This may be more of a rant than I prefer.
Friday I briefly mentioned gatekeeping in reference to choosing what songs to feature for a heritage month.
In fact, there have been issues with groups that could easily have common interests being divided for feelings of superiority or fear or resentment or something that doesn't help.
Going back further, I wrote back in January about attacks on the authenticity of various Native Americans, and that I'd heard they were coming for Buffy Sainte-Marie next:
https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2023/01/native-american-identity-for-white.html
They did it.
There are a few things that make this more of a rant than a cogent explanation of the problems.
The first is probably my disgust with how many people are just automatically accepting it.
Recently I wrote about how the internet -- including many Canadians -- rode to the defense of Martin Short when someone called him annoying.
https://preparedspork.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-coming-back.html
I thought this would be the same, because so many people love Buffy.
So many people turned against her so quickly.
Sometimes personal jealousy appears to have been a factor, like people who lost awards to her, because obviously it should have been theirs.
Other times I don't know the motive, though I hope they notice that they are being joined by terrible people also crowing about "hoaxes" relating to boarding schools and missing women.
Here is one of the other things that make me angrier. One poster pointed out that they started the attacks on Sacheen Littlefeather close to the start of Native American Heritage month too. I had not thought of that at the time.
Yeah, that doesn't seem like an accident.
Of course, as far as Jacqueline Keeler is concerned (she was not acting alone this time), you don't have to wait for any specific month; her attacks on Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone were back in April.
https://twitter.com/mariahgladstone/status/1658887551212716034
I can't help but think it might be more beneficial to look into someone like Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, who holds current political power and is not necessarily using it well.
People definitely have questions about Lakota Man, who seems like he might be trying to be the Native Shaun King.
But no, these attacks have been on a dead woman, a retired woman, and a young actress at an exciting time in her career.
Certainly, there may be times when there are questions. Buffy Sainte-Marie may have been lied to about her heritage, but I do not believe she lied.
https://twitter.com/BuffySteMarie/status/1717609253199127019
The irritating things is that so many times they have said that it is not whom you claim, but who claims you, and that DNA is not the point, but now there are all the calls for DNA tests. In fact Buffy has been claimed by the Piapot and has deep ties to them, so shouldn't that settle it?
Why be consistent when you can be spiteful instead?
Reading about this, I discovered a new term: paper genocide. It refers to the destruction of documents and records to erase history and culture.
There are issues with tracking down who was stolen and who was adopted and why those words may both belong to the same person.
There is a lot of good that could be done in trying to restore family connections that were lost over time, in both Canada and the United States.
There could be a lot of healing to be done, but I can't see that Keeler has any interest than that.
Instead she attacks women of color -- even though she is one -- and she goes to estranged relatives and lies to them. Even that she questions the abuse of survivor, taking the perpetrator's word for it, without doing anything to mitigate or help or care...
I don't expect anything good from her.
I was surprised and disgusted that so many people accepted it, but working with the CBC --even with a sleazier side of it -- seemed to help.
At least they got their highest ratings ever.
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