Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Mom reveals young Chiefs fan is Native American after media attacks" video.

I was wondering how folks knew that he was appropriating the headdress. Considering the centuries of genocide and purposeful destruction of native culture, I think it's really time that folks that aren't members of these communities start actually listening to what the communities are saying. There's been a bunch of obsession over not using the term "Indian," but very little obsession over the horrible conditions on many reservations.
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@tru3sk1ll I recently saw a black shoplifter in blackface. Blackface is like going around with a toothbrush mustache. It's not itself particularly racist, but good luck doing either of those things without also engaging in racist things as they're incredibly tightly bound together. I do think that as time goes by that people will have stopped doing it long enough that the connection won't be there, but I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon.
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The issue there is that the last shoot out between natives and federal law enforcement occured in the '70s, and the conditions on the reservations remains dire in parts of the country.
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@ChristianNathanielLaCroix People use the term because they want to demonize mainstream Americans. If mainstream America is doing it it's cultural appropriation and if they're exporting it, then it's cultural imperialism. It's incredibly ignorant as none of the groups that are around today were the originators of the cultural things that they apparently now own,and somehow the Chinese adopting western styles of businessware isn't something that anybody bothers to talk about because it doesn't fit into any of those boxes.
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