The awkward beginning of this interview is what happens when an an interviewer is uneducated about race, racism, and the history of oppression.
The interviewer begins nervously with a question from her own Euro-centric perspective. Because she seems to feel guilty and seems to want to hide the bad the Europeans have done – she seems to think others feel the same as her.
PS – around 17:00 you will here from the “Mexi-Kenyan” đ
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“Note:Â This post is based on âWe Talk, You Listenâ (1970) by Vine Deloria, Jr (pictured), a Native American (Sioux) writer. His ideas, my words:
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By 1970 it was clear to most people that American history was too white as commonly taught at schools and universities. There were two main schools of thought about how to set it right:”
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“Building Brides is our response to the persistence of violence in our society and against members of our ethnic communities, the most recent instance being that of the killings at the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin.
The primary objective of this event is to create, promote and render a thought-provoking civil discourse among members of our communities.”
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“It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called âcivilized,â so they would stop causing trouble with all of those âunacceptable ways.â
So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white peopleâs clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”
Eliminate your culture – or else.
My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.
No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.
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“In that practice of striving to disrupt oppressive-repressive discourses and decolonize the mind, Iâve decided to post 6 books that changed my lifeâsome of these are banned from being read by high school students in Arizona. I realize many of these are pretty much a no-brainer for those of us who are already attempting decolonial praxis in our daily struggle, but nevertheless I feel deeply indebted to these authors for impacting my life with their radical words, ideas, and their overall activist approach towards writing.”
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“The Taino genocide (1492-1518) is where the Spanish wiped out most of the Tainos (Arawaks), the native people of the northern Caribbean (present-day Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, etc). Columbus himself set it in motion and oversaw it till 1500.
According to one estimate, genocide and disease wiped out 3 million of the 3.5 million Tainos â 85%. Most were already dead when smallpox arrived in 1518.
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I read about this in a community college history book.
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CNN Headline News profiles professor of art Ken Gonzales-Day about his exhibition examining lynchings during California’s early history.
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“Our Nican Tlaca Indigenous Civilizations began over 6,000 years ago. Europeans destroyed our Nican Tlaca civilizations starting in 1492 with Columbus. We are currently in the process of reconstructing ourselves as independent Nican Tlaca people with our own Nican Tlaca Civilization — forever free of European colonialism.”
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Appalled by the murder of four little girls, a white Alabaman spoke out against racismâand was forever shunned for it.
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“The TaĂnos (tah-EE-noes), commonly called the Arawak Indians, were the main people who lived in the Caribbean when Columbus arrived in 1492. They are the ones he called âIndiansâ, thinking he was in Asia.”
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“Spanish genocide and disease wiped out 85% of the Tainos. It shocked Europe, even back then. And yet, despite all that â or, rather, because of all that â the Spanish debated whether the Tainos had souls in the Valladolid Debate (1550-1551).”
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