Have you ever been told to “get out of our country” or anything like that? Think I’ve seen articles about racist people telling Native Americans to gtfo a long time ago, but no idea how prevalent this kind of idiocy is or if it was just ragebait, as I’m not American myself.
Yep I get told that all the time. I’m 42 and am born and raised in my town and I’ve been told by older white men who are not from here to leave here or got to a bar/casino and drink myself to death. I’ve even been told to watch my back because the president is gonna allow “Indian” killings again.
I’ve even been told to watch my back because the president is gonna allow “Indian” killings again.
European here. Why are there Americans that hate Natives? Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve never heard of natives terrorizing US, being the group of controversies, or anything else that could be used for hate. In fact, everything I’ve heard about Native Americans make me assume they’re chill and interesting to hang out with
EDIT: I forgot about racists, but outside of racism - is there anything I’m missing?
I think it is just flat out racism. As an example I have a coworker who is only 2 years older than me and he and his wife absolutely HATES Native Americans. Every opportunity he has to make sure to tell me that the whites “rightfully” took this land because my ancestors were to unruly and didn’t believe in god. And that we willingly gave them everything and now natives are mad at losing everything.
I’m white and I caught that shit almost 20 years ago because I was in an ESL program (despite English being my native tongue) because I moved to the states from Italy. Mind you I lived in USA before that and am natural born citizen, just father was stationed in Italy so I lived there for 3 years. Moved to USA in time for 2nd grade so had never been in an American school system yet. Mother is an immigrant sure but they didn’t even know that, just saw me in the “Mexican kids class” and struggling with reading and spelling so I was one of “them”. Mind you I’m talking about early elementary school, so kids just parroting and learning what their parents say at home. I can only imagine what darker skin people have to deal with from racist pricks raising racist children.
Out of curiosity, if you’re visibly non-white:
Have you ever been told to “get out of our country” or anything like that? Think I’ve seen articles about racist people telling Native Americans to gtfo a long time ago, but no idea how prevalent this kind of idiocy is or if it was just ragebait, as I’m not American myself.
Yep I get told that all the time. I’m 42 and am born and raised in my town and I’ve been told by older white men who are not from here to leave here or got to a bar/casino and drink myself to death. I’ve even been told to watch my back because the president is gonna allow “Indian” killings again.
European here. Why are there Americans that hate Natives? Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve never heard of natives terrorizing US, being the group of controversies, or anything else that could be used for hate. In fact, everything I’ve heard about Native Americans make me assume they’re chill and interesting to hang out with
EDIT: I forgot about racists, but outside of racism - is there anything I’m missing?
I think it is just flat out racism. As an example I have a coworker who is only 2 years older than me and he and his wife absolutely HATES Native Americans. Every opportunity he has to make sure to tell me that the whites “rightfully” took this land because my ancestors were to unruly and didn’t believe in god. And that we willingly gave them everything and now natives are mad at losing everything.
I’m white and I caught that shit almost 20 years ago because I was in an ESL program (despite English being my native tongue) because I moved to the states from Italy. Mind you I lived in USA before that and am natural born citizen, just father was stationed in Italy so I lived there for 3 years. Moved to USA in time for 2nd grade so had never been in an American school system yet. Mother is an immigrant sure but they didn’t even know that, just saw me in the “Mexican kids class” and struggling with reading and spelling so I was one of “them”. Mind you I’m talking about early elementary school, so kids just parroting and learning what their parents say at home. I can only imagine what darker skin people have to deal with from racist pricks raising racist children.