wundy:

As a white-passing Native, it’s been my experience that I am enormously privileged even within the Native community: when someone comes to me and denies my identity, tries to make me invisible, I know that fellow Natives will be there to back my pale ass up and tell off the assholes. I can trust that that will happen, because I am light-skinned.

As Black Natives have told us again and again, when people try to deny them their identity, how many of us are ready to stand up and have their backs, like they’ve had ours? Not enough, if any at all. Where are all our words and convictions about identity and community then? They only apply when we feel like it, huh?

Many of us are ready to defend pale natives, but then turn around and spout this anti-black bullshit (and I doubt that this anon is probably a Native, and very likely a pale Native themselves). How can you talk about how people don’t have a right to police your identity, and then turn around and POLICE OTHER PEOPLE’S IDENTITIES?

And to be disgusting enough to say that violence against them doesn’t count. THE FUCK.

Fellow pale Natives, don’t try to pretend this anything other than what it is: bigotry against blackness.