Yep that's exactly how I feel. We have to build our own culture that includes anti-racism and doesn't include any appropriation. We're not European where European American it's different. We have a unique American experience. However, that longing to connect to where we came from is natural. I don't know exactly how we're going to square it.
THIS IS AWESOME. Dude, grew up with stories and writings from our family before we came to America from Ireland in the 1890’s and I want to get in touch with that SO BAD, but like you said, it just comes off as appropriation. How can we mourn something and long for something we don’t even know? How can we long for a place that if we return to, we run the risk of ruining the culture even more through our colonization? How can we be angry at colonization when we HID IN IT? It’s so frustrating
I think there's a lot of people in my family that are experiencing this pain without even realizing it. My mom's family is primarily Irish or Italian, two groups that were initially not considered white but have since been fully assimilated. Despite their best efforts to connect with those cultures and histories, there's no way back without dismantling the concept of race. No amount of family tracing, DNA tests, or bagpipes are going to pull any of them out of a caste system that can only recognize their whiteness.
They're completely incapable of even considering that possibility, largely because of the comforts being white has afforded them.
Yep that's exactly how I feel. We have to build our own culture that includes anti-racism and doesn't include any appropriation. We're not European where European American it's different. We have a unique American experience. However, that longing to connect to where we came from is natural. I don't know exactly how we're going to square it.
THIS IS AWESOME. Dude, grew up with stories and writings from our family before we came to America from Ireland in the 1890’s and I want to get in touch with that SO BAD, but like you said, it just comes off as appropriation. How can we mourn something and long for something we don’t even know? How can we long for a place that if we return to, we run the risk of ruining the culture even more through our colonization? How can we be angry at colonization when we HID IN IT? It’s so frustrating
Thank you very much. You have it so right. It's, "This is why we can't have nice things." without the laugh track.
I think there's a lot of people in my family that are experiencing this pain without even realizing it. My mom's family is primarily Irish or Italian, two groups that were initially not considered white but have since been fully assimilated. Despite their best efforts to connect with those cultures and histories, there's no way back without dismantling the concept of race. No amount of family tracing, DNA tests, or bagpipes are going to pull any of them out of a caste system that can only recognize their whiteness.
They're completely incapable of even considering that possibility, largely because of the comforts being white has afforded them.