I hear there’s some story in the papers about some local South Dakota high school sport player, whose name makes clear his immigrant origins, who posted a video referring to his Native opponents from closer to the River with profanities, including “prairie n—–s.” The racist name-caller has posted an apology online and will sit out three games while he aspires to recruitment to a collegiate league where he will likely find himself to be a minority.
Hm—maybe he will learn something from sport.
But rather than giving a racist oppressor more attention or hearing me, a member of the privileged oppressor class, opine further thereupon, let’s hear from a neighbor who experiences that racism and oppression:
We are all neighbors. Neighbors—keep that n-word at the front of your mind, and you’ll never use the other one.
3 game suspension? If I were that kids coach, superintendent, or school board member – he would never again represent our community in any sanctioned or official capacity. Never. How’s that for an “n” word response to an “n” word use kid?
That’s a good start. I’d say the rest of the season to keep that ignorant boy out of the post season as well. Is anyone having a little chat with the boy’s family?
Ms. Wild, thank you for sharing that powerful, vulnerable and courageous FB post. I admire you.
Racism for the most part, is learned from the family and once ingrained in a child’s head, it will be hard to remove.One can always hope,though.
And thus, we discuss the larger issue: Native Americans are treated as less than second-class citizens on their own lands and it is disgusting that there is not a single person in this state that wants to try to build bridges with Oceti Sakowin neighbors. It goes to prove how deep ignorance and racism runs in this state, and there is very little being done about cultural competency. *steps off soapbox, heads out for a hard jog.*
Kari is so right. We forced people from the land they lived on for YEARS before we white people arrived and provided poor resources and scant reparations. Be a neighbor, be a friend, your family has it’s issues, just like everyone’s. Be kind and give people chance and look for your (not so) hidden racism
This Poor Sportsman should not be allowed to play
I agree with condemning the use of derogatory terms to castigate someone who happens to be a Native American. And as I have repeatedly pointed out here on DFP, the same holds true for the use of derogatory language to demonize someone who happens to be an immigrant or happens to have been born an another country or in a family with a different religion.
In all of those cases, using derogatory labels such as “n. . . s,” “prairie n. . .s,” or “illegals,” among so many other unfortunate derogatory labels, simply inflicts unjustified pain on each such individual so labeled, often resulting in the hurt similar to that so eloquently described by Alethiea Wild.
Ariel – substitute the word millennia for years.
Richard, Truthfully I didn’t think spell-check had the right spelling.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/watch-classroom-erupts-when-white-teacher-argues-with-black-students-about-who-gets-to-say-the-n-word/
Just for your -perusal.
As for the student athlete, what makes people so sure his coach cared that he used that word?
White kids need to address their white privilege status when they are young and can readily have their opinions formed for them. Schools need to address the problem before this kind of stuff happens. Seriously, in the 21st century, why do we have to relive the bad old days over and over again? Nevermind, I think I know which drumpf is largely responsible and which political party won’;t hold him accountable.
i first heard the term”prairie nigger”while attending a gathering of a group of so-called “black hills keepers, about 200 hundred of them.sen. pressler & i believe sd.attorney general tellinghuison were there with a new plan to give the native american people the money that had been accumulating since the supreme court decision of 1980.after gerald clifford gave a good summation of the “bradley bill “one of the group stood up &called gerald a prairie nigger,I went up & took pressler’s mike & proceeded to tell that bunch what a fine man mr. clifford was.the youngest man to graduate from the school of mines and a man who was a one time a seminarian at the vatican.there were some loud derogatory comments the crowd 7 in come the highway patrol & out went sen pressler & the sd.attorney general.i & gerrald clifford ,alex whiteplume,melo yellowhair & several others stood against the wall as the rest of them filed out. one woman came over to us and said that we had been treated badly & unjustly,even though she didn’t agree with us.bless her. that was the last we ever heard of the senator & sd.attorney general’s plan !
The p n word was issued by David Crosby in the movie “Thunderheart.” First and only time I ever heard it.
I do recall in Frederick Manfred’s novel “Lord Grizzly”, main character Hugh Glass and other mountain men referred to themselves as n#####s, if memory serves.
Some cities are reacting to racism on the part of the federal government by passing ordinances commonly referred to as “sanctuary cities.” There are more misunderstandings and lies about what that means than clarity. Sheila Kennedy offers the latter in a brief post.
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The Roger Cornelius Memorial Marty Two Bulls cartoon:
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Interesting read from Ms Kennedy, Debbo. Gracias. She is usually a good, or at least, informative read.