mayhapmurklins:

this-is-not-our-dia:

The Natives were forced to believe in christianity. It was all an attempt to completely erase cultural identity. We didn’t take christianity willingly. It’s not like we asked the colonizers to come and commit GENOCIDE to a whole continent. Nice try, but it doesn’t go both ways. Western culture was violently forced on us. and yes you did say that out loud, but no, it doesn’t make you smart and it wasn’t witty. It just demonstrated your ignorance. -Alan

First of all, FUCK YOU. If you are going to get all bitchy about face paint, may I please ask, as a Native American, that you stop using the genocide of my people to make your stupid fucking point.



Your ignorance makes me weep for the world. All traditions come from centuries of influences from other cultures (Aztec, anyone?) And costuming, in the Roman tradition was a deliberate exaggeration of the subject of the costume. You have a hate-on for as you say ‘white people’ doing sugar skulls specifically, how is THAT not racist? Stop oppressing people with your small-minded ideas and maybe focus on the very real problem of ACTUAL racism and hate that permeates the world we live in. If you are too chickenshit to take a stand there, then by all means continue harassing people who are unfortunate enough to feel no connection to their cultural identity, and try to feel something by connecting to others. Because I don’t want to restrain YOUR freedom of expression, just to call it out for the small-minded thinking it is.

DL

(sorry for the cursing, this really made me intellectually mad)