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fangirlmarena:

jalwhite:

liquornspice:

If someone tells a white and Native person they “don’t look Indian,” you can be pretty certain a chorus of angry voices will come to their defense, OUTRAGED, writing about how stereotypical images of Indians negatively affect people’s lives and we don’t all look like Pocahontas and etc etc etc…

But someone just told a Black Native woman that violence against her doesn’t count and she doesn’t have a right to cry because her heritage doesn’t exist anyway…

And I just can’t over this. Because that is a horrific thing to say to someone. Someone who has written (to the sound of crickets) about her family experiencing unfathomable violence to the point they were driven away from their ancestral home their land…

But identity and sovereignty…none of that matters when you are Black and.

Because Black and doesn’t count.

Black and can’t be part of your community.

Black and can’t be because

Black isn’t human.

And the silence makes that painfully clear.

Thank you for speaking up.

edit: I’m sorry that you are always the one speaking up. Because it’s not just me that was being disrespected. You were too.I’m sorry that this is where we are STILL at.