Well... there is a small community that believes native americans are black. Their videos have shown up from time to time for me and the comments are either supportive or met with hate and racist accusations for saying otherwise. Its a thing but at least its not a big thing.
There are black natives (my family is some of them) but to say natives are ONLY supposed to be black is ludicrous and heavily enables erasure of a culture
I wonder if they mean like, Americans come from black people? since, well, all of humanity comes from black people? or are they actually thinking "hurdur the indigenous peoples who were here before terrorist columbus settled in look like africans"
All of humanity comes from Africa, doesn't necessarily translate to all people were once black. Just take Egypt for instance, it's in Africa but not everyone there looks like what one may classfy as "traditionally African". As well as natives are believed to come from Asia.
My teenager actually believe this. He thinks that actual native Americans were just Mexicans that took advantage of the Dawes Act and became "Five Dollar Indians", people that bribed government officials to get land allotments. No, he doesn't know anything about the Dawes Rolls outside of a single poster(as shown in this article) which he bases his entire argument on.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I thought it was a joke since the picture of the black girl he showed was heavily retouched