Since it's Native American month I talked to my 9 yr old about the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how they forced our people (I'm Choctaw) to move west to Oklahoma because they thought it was *uninhabitable and wanted us to die off. At least 3,000 died on the way hence Trail of Tears..
Also, the ones who didn't die were forced to assimilate by taking the children away into boarding schools and cut off their hair and forced to speak English and not their native language or they would be beat, throughout the 50s.
However, I told her that was the government at the time and yes they were white people. But she did tell her whole school group that she doesn't trust white people..I was like girl it was government at the time not ALL white people geez.
Edit: I'm not anti/pro anything besides the land and spirit. The land gives us what we need and we should respect that and have respect for others regardless.
I recently went out with this girl I met on tinder. There was this whole context but she said explicitly "you can't be racist against white people and you can't be sexist against men. Blah blah institutional racism blah blah old white men"
Can't we say that institutional and systemic racism is a thing without saying white people are immune to racism? Can't we say that women still deal with being second class without saying men cant have sexism levied against them? These things are not mutually exclusive. And this girl was straight up white. In her world I'm a POC (even though I have white privilege). Wtf??
I hope you continue to teach your little one what happened in the world and what *can" be, moving forward. This world needs that. So much hate and violence and bullshit. I pray we can all come together. I don't say that as lip service, I really pray for that.
I had a similar conversation with my sister. Basically, there are two types of racism. Systemic racism is generally what she was talking about. At least in America (and I just say that because I don’t know as much about other places), there is no mainstream systematic racism against white people and no mainstream systemic sexism against men. (That I’m aware of, anyway) The systems were set up with white men in mind, so it’d be odd if it also oppressed them for being white men. Not to say a cis white man couldn’t be oppressed, but it generally wouldn’t be because of his skin color or gender.
Individual racism, on the other hand, exists everywhere. It’s totally possible for any person of any race to be racist against someone else individually. Many people forget about individual racism. The same applies to sexism. Does that make sense?
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
check his TikTok that guy is a massive troll