This kid is getting offers to go to the White House and Facebook HQ and see freaking Mars rovers I’m pissed his school and city police are so goddamn islamophobic but shit the response is so fucking cool!!!!!
don’t let this be swept under the rug. this is another instance where a girl will not feel beautiful for the color of her skin, another time where a girl will not have representation. this is another instance where young girls will be wondering why they don’t have perfect skin and curves. don’t let this be forgotten about.
*vomits furiously*
Actresses were turned down because they said they weren’t looking for a Native American actor. DO NOT SUPPORT PAN!!! This is a Warner Bros. production, directed by Joe Wright (who has taken credit for deciding the tribe would be multicultural but gave it a white poster child ((and a white leading cast all around))).
Joe Wright quote about the movie:
“In the book, the natives are described as being redskins, which is a term I don’t really recognize so I couldn’t work out where they were natives of. I thought should they be Native American or African or Mongolian and then I thought well better if they are just sort of from everywhere and that they are all natives of planet Earth and so that’s what we did.”
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He knows damn well what red skin means, we all do. There’s ONLY a fucking Major League Baseball team named that with a racist caricature just to make sure we all clear.
God. It’s gross enough but when you add in his smarmy excuses it’s so much worse. And like, MAYBE that could have been a way to handle it if the rest of the movie was also diverse and not tied to white source material? But no.
“We’re ALL native sweetie because we were ALL born on earth uwu”.
POCS were thriving and had expansive civilizations BEFORE white people came,colonized everything, and “discovered them”?
Oh…
Go read the source article. And if you haven’t, go read “1491” by Charles Mann. Indigenous people in the Amazon actually found a way to farm that instead of wearing out the soil, actually IMPROVED it with extensive farming. It’s called terra preta and no one has been able to replicate it (not even living indigenous people), and if it were to become replicable it could have enormous impact on agriculture worldwide. #indigenoustechftw
Charles Mann states that for a long time (and still today) outsiders have thought of Amazonian Indian people as “remnants” of the most “primitive” state of humanity, when in fact evidence increasingly points to the idea that modern Amazonian indigenous ways of life are the result of massive upheaval in the face colonizing disease, warfare, land theft, and general genocide. That, effectively, modern Amazonian indigenous people are living in the aftermath of what probably looked a lot like an apocalypse to them.
Which, well, no duh.
are you sure it wasn’t some alien technology that let them farm sustainably before the White Men came & showed them how to civilised?
White people theworld didnt start with your invasion
I also read that the Amazon is just a giant garden. In other words, IT’S MAN MADE!!!! THE PEOPLE CREATED A STABLE ECOSYSTEM!!!! THEY WERE FUCKING GENIUSES. Read it here and here.
omg… it’s almost like… POC… are… human?? like with higher level operations and intellect? whatttt?? i thought evolution only occurred in europe??!??!?
Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts
well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?
this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.
the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.
It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.
The only plausible explanation for these findings is that a considerable number of transoceanic voyages in both directions across both major oceans were completed between the 7th millennium BC and the European age of discovery. Our growing knowledge of early maritime technology and its accomplishments gives us confidence that vessels and nautical skills capable of these long-distance travels were developed by the times indicated. These voyages put a new complexion on the extensive Old World/New World cultural parallels that have long been controversial.
White people: Egyptians had boats?????
People of Color: It’s not like they lived IMMEDIATELY BESIDE A RIVER OR ANYTHING, fuck.
