November 08, 2017
Indians can't Dress up as Indians for Halloween
Dana Mathewson
From Urgent Agenda:
AND THE MADNESS CONTINUES –
FROM COLLEGE FIX:
Put this one in your peace pipe and smoke it — a Native American faculty member at the University of New Mexico has been condemned for wearing a headdress on Halloween. She reportedly wore it to a pumpkin carving contest at the school. "Just because you’re Native American, does not give you a free pass to rock a headdress or a tomahawk,†Joaquina Castillo, co-president of the KIVA Club, a Native American group on campus, told KRQEnews. "She was actually being awarded for most authentic costume, which is just an even more big slap in the face,†Castillo said. KIVA Club members told the news outlet they found the costume racist and an example of cultural appropriation, arguing that the faculty member who wore it is part of the Navajo Nation and headdresses are not part of that tribe. Hmm. She mentioned that being Native American doesn't give you a "free pass" to wear certain things. Question: Who gives out the free passes? How does one get that privilege? I'd love to hear the answers.
Put this one in your peace pipe and smoke it — a Native American faculty member at the University of New Mexico has been condemned for wearing a headdress on Halloween. She reportedly wore it to a pumpkin carving contest at the school. "Just because you’re Native American, does not give you a free pass to rock a headdress or a tomahawk,†Joaquina Castillo, co-president of the KIVA Club, a Native American group on campus, told KRQEnews. "She was actually being awarded for most authentic costume, which is just an even more big slap in the face,†Castillo said. KIVA Club members told the news outlet they found the costume racist and an example of cultural appropriation, arguing that the faculty member who wore it is part of the Navajo Nation and headdresses are not part of that tribe. Hmm. She mentioned that being Native American doesn't give you a "free pass" to wear certain things. Question: Who gives out the free passes? How does one get that privilege? I'd love to hear the answers.
Guys -- and gal -- I'm wondering if we couldn't come up with our own
Onion-style riff on this? In fact, I wonder if The Onion has already
done so?
Alright, somebody else's turn now.
It would
probably be something like, here I am at a Halloween party wearing a
kilt, and somebody zings me because my "people" (the ones I know about,
anyhow) came from Lowland Scotland (at least I think they did), and it
was the Highlanders who developed kilts.
Yeah, I know it's not
common knowledge and therefore not as "edgy." Plus, I'd have to be
drinking something like Highland Park Scotch, distilled in the Orkney
Islands, rather than a Lowland Scotch (can't think of one at the moment
-- Johnnie Walker, maybe?).
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The libtards beat her to the Peace Pipe and smoked something stronger than tobacco, methinks!
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