- 20 Oct 2021 16:12
#15195066
No, but in this case, it is an imposed identity. This is how racism works, by the dominant race imposing a racial identity on another group, and then using that identity as part of a system of oppression.
So, we see athletic teams taking this historically imposed identity, reinforcing the racism of these names, and simultaneously making money off it.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
wat0n wrote:How is it? Do any indigenous call themselves redskins?
No, but in this case, it is an imposed identity. This is how racism works, by the dominant race imposing a racial identity on another group, and then using that identity as part of a system of oppression.
So, we see athletic teams taking this historically imposed identity, reinforcing the racism of these names, and simultaneously making money off it.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...