"you're not good enough. You're not worth playing yourselves. We're going to hire a non-Indian to make you guys look good."

Things that are changing: My hair, my viewpoints, my reactions to the outside world, my perception of myself.

Things that are not: My ethnicity, my love for my people, my tolerance for ignorance, especially in that regard.

Things that I am: Brown. Musical. Peaceful, Vulnerable. Quiet. Open-minded. Young at heart. Sometimes hypomanic.

Things I am not: Willing to suffer fools

I am still learning. I still fuck up sometimes. Please correct me when I do.

6 - Jan - 2012, about 4 months ago

notyourkinddear:

“Well, it’s very controversial, cause [Taylor Lautner] isn’t native. And there’s speculation of a couple of other “native” actors w ho aren’t native. And for me, when it comes to the demographic of native actors and filmmakers, there’s a very small percentage. And when you take a movie that has a worldwide success and you’re not hiring native talent, you’re really pointing fingers at them saying “you’re not good enough. You’re not worth playing yourselves. We’re going to hire a non-Indian to make you guys look good.” And I don’t believe that they’re taking any of the steps that I’ve been struggling and striving to do in the past 15 years. It kinda makes me feel that Hollywood has no intention to change when it comes to changing that perspective and demographic of minorities in film and televisio n.”

I am confused tho… I mean, I agree with this. Except that everything I’ve ever seen, Lautner IDs as mixed Odawa/Potawatomi & white… so what is up with this whole “he isn’t Native” shit? Is this because he isn’t full-blood? Because that is seriously fucked up, especially since I know very few truly full-blood Natives anymore.

Yeah. He definitely IDs with his Native heritage from what I’ve seen as well, so… yeah. Color me kinda lost, too.

(Source: moderndayndnprincess)

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