{"id":19366,"date":"2013-11-23T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-white-man-and-an-elderly-native-man-became\/"},"modified":"2013-11-23T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T17:11:25","slug":"a-white-man-and-an-elderly-native-man-became","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-white-man-and-an-elderly-native-man-became\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: \u201cWhat do you think about Indian mascots?\u201d The Native elder responded, \u201cHere\u2019s what you\u2019ve got to understand. When you look at black people, you see ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the hangings and the chains. When you look at Jews, you see ghosts of all those bodies piled up in death camps. And those ghosts keep you trying to do the right thing. \u201cBut when you look at us you don\u2019t see the ghosts of the little babies with their heads smashed in by rifle butts at the Big Hole, or the old folks dying by the side of the trail on the way to Oklahoma while their families cried and tried to make them comfortable, or the dead mothers at Wounded Knee or the little kids at Sand Creek who were shot for target practice. You don\u2019t see any ghosts at all. \u201cInstead you see casinos and drunks and junk cars and shacks. \u201cWell, we see those ghosts. And they make our hearts sad and they hurt our little children. And when we try to say something, you tell us, \u2018Get over it. This is America. Look at the American dream.\u2019 But as long as you\u2019re calling us Redskins and doing tomahawk chops, we can\u2019t look at the American dream, because those things remind us that we are not real human beings to you. And when people aren\u2019t humans, you can turn them into slaves or kill six million of them or shoot them down with Hotchkiss guns and throw them into mass graves at Wounded Knee. \u201cNo, we\u2019re not looking at the American dream. And why should we? We still haven\u2019t woken up from the American nightmare.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On mascots & the Red Road: – Gathering Tribes | Facebook<\/a> (via aboriginalnewswire<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Right in the \u2018Oh God, we\u2019re all shits.\u2019<\/p>\n

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A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: \u201cWhat do you think about Indian mascots?\u201d The Native elder responded, \u201cHere\u2019s what you\u2019ve got to understand. When you look at black people, you see ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-52m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}