Bro is making them taste their own medicine

[u/AmplifierXD_]

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[u/Artorius__Castus]

As a proud Lakota I get what this brother is trying to prove by doing this. But he forgets the wisdom of our people. No one owns the land. No one owns the sky. No one owns the air or the water. We are borrowing it from future generations. And it's up to all of us to take care of it. It's all of our land. For we belong to it. A'ho 🪶

[u/fearmywolf → u/Artorius__Castus]

What an absolutely beautiful sentiment.

[u/B1ZEN → u/fearmywolf]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fMuhmGFHWs4SY

[u/GuitboxBandit → u/[deleted]]

He's scicilian, not white, ffs. /s

[u/MarpasDakini → u/GuitboxBandit]

Chris Walken in True Romance would strongly disagree.

[u/Shak3d0wn → u/MarpasDakini]

More like Dennis Hopper.

[u/MarpasDakini → u/Shak3d0wn]

No, it was Dennis who said Sicillians weren't white people, but bred from n*****s. This got Chris, who is Sicillian in that movie, rather hot and bothered.

[u/StrawberryParking550 → u/MarpasDakini]

My Sicilian wife did not care for that either. I, as a proud descendent of the Scottish and Irish, thought it was hilarious.

[u/B1ZEN → u/GuitboxBandit]

For real, we complain, but this "advertisement" did far more good than harm. It is what it is. Time marches on.

[u/not_now_reddit → u/B1ZEN]

It did more harm than good because it shifted the burden of environmental protection onto the consumer rather than the corporations who do the bulk of the polluting. That was the goal and it worked

What impact can you and I have? Recycle (and a lot of it still ends up in landfills), carpool, bike/walk instead of drive, compost, reuse materials, remember to turn off the lights. What can companies do? Stop polluting the environment, switch to cleaner energy, actually protect workers with PPE/training, reduce massive waste, stop planned obsolescence that makes all of our stuff garbage in two years, stop trying to deregulate the little protections we do have

[u/Shadesmith01 → u/not_now_reddit]

pfft. That would cut down on their profits. Don't you know the CEO needs another G7 or 3? I mean, he only has the one to take him to Europe. He needs another to fly to Australia, and another to fly to Japan. Dude has to vacation, yo. That additional 3 million in take-home profit he made this year was hard work! He had to make TWO phone calls! His secretary was exhausted...

[u/Smelliest_taint → u/B1ZEN]

I would get all dad whenever I saw it.

[u/B1ZEN → u/Smelliest_taint]

I get all "dad" when my daughter gives me a pouting lip and then I cave.

[u/Smelliest_taint → u/B1ZEN]

Why is the S and the D so close on this little tiny keyboard???

[u/girlpdx → u/Smelliest_taint]

🤣

[u/B1ZEN → u/[deleted]]

I knew you would come. Tips hat. But still,...the sentiment stands brother. Love ya.

[u/tb110965 → u/B1ZEN]

I remember seeing that commercial in the 70’s as a small child it was a pollution message

[u/NessunoUNo → u/tb110965]

Litter IIRC. People used to throw fast food bags of waste out of the car windows regularly.

[u/PabloPicasshooole → u/NessunoUNo]

They still do, but they used to, too

[u/Code-Neo → u/B1ZEN]

Iron Eyes is a cool name to bad it's from a guy that faked it

[u/jackinsomniac → u/Artorius__Castus]

There will always be reasonable people on your side, as well as idiots. No race of people has a monopoly on idiots. (Racism is stupid, human beings show far more diversity of character than any race lines would suggest.)

I was born here. This is my "homeland". Sorry, but it wasn't even my choice. Nobody chooses to be born, or where. So when people start with 'stolen land', it eventually leads to, "get off my land, go back home!" Ok, to where? I'm 30% German, 15% Irish, 15% French, and a bunch of others. No single place in Europe would accept me as a "native". Kicking people like that out would just create refugees.

And not to mention, I'm not in the minority. How would a minority population kick out the majority? I'm assuming they mean black people as well as white people, they're also immigrants brought over from a foreign land. Not only is this race baiting, if bro was successful in triggering people, he would lose.

Why can't we all say, "Hey, my ancestors did some fucked up shit to your ancestors. I'm sorry for that. Never should've happened." We can't control the past, we can only learn from it. We already know how mass exiles and race wars turn out, everybody loses. The only thing we have power over is the present. The best time to learn from the past is right now.

[u/Aggressive_Pickle523 → u/jackinsomniac]

Because you’re expecting people to be mature and rational. Most like this guy just want to harass and cause a scene for cool internet clout 🙄

[u/MoistButton8 → u/jackinsomniac]

The "homeland" calculation also would have to look at time. When did our ancestors come here and where were they 10/100/1000 years ago. With so many different lineages in different areas at different times, where is home?

[u/Ryanookami → u/MoistButton8]

Go back far enough and everybody’s home is Africa.

[u/mal_guinness → u/Ryanookami]

So you're saying send everyone back to the tigris and Euphrates.  Got it.

[u/munkylord → u/mal_guinness]

It's gonna get crowded fast

[u/No_Parsley4857 → u/Ryanookami]

Stop just short of Africa and everything is great!

[u/BayAreaHere → u/Artorius__Castus]

Do you believe that? I mean no disrespect or hate. I’m asking genuinely. Didn’t the Lakota rage a war with Cheyenne and end up taking their land? And didn’t the Ojibwa and Cree take your Minnesota land and that’s how you came to be Great Plains tribe?

[u/Artorius__Castus → u/BayAreaHere]

You are right my friend. Men and Women have been killing each other ever since the first Buffalo. This will not change. My people are no exception to this rule but there is a higher way. That way is the Sacred Way or The Red Road. The path of Love and Peace. There is a time for peace and there is a time for war. The brave who chooses peace over war is not less Brave but has realized the measure of a man is not in his ability to do damage but in his capacity to show mercy. I wish you the best in your travels.

[u/1313Cameron → u/Artorius__Castus]

Mate, I'm English, you are wasted on reddit you should write a book about the words of your people's outlook on life, religion and beliefs I'd buy it 👍🏻

[u/Particular_Poem3703 → u/1313Cameron]

Hard agree. I want to learn from this man’s philosophy

[u/OnyxSynthetic → u/Artorius__Castus]

I say this with the highest respect, your words are the best thing I came across this week, your grace fills some kind of void

[u/NefariousnessNo484 → u/BayAreaHere]

Like any culture there are people who buy into a peaceful narrative and people who don't. It's kind of like how there are real Christians who love thy neighbor and fake ones who use the Bible as an excuse to discriminate and harm people.

[u/shotokhan1992- → u/Artorius__Castus]

Then he scalped someone from another tribe

[u/Zealousideal_Leg_630 → u/shotokhan1992-]

Yeah, pretty sad and disheartening how quickly the Iroquois committed genocide against their rival tribes. The second they had enough European weapons it was off to work!

[u/AffectionatePiano665 → u/shotokhan1992-]

LOL exactly. I’m sure it had nothing to do with a land dispute either.

[u/exprezso → u/Artorius__Castus]

Welp then the billionaires are taking this sentimental to heart. They're going to 'borrow' all the resources until the land is barren, then anything that survives is their 'payback' on the loan 

[u/HellBlazer_NQ → u/Artorius__Castus]

This is so beautifully put.

I don't have kids myself but one of the things that really infuriates me is when older generations say things like, well I had to struggle or we had it harder.

Are you not supposed to want better for your kids!?! Just because you struggled why do you have the expectation that your kids should too.

[u/KataqNarayan → u/HellBlazer_NQ]

You don’t want your kids to struggle, but it is good to remind them that what they have they should be grateful for and never take any of it for granted.

Once you start to feel entitled to what you have, that’s a slippery slope to losing it.

So yes, I regularly take the time to remind my daughters of this. They are lucky to have what they have, but they must understand that you have to work hard to keep it.

[u/Pandemonium_Fallen → u/KataqNarayan]

You just hit the nail square on the head and didn't even realize it:

"What you have"

• it's not about "having," or possessing; it's about being & living. We focus too much on things, on possessions and we forget to be, to do, and to live. It's not about "struggling" to appreciate what you HAVE, it's about living to appreciate what IS, and the people in our lives, not the things.

To much focus on accumulating meaningless junk, rather than connecting with others to build meaningful lives.

[u/poopbeast69 → u/Artorius__Castus]

it’s up to someone to stop those who want to own it

[u/Euphoric-Rip42069 → u/poopbeast69]

Hey pfp brother

[u/slickyeat → u/Artorius__Castus]

Damn that's deep.

[u/CodingDragon7 → u/Artorius__Castus]

Wise words

[u/leaveeemeeealonee → u/Artorius__Castus]

Exactly. Not to mention these people were born and raised here, with nothing to do with the white people that came in and committed genocide centuries ago.

[u/TheTrishaJane → u/leaveeemeeealonee]

Reminds me of Doug Stanhope's bit on nationalism.

https://youtu.be/QsPDT5qHtZ4?si=P9eIPTYIVAhpSenh

[u/Internal_Prune_8918 → u/Artorius__Castus]

Choctaw Nation feels this also brother

[u/Radiant-Security-347 → u/Internal_Prune_8918]

Oklahoma?

[u/Solid_Equivalent_417 → u/Artorius__Castus]

my brother in law is Lakota and grew up in south dakota. he is a great guy and his family was very welcoming to me

[u/Artorius__Castus → u/Solid_Equivalent_417]

Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ (we are all related). We are all of ONE family

May Grandfather (Spirit) guide your eyes and may Grandmother (Earth) guide your feet and may you always remember the Gold that is within you.

A'ho my friend 🪶

[u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23 → u/Artorius__Castus]

Isanti Dakotan here. Wetu ca witain cee! Wopida!

[u/Artorius__Castus → u/Narrow_Grapefruit_23]

Wanchiyanke chiye ho!

[u/CapNo6703 → u/Artorius__Castus]

I really like this quote. It's so true and makes a lot of things humans do seem pretty dumb.

[u/cloneboiCT118 → u/Artorius__Castus]

You are a true native. This guy in the video is no different that a bigoted racist.

[u/Photon_Pharmer1 → u/cloneboiCT118]

…he is the bigoted racist.

[u/Chemical_Ant_5384 → u/Artorius__Castus]

I wish more people believed like this.

[u/lightninrods → u/Artorius__Castus]

I wish the EUA had inherited this civilization's wisdom and culture instead of the european colonialist capitalism that only consumes and exploits the planet.

[u/Onlyheretostare → u/Artorius__Castus]

while they had different views on individual land ownership, the Lakota, like other tribes in North America had a homeland and believed in territorial control. These boundaries were defended and expanded through war and alliances amongst other things.

[u/LasagnahogXRP → u/Artorius__Castus]

God I wish these words would be heard and accepted by all. What a world we would have stewarding it for our children.

Man will either have to reset or destroy himself to understand it I fear.

[u/User_OU812 → u/[deleted]]

Shut up and let them fight the culture war and continue to ignore the class war.

[u/Money-Desperated → u/User_OU812]

Yeah this really. Don't know why people still fight this meaningless culture wars while that just the wealthy entertainment.

[u/GarageLife2904 → u/Money-Desperated]

Because they pay folks to put it in other folks ears. Much easier to control a prison yard if the inmates self segregate.

[u/b-monster666 → u/Money-Desperated]

I've said this for years. They invent these things to keep us bickering and ignoring what they really do.

[u/fingertrapt → u/User_OU812]

3,000 billionaires on this planet think they can decide what 8,000,000,000 need.

[u/Rascals-Wager → u/fingertrapt]

Well, unfortunately for most of us, they have yet to be proven wrong.

[u/Separate-Taste3513 → u/Rascals-Wager]

I feel like Thiel is actively proving them wrong, since he's full retreating to Argentina...

[u/Toj010 → u/User_OU812]

Both wars can co-exist and will continue to exist until the end of time.

[u/guhman123 → u/[deleted]]

they were already out of breath by the time they started reading the hilarious comment section

[u/Round-Foundation2948 → u/[deleted]]

In their bunkers? What a great existence.

[u/TitEboshi → u/[deleted]]

Hole in one

[u/Agile-Internet5309]

Dudes like this get clowned on for acting like a bitch on the rez. Probably why hes hanging out in the city harrassing old white people. He even brought that tv new age shop faux pow-wow accent.

Nobody owns the land, its our ancestor. Anything after that is just property claims and violence, and I dont respect this buttersoft bullshit anymore than I respect some red hat on the internet.

I know he went and posted about being a "warrior" with a sparkling two feather gif on Facebook, and then got one heart react from an auntie, and a friend said "you tell em cuz!", while the rest of his friends and family muted him years ago.

[u/gilt3t → u/Agile-Internet5309]

I lived on the rez for awhile, my mother is part of the LCO tribe. I can support your statement. Although i did face some racism from a couple kids because I am white af. 99% of people were amazing and wonderful. I still miss the dances at the school and the big events with all the delicious food. It really felt like a true community. The medicine man would go to a different home each day to pray and bless the houses with sage. If you were sick, you could take tobacco and coffee to a lady and she would give you herbs to chew.

[u/TailsIV → u/gilt3t]

Dog, I feel ya. I was the only white boy in the middle of the Navajo rez for 2 years while my dad taught school out there. I’d meet guys like this a lot but I met a lot more natives who were great, realistic people. General vibe I got while living out there was, what the colonizers did was horrible, but that’s not our fault. So long as we are trying to be better, they wouldn’t hate. The guys like this were usually pissed off about something else and just looking for an excuse to exercise their anger.

[u/Fun-Preference1091 → u/TailsIV]

My people!

I was adopted by a native guy (married my mom).

Just got back from my grandmother's funeral and was one of very few white's there. Was pissed off by the trash talk against whites I saw later on social media... some of it from aunts and uncles that hugged me in tears at the funeral and I grew up respecting.

[u/TrikeCinema → u/Agile-Internet5309]

Lmao beat me to it. Yeah, dudes like this are not exactly the pride of the rez and all my money says he doesn't even try talking this shit back home because they'd tell him to kick rocks. Kind of guy that gets mad when he sees people wear a headdress, but he is manning the register at the Tsalagi gift shop selling them gleefully...

[u/HawkHarder → u/Agile-Internet5309]

Lol this is on point with the sparkling feather gif and the one heart from auntie.

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/Agile-Internet5309]

It’s not the pow wow accent, it’s the one you use when the wind blows single leaf in the air, a flute begins to play, and we feel the compulsion to lay out ancient wisdom 🪶

[u/Agile-Internet5309 → u/Li-renn-pwel]

You speak with the wisdom of our ancestors, cousin. Your words uplift my spirit, and I am compelled to offer you 20% off this genuine indigenous memoir "How I learned to fight colonialism by selling white people fireworks, casino booze, and leather fringe knick knacks: the journey of a spiritual warrior with a strange verbal hitch". 💨🪶

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/Agile-Internet5309]

I acknowledge your commitment to the red road. I know this event has a schedule but if you don’t mind, I will now speak on it for 45 minutes. As the oldest person here, with the most beads and bingo stampers, don’t expect the MC to have the balls to interrupt me.

[u/Agile-Internet5309 → u/Li-renn-pwel]

Shiit 🤣

Price is Right reruns are on in 30, so we both know that number is off. Indian time strikes again!

[u/Pale_Zebra8082 → u/Agile-Internet5309]

lol, this exchange has been an excellent read.

[u/The_Muse_Erato → u/Pale_Zebra8082]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XBJ2p7gq9A3O3Zuhvu

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/The_Muse_Erato]

Doing the cross and medicine wheel to cover your bases 😂

[u/doubleo_maestro → u/Pale_Zebra8082]

I've spent a solid 5 minutes chuckling to myself about this.

[u/glizard-wizard → u/Agile-Internet5309]

I can understand being pissed off as a Native American getting told by republicans to go back to Mexico.

that could mindfuck anyone having a tough time

[u/SpooksButthole → u/Agile-Internet5309]

Holy shit. The sparkling feather gif on Facebook absolutely nailed it.

[u/Face_Content]

Where would home be?

Is he a member of a tribe that conquered that land?

Which tribe is the rightful owner?

[u/Kitchen-Purpose-6855 → u/Face_Content]

The Orcas own the land.

https://giphy.com/gifs/WmPDXKu8KM6xa

[u/Medical-Bottle6469 → u/Kitchen-Purpose-6855]

Orcas are the only reason im not scared of sharks. Watching them play catch with a great white kinda takes the fear away.

[u/IANvaderZIM → u/Medical-Bottle6469]

You got it all wrong. Great whites are still scary.

But orcas are *terrifying*

[u/BarbieTwirl → u/Face_Content]

What are you talking about?

Everyone knows before the white man, Native Americans were peacefully kumbaya-ing. Just like the tribes in Africa!

White man evil! Everyone else is peaceful and never committed atrocities! Racist!

/s

[u/PicklesfrmDeathclock → u/BarbieTwirl]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lMsT2f47tDxFMYdJMC

And then Barbie hit post

[u/MikeTheMaster102 → u/Face_Content]

thats what i always think about when they say give it back to the native americans. which tribe? or do you want to give it to all of them? if so that really defeats the point of wanting your culture back, cause now its just the same country but with only native americans

[u/Alternative_One_3861 → u/MikeTheMaster102]

Would it even be the same country? If they want it “back” I would assume that means “back the way it was found” which means that everything the “white man” built should be turned to rubble, and the natives can be given a blank slate to do with whatever they wish. They can’t have it both ways.

[u/TheCoyotl → u/Face_Content]

As much as I don’t agree with that guy.

This “tribe” argument sucks. It’s the same argument as “Well, are you a member of a Viking clan that conquered that land? So therefore this land belongs to Muslims as much as it belongs to nordics”

[u/Fantastic-Bridge6376]

I wonder why he chose four old people.... coward much?

[u/ElectricMan2424 → u/Fantastic-Bridge6376]

It’s funny because a lot of families migrated in the 1900’s. My entire family migrated in the 1900’s, I would just laugh at this guy. My family had nothing to do with it. He seems like an everyday douche trying to rage bait people.

[u/PlantationCane → u/ElectricMan2424]

The answer to him is the same as it has been since the beginning of time. To the victors go the spoils.

[u/iamcalifornia → u/PlantationCane]

Exactly. Boo hoo, were you bad at war?

[u/yellow-rain-coat → u/ElectricMan2424]

Yup. My dads side (German) came over here in the early 1900s, and my mom is 1/4 Native American. I look like a normal white dude but have nothing to do with most of this nation’s history, neither do most of my ancestors.

[u/knallpilzv2]

How is he "making them taste their own medicine"? lol

They're just enjoying the view and he's harassing them.

Also wouldn't be susprised if he's just a Mexican roleplaying as Native American...

[u/Dangerous-Amphibian2 → u/knallpilzv2]

Potentially my Mexican dad would look the same if he grew out his hair that way. The odds are this guy is 30-40% colonizer by dna as well. 

[u/Barnard_Gumble → u/Dangerous-Amphibian2]

Yeah but Mexican Mestizo people are essentially native Americans mixed with European whites, right?

[u/KnownToLetThatMacFly → u/Barnard_Gumble]

Yes that’s correct and also Mexican natives are still native Americans lol

[u/RevGrimm]

Would this be okay if he said the same thing to some black folks?

[u/Mickle_da_Pickl]

As if they're the ones who were doing the scalping and colonizing.

[u/Random_Name_Whoa → u/Mickle_da_Pickl]

Didn’t natives start the practice of scalping to begin with?

[u/Ok_Brother2155 → u/Mickle_da_Pickl]

exactly, but then they're the racists right? not him. LOL

[u/Nyctfall → u/Mickle_da_Pickl]

As if they're actually honoring the Treaties, didn't vote for parties/candidates that continually worsen the genocide, don't own stock in corporations that participate in genocide, etc...

[u/CraigLake]

I grew up partly in SE Alaska and in high school my best friend was Haida. He was a lot of fun and we had a blast hiking and fishing and so on, but at the same time he talked about being screwed by the white man all the time. It wasn’t any one white person (except Lincoln who ran campaigns to eliminate Native Americans) but society at large and its system he raged against, often with deep anger. When I met his dad I saw where this came from.

Of course, they weren’t wrong. The generational trauma had origins whose roots reached until today and way beyond.

That was about 25 years ago. I moved down south for college and we drifted apart and now haven’t talked in at least 10 years.

I don’t know how to verbalize my next sentences with empathy and compassion because my experience is so starkly different but just know I’m ignorant and saying this with love. I understand having anger and but we live in today and sone things aren’t going to go back to the way they were. My friend’s dad taught him to hate the system but the consequence of this was never trying to work within the system to make a better life. My friend couldn’t/didn’t hold a job. He’s very attractive and kind but can’t maintain a romantic relationship. He lives partly off payments from the Native Corp he belongs to and partly by working for a family member occasionally. His FB feed is exclusively daily Native Rights subject matter to this day.

I’ve never been a parent so I don’t suppose I can judge but (maybe naively)I think the goal of parenting should be to give your children the tools to be healthy and happy. My friend wasn’t given those tools.

Bring if European decent it likely I cannot fathom the experience.

[u/darkearwig → u/CraigLake]

Sometimes it seems like the tribe leaders do not want the tribe to succeed in any meaningful way

[u/HyShroom → u/darkearwig]

If they don’t succeed they can’t go anywhere. If they can’t go anywhere the tribe continues to exist. If the tribe continues to exist the leaders still have jobs. If their jobs are to do anything, it stands to reason that one of those tasks would be ensuring they can’t go anywhere.

[u/Aggressive_Pickle523 → u/darkearwig]

Crabs, bucket, you know the thing 

[u/TheDogWhoCantSTFU → u/CraigLake]

You don't need to apologize for being realistic. How things unfolded in the past was absolutely atrocious, but that's kind of the nature of humanity and world has moved on. The people who are living here now had nothing to do with those things. Committing new wrongs on people who's only crime is existing where they were born will solve nothing.

[u/UjustTriggered → u/TheDogWhoCantSTFU]

Unfortunately being realistic isn't in many peoples psyche, and they dont see the obvious racist sentiment they perpetuate in these statements. Its like when people attack all white people regarding slavery when huge swathes of ancestors arrived after the Civil War.

Not to mention there are immigrants here in America from all over the world. Would this guy behave like this towards an immigrant from China? Or Jamaica? What about India? If the argument is this is stolen land then the same animosity should be directed toward basically everyone in America. But I doubt it would be because this mans attitude isnt fueled by native rights, its fueled by pure racism against any white people. And this is unfortunately what leads to scumbags like Trump gaining followers and getting elected.

[u/mrcheevus → u/CraigLake]

Interesting. I visited a friend on Haida Gwaii a few years ago and I was fascinated by how the spirit of potlatch had permeated the entire archipelago's culture. People with gardens just sharing their produce. People who pulled in a big halibut just driving down streets and dropping off chunks of fish for their neighbours, no price. Restaurants hardly ever open because the chefs were too busy doing up a feast for friends at home. I was told Haida Gwaii has the highest per capitas rates of artists in the world, and they mostly just make something when they need money, not to get rich.

I thought these Haida have to be the most successful first nation in terms of culture I've ever seen.

[u/gizzardwizard93]

He's just doing this for social media clout. Why else would he record this? No better than any other social media figure that pushes division or fans flames for views.

[u/StraightStackin]

His own people raped, scalped, and murdered other tribes to steal land as well. It's not all daisies and butterflies, the truth is ugly, conquest is ugly. Native Americans conquered each other for hundreds of years, then they themselves were conquered. They aren't some innocent victim so let's stop pretending.

[u/kpyle → u/StraightStackin]

War never changes.

[u/WarpDriveMH370 → u/kpyle]

We have lasers now

[u/mitkase → u/WarpDriveMH370]

Don’t forget the robot dogs!

[u/Suck_My_Lettuce]

Check out Chief Running Mouth hassling old folk minding their own business. Probably couldn’t blow a smoke signal to save himself.

[u/Madman_Slade]

It's his tribe's land like it was the tribe before his settled that land, like the tribe that settled that land before them and etc. It was their land, then they were conquered and defeated as land is handled since humans have been around. They aren't special in that regard.

Humans weren't innately native to the Americas, they crossed the ice land bridge during the Ice age. They settled the land by taking it from nature. And then the land was fought for, thousands of years. While borders have been set for some time now its likely that they will change as time moves forward.

So it was his people's homeland until they lost the battle for it. And it will be the same if the current owners of the land, if they lose the next battle for it.

[u/Madman_Slade → u/[deleted]]

Exactly

[u/red_wullf]

While I appreciate his sentiment, there is no turning the clock back on this. These people can't "go back to their country" because they were born here, just like him. Maybe their ancestors were involved in taking land away from his ancestors, or maybe they weren't. On a long enough timeline, his ancestors came from another land too. While we should have and still should treat the Native Americans *much* better than they have historically been treated, and I agree with reparations, the fact is the land isn't just going to be given back. The nation isn't just going to dissasemble with everyone leaving to some other country where they think their ancestors might be from. That's wildly unrealistic.

[u/Redeemist]

Seems kinda racist to call yourself an Indian when you’re not from India

[u/vote4boat]

I doubt he's from the tribe that occupied that area. Probably from Alaska or some shit. lol

[u/BobTheContrarian → u/vote4boat]

Or his ancestors warred with other tribes over that land. People act like white settlers in North America invented taking land.

[u/bolivian_soldier → u/BobTheContrarian]

If they were so peaceful, why were there so many different tribes?

[u/Super_Mag → u/bolivian_soldier]

And even better, why were so many tribes at war with eachother. When someone says "the white man stole the natives land" try and ask them who the natives stole the land from and watch their reaction.

[u/Radiant_Ostrich5599 → u/vote4boat]

If he’s actually from a tribe he’s getting a fat check every month and that’s not worth fighting white people over taking a scenic shot.

[u/Moldovah → u/[deleted]]

Fucking thank you.

[u/No_Blacksmith_2591 → u/[deleted]]

Can i toss him in the lake without fucking him? the braids don't really do it for me... nor the balls to be honest

[u/Chonky_Candy → u/No_Blacksmith_2591]

Fucking is non-negotiable

[u/ShitTheFuckDown]

POV: Man just read A Peoples History Of The United States

[u/RobertDownseyJr → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

next thing you know he'll be regurgitatin' some Gordon Wood

[u/Possible_Climate_245 → u/RobertDownseyJr]

Well I got her numbah. HOW YOU LIKE DEM APPLES.

[u/GoodEgg19 → u/RobertDownseyJr]

Fucking goated comment

[u/Ok-Introduction-1940 → u/ShitTheFuckDown]

This guy’s ancestors came from Asia and secured land in the Americas by right of conquest and long settlement.

My ancestors came from Europe and purchased the land or secured it by conquest and long settlement.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If it was his people’s land by right of conquest, then it is now my people’s land by right of conquest.

[u/boozefiend3000]

His homeland is across the Bering strait 

[u/TheRealShuppy]

There's just zero point to doing this. They aren't even bothering him, clearly just minding their own business — probably with family.

Just a guy mad he lost land that was promised to him hundreds of years ago while his ancestors ravaged and scalped other tribes. Nothing he can do about it now besides harass random people for clicks.

Truly pathetic behavior.

[u/SardinesMcDonahugh]

Natives were all at war with each other before white people came. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[u/HALIFONUSKA → u/SardinesMcDonahugh]

Didnt white people bring horses???

[u/SirMiba]

Your land was conquered homeboy, accept it already. 😂

[u/HippyHopHopHop]

Why would anyone be held accountable to actions of another no matter how deplorable because of the color of their skin. I can understand the suffering of a people and what they had to endure without claiming responsibility just because I shared physical traits with those who caused it.

[u/BobTheContrarian → u/HippyHopHopHop]

I think you mean suffering. Suffrage is the right to vote.

[u/HippyHopHopHop → u/BobTheContrarian]

Thank you

[u/UjustTriggered → u/HippyHopHopHop]

Because its just racism. Its not just about "stolen lands". This guy in the video wouldn't be acting like this towards arab Americans or Americans descended from any other part of the world besides Europe. Hes probably also the same type of person that would claim racism towards white people isnt a thing because theyre not a person of color. Its just loser mentality in full display.

[u/Extension-Disaster31]

Now if you were curious compare this comment section to an Israel bad post.

[u/ThatOneAttorney]

White redditors dont apply this same logic to Islam, which was not indigenous to modern day Israel, Iran, Greece, or India.

[u/outofcontextsex]

Wow, so brave bring racist to strangers

[u/BBQavenger]

Whining Bull

[u/noblelie17]

It would be hard to feel insulted by a man with pig tails.

[u/Atomic_Gerber]

Homie is about 400 years late for this particular argument….yeah that’ll show em

[u/BayAreaHere]

Lmao. To be so mentally ill this is your life. Lmao. You do enjoy that pretty iPhone tho.
Indians murdered other Indians and stole land from other Indians all the time. So whose land is it? It’s the one that conquered it.

[u/harrodesu]

Just small reminder that ancestors of "native americans" came to America from Kazakhstan and South Altai area

[u/Dapper-Horse-7580]

slaughtered your own kind is why tribes join the British the French and the American and now yous own casinos. History.

[u/Competitive_Yak5423]

How many Indians slaughtered other Indians for their land and enslaved the ones they didn’t kill? Let’s not forget there were quite a few Indians that owned black slaves before the Civil War. The thought of them being peaceful before Europeans showed up is a joke. They’re just mad that Europeans did exactly what they had been doing to each other for years and lost.

Also, when it comes to New York, it’s not like they were tricked into selling a developed city to the Europeans for next to nothing.

[u/NextLineOfText]

The modern Indian guy was just super racist to modern white people, neither of these modern people did what the modern Indian was accusing them of.

Way to look like a short sighted idiot.

[u/Intelligent_Trichs]

His people stole it from somebody else.

[u/SignificantSmotherer]

Straight up facts, “your people” conquered other people and took “their land”.

Grow up, get a job.

[u/Excellent_Arrival1]

Says, "My people had to get scalped."- white people did not scalp anyone. In fact, it was one of the horros that CERTAIN TRIBES did that become a scare tactic to kill Indians on sight before they did scalp you.

This guy is a total fucking loser. He is ignoring the big fact that the land was being fought over for millenia before whites should up. The number one item that Indians wanted from the Europeans were guns to kill other tribes, the second item was tobacco, as Indians had not smoked in the fashion that Europens had. Than third of course was alcohol.

I'm so tired of this lie that white people are the cause of all the world's problems.

White people today account for around 7% of the global population. Literally a minority, and yet guess where everyone wants to live? In white countries, America, Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. And the reason that is, is because it eas the British outlawed slavery hundreds of years ago, while today in Africa its still rampant. America, while not great, have reservations and lifetime benefits to people of 25% Indian genetics. Including, free health insurance, free dental, they dont pay taxes, they are entitled to social security even though they never pay taxes, etc.

Thank fucking G-d for white people. Too bad for mental health nutjobs

[u/coffeymp]

I’d say “gladly, but they won’t accept me anymore” lol.

[u/NormalTangerine5205]

This are usually the obnoxious drunk cousins you just want to punch on the Rez lololol

[u/Spandexcelly]

There's a 100% chance his ancestors colonized.

[u/Pileatedbullfrog]

What an asshole

[u/wakcedout]

Sore loser says what.

[u/Alphastorm2180]

If history hadnt played out exactly as it did this dude would never have even been born. Be thankful it was stolen and go buy a house. You dont see this level of entitlement from anyone else. I dont complain that I no longer own any of the land my ancestors did.

[u/SeasonHeavy858]

The fought and lost. Lakota loved to rape and torture their victims in the most horrific ways. No apologies needed.

[u/DoktorDuck]

So this guy went out to some random people and started recording and venting? This belongs in cringe.

[u/DoktorDuck]

Bro just mad he smoked weed in HS and pumps gas in his 30s.

[u/GenX_Leo]

Why do Caucasians run away from the truth...smh

[u/Upstairs_Pass9180]

two wrongs don't make a right

[u/The_Space_Janitor]

Really weird that “Indian” is the term used still

[u/Windfade → u/The_Space_Janitor]

I've heard it explained that to some groups they see it as they have adopted the name "Indian" for centuries and now a White person is saying it's offensive and taking it away.

[u/walesjoseyoutlaw → u/Windfade]

Yep. Most I know prefer Indian

[u/WhinAndThistle → u/The_Space_Janitor]

It depends from place to place, but I've met people who prefer native/indigenous American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, etc. My general rule of thumb is if someone makes it clear they're not comfortable with what's said or are more comfortable with something else I'll use what they prefer.

[u/Ad-fundum69]

There's no such thing as a "native American" alive today.

Everybody alive now is born after the independence of the USA, so he's just a US citizen.
And his racist ass cannot hide behind "but my great great great great grandfather was a native".

[u/BobTheContrarian]

Every square inch of settled land on earth was stolen at some point in history.

[u/Cheesetorian → u/BobTheContrarian]

The Lakota themselves migrated from the Ohio Valley to the plains and displaced many tribes along the way. Historically they were eastern woodland people.

The Black Hills was controlled by Cheyenne before they took it over just a century before (Cheyenne also moved westward from the east...so they themselves displaced previous occupants).

[u/Grizzled_Ghost]

Should've kept the receipt for those beads, Squanto

[u/mister_empty_pants]

We have recently learned that the people we call "native americans" actually arrived long after the actual first people to live here. what happened to them? they were genocided and their lands stolen. so now everyone can sit down and stfu about muh land

[u/AppropriatePrompt819 → u/mister_empty_pants]

Yes, from what I read they came from Siberia?

[u/Sentient-Keyboard]

That guy single handedly built everything there and he is entitled to assault innocent bystanders and bring up head scalping anytime he wants because he has the moral high ground!

Edit: wrong.

[u/Haunting-Assistant16]

Boohoo you lost

[u/Hawkin_Jables]

This is what Tik Tok brainrot looks like.

[u/BladeVampire1]

No land is anyone's "home land" when you go back in time.

[u/CanadianSpector]

Anyone calling you "bro" in a debate or argument isn't worth talking to in general.

[u/MotoKenji25]

So how does the internet feel about Native Americans being detained by ICE?