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I’m Diane. I’m Alaskan, and Black.

January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 AK, Alaskan, Arctic Circle, Black, black faces, Denali National Park, Diane, Fairbanksm, images, natives

Diane,
Fairbanksm, AK.

Images of Alaska never show Black faces, but yet in Fairbanks, the state’s second largest city, the Black population is equal to that of Alaska Natives. We have been effectively erased from our own history and present day lives. I work with tourists and a day doesn’t go by when I don’t have an interaction with one or more who are startled, not in a nice way, to find Black folks here. And despite living a day trip to both the Arctic Circle and the Denali National Park – home to the highest mountain in North America – few of my people have gone to either, firmly convinced that those places are somehow only for white folks. None of this is right. None of this is fair. And all of it is worth fighting against.

The Natives are coming back home.

March 14, 2023 Lucia Casares, Michele Norris, natives, NPR, San Antonio, TX

Lucia Casares,
San Antonio, TX

I’m glad someone is doing this and Michele Norris is perfectly suited. I’ve been a long time fan of hers and NPR. Thank you.

Nobody talks about oppressed Hawaiian Natives.

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Charlotte, Hawaiian, hawaiian natives, KSt.C, natives, NC, nobody, opressed, talks

KSt.C
Charlotte, NC

Young Hispanic male, possible gang member

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 CA, gang member, gentrification, Hispanic, Jonathan Pineda, Mission District, natives, neighborhood, police, pulled over, San Francisco, stereotype, undercover, weapons, young

Jonathan Pineda,
San Francisco, CA.

I’ve been living in the Mission District all of my life, due to the gentrification going on and many natives being pushed out and tech workers moving in, police presence has increased dramatically. Also due to the gang injunction which has done nothing except give police officers an excuse to stop hispanic youth and be able to search them just for the reasonable suspicion of being a gang member. I myself have been a victim of this racial profiling three times, the most recent one was the worst. I was walking home after getting out of work and an undercover officer pulled up next to me and started asking me questions about what I was doing in the neighborhood, where was i going, and if I had any warrants. I was then proceeded to be searched to see if i had weapons and while they ran up my name to make sure I didn’t have warrants. In the end they let me go after 15 of me being stopped just for walking home.

Accurate racial history must be taught.

March 15, 2015 Accurate, Eva Murtaugh, Heathyr, Jim Crow, Klamath Falls, natives, OR, pseudo-science, racial history, slavery, taught

Heathyr,
Klamath Falls, OR.

If we really want to confront racism and eradicate it, we need to be taught an accurate history of this country’s racist practices. Racism wasn’t just the genocide of the Natives, slavery, or Jim Crow. It was redlining and eugenics and the discoveries of pseudo-science.

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