NPR has literally one native on staff (0.3% of its 350 employees).pic.twitter.com/do6E7jq5uE
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NPR has literally one native on staff (0.3% of its 350 employees).pic.twitter.com/do6E7jq5uE
So. Lots white folks are telling me that this is from the Declaration of Independence. I know. I've written about the phrase in the past.
I literally posted about Declaration of Independence's "merciliness Indian Savages" today on my FB page. It's offensive and unacceptable.
Maybe instead of trying to whitesplain the phrase to me, consider sitting with the term your ancestors used to refer to my ancestors.
To white folks demanding I submit a suggestion and somehow make phrase better: No. I don't know how to fix what your people did.
It's also not my responsibility. It was your ancestors who took this continent by dehumanizing non-whites. That's on you. You go fix it.
Here's what's on me: bringing attention to the fact that a publicly-funded news network with literally ONE native employee tweeted this.
I feel some kind of way about the Fourh of July and whose independence was stolen in order to make the United States happen.
And I feel some kind of way about the fact that the people whose humanity was suspended through racist language are still underrepresented.
Teaching everyone that, yes, the people who wrote the constitution just might've been really, really, really shitty.
Ok, dumb question. Assuming they still wanted to tweet the whole document but realized that term was offensive...asterisk it out?
I can absolutely see how that would be a *much* better approach, ty.
Projection: attributing ur traits to others. The colonies picked up a little concept-democracy from those "savages"https://mobile.twitter.com/thezenhaitian/status/880533815843848194 …
I mean they also probably had slaves in the room, is it not historic?
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