of family members still believe that they’re essentially white spanairds despite dna tests saying otherwise proves that most people prefer the matrix – just like in the movies. lol
lol. I’m there with you, maybe the opposite. My grandfather was like less than 25% Cherokee (like everybody else in USA) and with all the art my grandma made and collected and all of my aunts and uncles and dads interests they act like they’re fucking native while I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh
over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do.
in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people.
my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them; and i think it says something about their perspective that they would rather keep 85% of their own people out in the cold rather than give them access to tribal benefits.
I didn’t mean to imply anything about natives I just meant the people I know that literally grew up on a reservation where they were born, (they had no choice) some of them white people themselves, that have a very different life when contrasted to the lives my family had which is specifically very, very disconnected from Native American heritage and is actually directly in line with colonial racist history to where I even wonder if there’s any evidence my family even is native at all or if my racist ass white grandpa just said that he was because he thought it was cooler than being polish-german-whatever else. It sounds crazy but it’s literally more probable than him having any tribal in him at all, and it’s the same case for a lot of Americans
thanks for clearing that up.
im endlessly fascinated by the social phenomenon where people claim heritages that they don’t have. our families seem to be the opposites in this regard due to my family insisting that they’re whitest of europeans even both dna and mirrors making it crystal clear that they’re not. lol