So it's wrong for anyone to even write about your culture? How do expect anyone to leave a state of ignorance if your culture isn't taught in an academic setting? You need to open your mind. Do you realize how damaging it is - to any culture or heritage - to be left out of history and education? This blog is rife with the very ignorance it claims to work against.

It is wrong for people outside of our culture to study us. You have no place in doing so. There is a difference between learning from people from that culture rather than having outsiders speak for us. Maybe you need to educate yourself about the white gaze that has dehumanized people all throughout academia/history.

Our cultures aren’t stepping stones for people to “leave a state of ignorance”. Stop treating us as tools for education!

No, do you realize how damaging academia is? Do you realize how our histories were erased and destroyed by your ancestors? You tell us that it is damaging to be left out, but the whole purpose of these systems is to erase us or change us in a way for white consumption.

So don’t try to educate me with your white academic privilege, realize that you are perpetuating violent institutions.

-Alan