urbannativegirl:

mycultureisnotatrend:

suckafuck:

I’m in love with this portrait of Ivey that my friend Jane Cole shot for a photography class.

I am not.

What people don’t seem to get is that wearing another culture’s stereotypical attire and pretending you are one of them etc is akin to blackface.
Consider for a moment, what the reaction would be had this young lady donned blackface, posed with a watermelon and made a gang sign with her hands.  By wearing the war-paint, posing in a headdress, and making those ludicrous gestures, this is the Native American equivalent.

Racism is never sexy.

 They love dressing up using every stereotype they know, saying, “It’s so pretty!”.  I wonder if they would love living with those stereotypes, day after day.  I wonder if they’d love being called lazy, stupid, dumb, useless, good for nothing, and better off dead?  If they’d love being called a squaw?…I didn’t think so.

If you don’t want all of our cultural baggage and all of the trials and tribulations that go with it, quit dressing up and pretending to be us.