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Video of white women in NM mocking Native drummer--posted at William Lindsay's blog (Original Post)
bobbieinok
Feb 2019
OP
There's a lot going on in that video. Do you have any thoughts about what they were saying?
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2019
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)1. Here's a news article about it.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/cameraman-confronts-women-on-plaza-after-encounter-with-native-performer/article_ac4e8806-ad25-5d01-85c0-6f9f9a666ea0.html
Sounds about white.
John SwiftBird, a 39-year-old Oglala Lakota man originally from Pine Ridge, S.D., says he is no stranger to racism.
But SwiftBird, who plays a drum and sings on the Plaza a few days a week, hadnt encountered that kind of behavior during his two years in the Santa Fe area until Monday, when he said a group of women approached and started bouncing up and down, making noise and stuff, as he performed Lakota songs.
SwiftBird said he interpreted their actions as racist.
A video of the incident captured by an onlooker and circulated on social media has outraged locals who see the encounter in the same vein as a viral Washington, D.C., encounter this month, in which a group of boys in Make America Great Again hats appeared to mock a Native American man drumming and singing during an Indigenous Peoples March.
But SwiftBird, who plays a drum and sings on the Plaza a few days a week, hadnt encountered that kind of behavior during his two years in the Santa Fe area until Monday, when he said a group of women approached and started bouncing up and down, making noise and stuff, as he performed Lakota songs.
SwiftBird said he interpreted their actions as racist.
A video of the incident captured by an onlooker and circulated on social media has outraged locals who see the encounter in the same vein as a viral Washington, D.C., encounter this month, in which a group of boys in Make America Great Again hats appeared to mock a Native American man drumming and singing during an Indigenous Peoples March.
Sounds about white.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2. Thanks for link
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)3. There's probably more to the story
Have you seen the entire video?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)4. There's a lot going on in that video. Do you have any thoughts about what they were saying?
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)5. We don't know. But until we do, we can't jump to conclusions
That wouldn't be fair to rush to judgement.
JHan
(10,173 posts)6. truly one of the greatest gifs
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)7. Were they wearing uniforms?
All four were wearing black dresses and white socks and sneakers
Takket
(21,560 posts)8. ug................
i just honestly can't even with this................
They practically made that smirking MAGA kid into a hero when he should have been expelled along with his cohorts in disgrace. I can't even stomach the thought of these women getting the same treatment.........
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)9. How can you see they are white women?
Sorry, not seeing that.