February 2012
“A group of folks, my folks included, formed the American Indian Leadership...”
– Gerald Clifford, The Search for Indian, except taken from Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education
adailyriot:
It’s important to remember that what terms Native people choose to use is a personal choice. There are Natives out there whom do not like the term...
Passive-aggressive NDN insults:
lolololol
bittybandolero:
Getting a picture message of someone smudging over a photo of you.
Burn(ing sage).
“The ‘Stoic, Silent Redman’ of the past who turned the other cheek to white...”
– Lehman Brightman (Mvskoke-Sioux, founder of Warpath, 1968)
“I’m not going to settle for a country where a few people do really well, and...”
– President Obama speaking to UAW (via destroythegop)
4 Things The Jeremy Lin Story Reveals About Modern... →
Sometimes Cracked really comes out with good stuff.
“From 1815 on, instead of spreading
democracy, we exported the ideology of white...”
– Lies My Teacher Told Me (via littlegrenades)
Damn, I made some good dinner.
Pasta with olive oil, sauteed sardines with garlic and basil.
Then a couple of homemade biscuits.
I like carbs.
“Iggy Azalea on the XXL freshman list is all wrong. How can you endorse a white...”
– Azealia Banks on hipster white girls appropriating Hip-Hop
Reason #238479238749823 to love her.
Also her album is gonna be called “Broke with Expensive Taste”
and she’s working with MIA.
(via urbanafrofuturism)
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones →
timekiller-s:
Mac McClelland’s account of going to work in an online-order shipping warehouse. Must read.
I'm sure someone else has already come up with...
poemsofthedead:
I don’t mean white identifying, though there are plenty of those too. But I think white identifying is specifically for POC who deny they are POC or only use it strategically and mostly consider themselves white. White empathizing is what I’m going to use to refer to POC who know they are POC, seem proud of their culture, but still defend white people and whiteness all the time....