Stop reducing native issues to “they had their land taken”.
Our sisters are still murdered and missing. Our children go hungry and cold. Our elders can’t afford health care. Our parents suffer from untreated mental illness and have addictions because they self medicate.
And thats not even on the reservations. Thats just in farming communities of the Lumbee. And we are doing well by comparison to other groups.
Stop reducing us to stolen land and erasing our real struggles.
Natives have the highest suicide rates. Natives have the most unsafe school conditions. 75% of sex trafficking victims in Canada are First Nations. Natives are the most likely to be shot by police according to some studies and just as likely to be shot as black brothers and sisters according to others. Half of the homes on reservations in the US are legally deemed “uninhabitable” despite families and children living in them. Non native people can still commit crimes against us and not even be tried under native law, usually meaning not at all. Reservations flood often, they are stricken with drought. Most urban native kids carry the weight of being the only native their classmates and other townspeople will ever know. There are no college classes for us or about us. We are struggling, y'all. We have had our land, languages, and family ripped from us, it’s more than just history, it’s 500+ years of ongoing genocide.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and NDP MP Tracey Ramsey today called out Donald Trump’s racist remarks towards US democratic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib:
Context:
If I’m not mistaken Jagmeet Singh is the only party leader in Canada that has been directly calling out Donald Trump’s bigotry, not just today but over and over again since he was elected as leader.
I appreciate that Jagmeet Singh called it racism. So many public figures denouncing this have tiptoed around the word. Trump is a racist. His tweets were racist.
((Here is an official portal comic about turrets from Valve that you can read on the Thinkwithportals website, which is the same place you can read Lab Rat. Since Portal has been getting a lot of new fans lately thanks to summer sales and since there has been a renewal of interest in learning about the canon source material, I thought I should share this for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.))
I’m both
I really want Team Rocket to be in Smash
Mainstream media interviewing a trans person
drake?
josh?
where’s the body of christ?
shakespeare is not pretentious. fans of shakespeare are pretentious. shakespeare is twelve hundred dirty jokes strung together by increasingly ridiculous plotlines and increasingly homosexual characters. don’t let the archaic language fool you
THIS JUST BLEW ME AWAY
cis person: so have you had,, ,, , the surgery?
me: u bet
Tumblr recommended this post to me and I can’t even be mad cos it made me laugh
high school teachers: if you don’t show up with a dress and full makeup or a fitted tuxedo to class everyday to college your professors will execute you
college professors:
I once had a professor SLAM a thermos down on his desk and say to us “there’s more pressure in my sinuses right now than there is at the bottom of the sea. This thing’s full of NyQuil. I’m going to drink it while I teach, and when your heads are replaced by swirling rainbows, I will cancel the rest of class.” The class ended up being 17 minutes long.
Your professor was trying to fight God
FYI the name Dennis is derived from Dionysus. That is all.
this means…denny’s….
Denny’s is absolutely the domain of a god of chaos and revelry
in my doctors office there is a giraffe with the pringles guy’s head??????????? what??????
is that a cup wearing pants
yes
no one’s gonna mention this
Everybody gangster till the cup wearing pants start walking and the pringleraffe steps on buildings while Majora watches in the corner waiting for his chance to strike