Madame Thursday

[Image: A very racist, horrible image of a white woman looking very dramatically sad while wearing a faux headdress appropriatively. Beneath is the text: “If you didn’t spend your welfare checks on booze and fry bread you wouldn’t have to be so obviously jealous of the beautiful girls at coachella.”]

fyeahcap:

nicholas-lovecraft:

blog-anglophonic:

josipbeantito:

custerdiedforyoursins:

Oh my. I thought this was a joke. It turns out that there really are people out there *that* attached to dollar store-quality headdresses that a tumblr was made to proclaim how stupid Natives are for disliking them.
I have nothing else to say about this, it’s that pathetic to me.

This? This shit right here?

More white people are on welfare than any others in this country. Fuck you.

Do not EVER mock the generational psychological and emotional effects of hate, legalized genocide, and abuse. We should be BOWING to Native, First Nations, Metis, and other indigenous people. They’ve withstood all that and they are still here, and they are proving you wrong, and fucking up your racism - that’s where all your hate is coming from. Fuck you.

Any white person who takes from another culture opportunistically and to further their own shit is not beautiful. They’re racist trash.

I WANT TO KNOW WHO MADE THIS RACIST IMAGE.

You don’t get to drop shit like this on the blogosphere, insult my close friends, humiliate me as a white person and then hide behind anonymity.

People at Coachella can suck my dick. 

If you ugly assholes didn’t spend your trust funds on cocaine and molly you wouldn’t be pulling shit like this on the internet.

Fucking DIE.

i just want to address two things because the rest of the post is completely useless and derailing:

I don’t know too incredibly much about cultural appropriation,

but you feel that you are somehow necessary or capable of entering in the conversation because why?

but I don’t see why people get so fucking butthurt over some stereotypical hipster white girl wearing a headdress.

i don’t see why white people so butthurt over not being able to wear warbonnets. so why do you reference one and not the other? stop prioritizing white people over natives and you might actually learn something.

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[Image: Close up of a very light skinned blonde haired person looking down with their eyes closed, very appropriatively and offensively wearing stripes of red pain on their cheeks as faux-warpaint.]

weetz:

hellobabybird:

I wish I was an Indian.

YEAH I KINDA WISH SOMEONE HAD BEATEN YOU UNTIL YOU DIDN’T SPEAK YOUR MOTHER TONGUE ANYMORE. I WISH SOMEONE HAD RAPED YOU BECAUSE THEIR SKIN WAS LIGHTER THAN YOURS AND IT MADE YOU DISPOSABLE. I KINDA WISH YOU WERE TARGETTED EVERYDAY OF YOUR LIFE BY RACISM. I KINDA WISH YOU HAD BEEN SEQUESTERED IN A TERRITORY CALLED ‘A RESERVATION’ TO LIVE IN A SHACK THAT HAS NO PLUMBING. I KINDA WISH YOU HAD TO WATCH COUNTLESS MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY COMMIT SUICIDE OR SUFFER WITH ADDICTIONS. I WISH YOUR FAMILY WASN’T REALLY A FAMILY BECAUSE WHEN YOUR GRANDPARENTS WERE FORCED TO GO TO SCHOOLS WHERE CLERGYMEN BEAT AND SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM, THEY WERE REMOVED FROM THEIR TRADITIONAL FAMILY DYNAMIC WHICH RESULTED IN THE FRAGMENTED FUTURE GENERATIONS HAVING BACKWARDS CONCEPTS OF PARENTING SINCE THEIR GRANDPARENTS AND THEIR PARENTS WERE NEVER ACTUALLY PARENTED.

YEAH, I WISH YOU WERE ‘INDIAN’ TOO.

MAYBE THEN YOU WOULDN’T DO SHIT LIKE THIS.

(Source: les-yeux-de-la-lune, via weetz-deactivated20120417)

[Image: The front cover of an August 1965 issue of Ebony magazine that features a black background with the white silhouette of a face on the right side and next to it the text: “The White Problem in America”.]

darkjez:

The Prison of the White American View of History

James Baldwin writing in the August 1965 issue of Ebony magazine, starting on page 47:

My point of view certainly is formed by my history, and it is probable that only a creature despised by history finds history a questionable matter. On the other hand, people who imagine history flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world.

This is the place in which, it seems to me, most white Americans find themselves. Impaled. They are dimly, or vividly, aware that the history they have fed themselves is mainly a lie, but they do not know how to release themselves from it, and they suffer enormously from the resulting personal incoherence. This incoherence is heard nowhere more plainly than in those stammering, terrified dialogues white Americans sometimes entertain with that black conscience, the black man in America.

The nature of this stammering can be reduced to a plea: Do not blame me. I was not there. I did not do it. My history has nothing to do with Europe or the slave trade. Anyway, it was your chiefs who sold you to me. I was not present on the middle passage. I am not responsible for the textile mills of Manchester, or the cotton fields of Mississippi. Besides, consider how the English, too, suffered in those mills and in those awful cities! I also despise the governors of Southern states and the sheriffs of Southern counties, and I also want your child to have a decent education and rise as high as his capabilities will permit. I have nothing against you, nothing! What have you got against me? What do you want? But, on the same day, in another gathering, and in the most private chamber of his heart always, the white American, remains proud of that history for which he does not wish to pay, and from which, materially, he has profited so much.

On that same day, in another gathering, and in the most private chamber of his heart always, the black American finds himself facing the terrible roster of his lost: the dead, black junkie; the defeated, black father; the unutterably weary, black mother; the unutterably ruined black girl. And one begins to suspect an awful thing: that people believe that they deserve their history, and that when they operate on this belief, they perish. But one knows that they can scarcely avoid believing that they deserve it; one’s short time on this earth is very mysterious and very dark and very hard. I have known many black men and women and black boys and girls who really believed that it was better to be white than black, whose lives were ruined or ended by this belief; and I, myself, carried the seeds of this destruction within me for a long time.

via Abagond

[Image: A light skinned person dressed in appropriative, offensive, racist faux-Native dress with a black skirt and top with fringes, a long faux-Dreamcatcher necklace, faux-warpaint and a fake feathered headdress. They are (of course) holding a drink in one hand as they smile at the camera.]

whipcrackinfloozy:

what do I look like, why are my legs spread like that? hahaha

my outfit is banging though, love my costume.. shame about my face/my stance

Your outfit is horribly racist and offensive. This is NOT OKAY for you to wear. This is NOT OKAY for you to go to a party in. You should not be wearing this. 

You need to check out ALL of the posts on My Culture Is Not A Trend and this open letter to people like you at Native Appropriations. If you are any kind of a decent person who cares about whether they hurt others, you will read those posts, you will STOP dressing like this and you will encourage those around you to do the same. 

This costume is not okay. Please never wear this again. 

[Image: A screencap of a facebook post that reads: “The moment I read taht there is a scholarship exclusive to “minorities”, I realized it sucks to be white. If someone tried to make a scholarship just for white kids, it would be racist and wrong. >.> Go America.”]

karnythia:

panasonicyouth:

whitewhine:

Perhaps the Whitest Whine of all: “It sucks to be white”

i can’t

i just can’t

So all those scholarships for Irish, Polish, Italian, English, Welsh, etc. aren’t specific to white people? Oh, or how about the fact that 99.75% of all scholarships are available to white people? Not to mention the history behind race based scholarships which includes POC not being able to access federal money for college. Oh yeah, & not being able to attend most colleges.

Notice that this person said, “there is A scholarship exclusive to minorities.” Not that there are hundreds or too many. Just that there is A - implying a single - scholarship for minorities. Apparently the very thought of there being even one single little thing, even ONE scholarship that isn’t open to white people is just enraging and unbearable to this person. 

You want an education, person? Start by doing the assigned reading:

1. Ten Myths about Affirmative Action. This will be on the pop quiz:

“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students who failed to meet their university’s minimum standards for admission, according to Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. These kids are “people with a long-standing relationship with the university,” or in other words, the children of faculty, wealthy alumni and politicians.

According to Schmidt, these unqualified but privileged kids are nearly twice as common on top campuses as Black and Latino students who had benefited from affirmative action.”

2. White Students Receive More Scholarship Money than Non-White Students.

3. White Students Recieved Almost Twice as Much Assistance As All Minority Groups Combined in the 2007-2008 School Year.

Try handling that much and then come back to me. Ugh. White entitlement: Because if I can’t have everything, I’ll make sure you get nothing. 

PS - I’m removing the “first world problems” tag, because umm, no. Higher learning institutions are not exclusive to highly developed nations. Other nations around the world besides those in the “first world” (woah is that problematic as hell as a phrase) have universities, colleges, and higher learning institutions and have for some time now. So, yeah. Not really a good tag to have.