Facebook Deleted Accounts of Native Americans On Columbus Day For Having ‘Fake Names’

[KamaAina]

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/10/facebook-deleted-accounts-of-native-americans-on-columbus-day/

Perhaps it was nothing more than a disturbing coincidence, but this Columbus Day, Facebook decided to delete the accounts of Native Americans from the Midwest Village of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Yellow Springs became nationally known after Dave Chappelle’s Block Party toured popular spots in the comedians hometown....

One of those associated with Antioch is Shane Creepingbear. He’s the Assistant Director of Admission and Multicultural Recruitment and Enrollment Coordinator at Antioch College.

While he is easy enough to find on the Antioch website, Facebook did no investigation before deleting his account. Facebook, apparently thought his name was “made up,” as they decided Columbus Day would be a great time to deactivate the Facebook accounts of Shane and his wife Jacqui Creepingbear....

The timing of the account deactivation is particularly disturbing. Yes, it could all be a coincidence, or it could have been a targeted date by a racist who had a grudge against Shane and Jacqui, and wished to use the laziness of Facebook account verifiers as their weapon.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I'm glad I don't use facebook.

Not that I'm NA, but I suspect my name might get the same sort of treatment anyway.

[KamaAina]

2. That is your true and actual name?

Coupled with the 'Erich', I'd hazard a guess you are of Norse heritage.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Erich Sebastian Bloodaxe.

PhD, MSA, BS, BA, ADN, BSN, RN, Phleb. cert.

I'm actually a mongrel from what I've seen from relatives who've done genealogy - you name it in western europe, the uk, and scandinavia, it's probably in my genes, with a predominance of teutonic types and not so many romance ones. Family mythology also supposedly claimed a single cherokee and a blackfoot in the mix, but I've never seen any proof, and far more people claim NA heritage than ever turn out to have it, so I'm skeptical. But yeah, the name is from the Norse Blodoxsje (and I can never remember how to do the o with a slash through it on a standard American keyboard.)

I go with the German 'air-ick' pronunciation, not the Austrian 'ay-ritch' or 'air-itch'.

[PasadenaTrudy]

3. Bloodaxe

is a pretty badass name!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. I did one, count it one, day of substitute teaching at one point.

In the mouth of rude high school students, it becomes 'Mr Bloodass'.

After that day, I decided never to do any more substitute work.

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. Oh god...

I don't blame you...

[MattBaggins]

7. You laughed your bloodass off that night though didn't you