In 1847 during the Irish potato famine, the Choctaw Nation of Native Americans donated $147 to assist with famine relief. An Irish town built a memorial to thank Native Americans. (source)
According to Wikipedia it was actually $710 and when you adjust for inflation it makes just under $20,000. I’ve heard people making fun of this like it was some crappy amount of money that they donated but it was a pretty big deal.
Good guy Choctaws
Look listen did you know we aren’t taught about this in school??? In Northern Ireland where I live?? We’re taught about the famine and how many Irish people died and why and how many went to America etc but we are NOT taught that a) the English REFUSED to give aid and in fact TOOK MORE FOOD and that b) Native Americans sent money AND grain!! To a country they weren’t even close to! That they’d barely even heard of!! Why aren’t we taught this? (I fucking know why)
…you mean countries that are still recovering from colonialism and other western intervention??? let’s not sugar coat the reason why their “development” was hindered and act like they are still in those stages because they are inherently inferior to western countries. the west saw their greatness and they left them in ruin on purpose. referring to these countries as developing or third world is fucking degrading terminology that takes away responsibility from countries like the UK and the US.
I’m very glad that movies like Pacific Rim and Fury Road and The Force Awakens are as colorful as they are, because I am really, really tired of desaturated movies.
I’m glad <insert movie> has blacks people because if it didn’t meet my arbitrary percentage standard I might just have to call someone a bigot
………you’re an ugly racist, but this is literally talking about the color palette the films used, not who is acting in them.
“I like the film aesthetics of this movie” “Wow what is this some kind of SJW bullshit??”
“I like colours lads” “FUCKING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD”
When disaster struck Mount Everest in 2014, an unprecedented avalanche wiped out 16 Sherpas but left dozens of wealthy Western climbers untouched. Mourning evolved into a Sherpa strike, and deep-rooted tensions erupted after more than half a century bubbling below the surface.
Who better to showcase the racial standoff than a privileged white American?
This kind of racism is common when westerners come to Nepal actually. They have a sense of privilege they believe they should be bestowed here.
Some had the audacity to tell me that Nepal shouldn’t develop because of the pollution and how they “aren’t able to enjoy the nature and smoke weed” here. Yes, many of the people who travel to Nepal indeed do have a hippy lifestyle yet they don’t truly understand the culture nor try to. It’s saddening to see.
As for words about climbing Everest. Many of you don’t know that much of that money doesn’t even go to helping the Sherpa who guide you or the local community as much as you want to think it does. Much of it is spent on climbing gear (expensive ones), food, plane tickets, and travel expenses, non of which help the community but rather the already wealthy businesspeople.
The money spent on Everest is regarded as “wasted money” because it is spent on a one time products.
That same money from one climber can truly help to change the Sherpa’s community and way of life, yet the westerners that go don’t ever really care about it. These individuals risk their lives so you can have your little moment of ‘glory’ and yet you don’t truly appreciate the life threatening work they do.
I am increasingly of the opinion that Everest should be zoned off from leisure climbing and left alone.
Fuck Western Everest climbers.
Not to mention that Everest is NOT even its real fucking name. Its name in Tibetan is Chomolungma, which means “Goddess Mother of Mountains.” The British named it Everest after a surveyor with the excuse that they “couldn’t find a local name” which is bullshit because Chomolungma has been named as such for centuries and they probably didn’t even bother to ask.
The Nepalese people worship Chomolungma as sacred. In fact, every expedition must begin with a Puja ceremony to worship the spirits of the mountain or the Sherpas will pretty much refuse to work. They didn’t really go up the mountain until Westerners started doing it because they held it in reverence and felt it should be left alone.
But who fucking cares as long as those rich Western vanity climbers get their selfie at “the top of the world,” right? It’s all worth it no matter how many Sherpas die, how much pain and destruction they leave in their wake, if they get what they want.
1 Cherokee Trail of Tears 2 Japanese American internment 3 Philippine-American War 4 Jim Crow 5 The genocide of Native Americans 6 Transatlantic slave trade 7 The Middle Passage 8 The history of White American racism 9 Black Codes 10 Slave patrols 11 Ku Klux Klan 12 The War on Drugs 13 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 14 How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide 15 How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide 16 White anti-racism 17 The Southern strategy 18 The rape of enslaved women 19 Madison Grant 20 The Indian Wars 21 Human zoos 22 The colonization of aboriginals in australia 23 White flight 24 Redlining 25 Proposition 14 26 Homestead Act 27 Tulsa Riots 28 Rosewood massacre 29 Tuskegee Experiment 30 Lynching 31 Hollywood stereotypes 32 Indian Appropriations Acts 33 Immigration Act of 1924 34 Sundown towns 35 Chinese Exclusion Act 36 Emmett Till 37 Vincent Chin 38 Islamophobia 39 Indian boarding schools 40 King Philip’s War 41 Bacon’s Rebellion 42 American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery 43 History of the gun 44 History of the police 45 History of prisons 46 History of white suburbia 47 Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism 48 George Wallace Governor of Alabama 49 Cointelpro 50 Real estate steering 51 School tracking 52 Mass incarceration of black men 53 Boston school busing riots
By the way I got this list from facebook so I’m not an expert but I encourage everyone to look some of this stuff up, and so much more, if I missed something, go ahead and add!
Oh yeah,
54 chopping off indigenous women´s breasts off of leisure during the genocide
55 slamming indigenous children against huge rocks during the genocide
56 spaniards dividing into groups the indigenous women each white settler was gonna own and rape during the american genocide
57 In the catholic missions nailing native americans on crosses to represent the 12 disciples
58 and this: (I recommend the book The American Holocaust)
I don´t think yall understand how wicked these people are
59. The Unangan evacuation and internment during World War II
60. Dropping an Atomic Bomb on Japan even though the military knew that Japan was beaten and was near surrender.
61. The government assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
62. White america’s support of Apartheid
63. Nazism
64. Skinheads
65. Various lies attempting to paint Ancient Egyptians as white Europeans
66. “Modifying” authentic Egyptian artworks that demonstrate Black characteristics so they instead made it seem that Egyptians were white
67. Raping of Native American women and girls
68. The murder of Taíno Natives on the island of Ayiti (which we now call Haiti)
69. White racism ingrained in GI Bill, New Deal, Social Security Act and more
70. Second class badge (The History of Racism within Police Departments)
71. The ordering by the PBA to have cops terrorize NYC’s black and Puerto Rican communities
72. The destruction of Black Wall Street
73. The destruction of at least 10 other thriving Black communities
74. The History of Serial Killers (aka white males on murderous rampages)
75. White corporate sweatshop (Nike, Adidas)
76. Human trafficking
77. High rate of child molestation and rape among white communities
78. Forced sterilization of Blacks and Native women
79. Racist indoctrination of Black women through the media (ex: convincing Black women that unless they straightened their hair, they would not be considered beautiful, hired for jobs, make a living and etc)
80. “Last Hired, First Fired” racist hiring practices
81. Creation of various racial slurs
82. Poisoning of the environment through illegal disposal of toxins
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👀 y’all still want it or???
They always ask for it every February
83. Whitewashing in Hollywood 84. Using National Guard to barricade black folk in a literally burning neighborhood during Watts Rebellion (portrayed as Watts Riots) 85. Mass cultural appropriation by white-owned and white-market brands for profit of Navajo, African-American, Hindi, etc. traditions
This is the America they’re referring to when they say Make America Great Again.
Native Americans weren’t allowed US citizenship until 1924.
Let that sink in. We lived here first…for thousands of years. And less than a hundred years ago we were finally given citizenship.
We also fought in WWI despite not being US citizens.
In Arizona, natives weren’t granted the right to vote until 1948. Think how that type of neglect ties into resource colonization as infrastructure was developed within years prior.
In addition: the indigenous peoples of Canada were not recognized as Human Beings until the year 1960. Now let that shit sink in.
In the US it wasn’t until 1968 that the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed and allowed for the right to freedom of speech / assembly / press, a jury trial, the right to an attorney etc. It’s so fucking frustrating.
and it wasn’t until 1978 that we were legally allowed to practice our own religions. in a nation founded on religious freedoms, it was illegal to practice our own religions. in our own country. how fucked up is that?
Aaaand Native Americans weren’t entitled to their own languages (had no legal rights to teach them in their schools, use them in business) until the Native American Language Act of 1990.
I teach this to my students, because NONE of it is in a single textbook. This is and act of indoctrination
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