Comments | ivy_chan: thank you ignorance

ivy_chan

thank you ignorance

Jul 11, 2009 12:02

So, yesterday at the daycare, I came in to see a lot of cheap, paper 'tents' made out of butcher paper taped to our fences. On these paper tents were pasted the names of Native American tribes. Now, we were not learning about Native American culture and the history behind them, we were not teaching any Native American ways of living, or how they ( Read more... )

prejudice, real life, racism, daycare

Comments 4

lvsinsanity July 11 2009, 16:34:52 UTC

"They're just names, they don't mean anything. It's funny."

I suppose it's funny to be told that as a way to cull out the native 'herd' it's been set in stone law that women of third descent won't be able to call their children natives, but the sons will be too.

I suppose it's funny that I don't see the point in getting my own Native status because my children(despite being forth gen.) will never be allowed citizenship, while my brother's sons and their sons will forever be granted citizenship.

*seethes* I would like to hurt that teacher now.

ivy_chan July 11 2009, 22:05:54 UTC

GUH. That angers me on both a feminist and a racist level. But, yeah, people that ignorant need a sensitivity class. You want to throw around the Navajo name? How about teaching children about the Long Walk of the Navajo?

robina1984 July 11 2009, 22:57:14 UTC

Hard to believe people that stupid actually exist. Harder to believe that with all the stuff I hear about racisim and stuff, people still BELIEVE "They're just names". No. Wrong on so many levels it wounds me.

Though, I love the fact that the kids caught on. ^_^ Perhaps there is hope.

ivy_chan July 12 2009, 02:27:22 UTC

I think children are easy to teach this to, mainly because they're so receptive, and at this age they know the meaning of right and wrong. They haven't been given the cultural conditioning the adults have. Still, the concept of 'they're not names, they are people' should be fairly easy to grasp.