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Journey to the ancestral “homeland” constitutes a rite of passage for many of my second-generation Asian American peers.
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For me, the urge to travel to this “home”land flickers weakly at best, stifled by the fact that it would be little more than tourism with all the baggages of my Western and American-born privileges. In quest of homeland, I would find myself in a position which contradicts the journey in the first place: I would be surrounded by strangers in a time and space where we meet but never touch. Can I feel home in a home that isn’t and never was mine? What connection am I expected to have with these strangers I may have, in another life time, loved or hated or fucked or killed? What connection do I have with these strangers who I still love, hate, fuck, and kill by virtue of my position?
Strangers that I care deeply for, yes, but strangers still.
I have been grappling with similar ideas since I landed in Cambodia. Early on, I understood my privilege, and I’m uneasy with it: many Khmers, including members of my family, barely expect to visit bordering countries in their lifetimes, let alone the United States.
I thought that I was here to understand my relationship to Cambodia as a Khmer American. It’s an ethereal question. I feel an inexorable bond to this country, to the way foreign interests shape its politics, to the way money flows in and out and trickles down in a slow, thin stream to the general population after filtering through politicians’ pockets. The reason I care is as simple as the fact that people I love, people I share blood and ancestors and history with, live here. …(more)
![Click photo to read incredibly upsetting story about destruction of aboriginal petroglyphs. The image led me to fear that climbers were suspected of destroying the rock. Thankfully, there’s nothing in the story that says this is the case. The photo was pulled from the climbing website Topout.
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Aboriginal Petroglyphs Destroyed by Vandals Armed with Acid and a Drill
“To my absolute horror, I could see what kind of damage had been done…I just couldn’t believe it.”
“The vandals used a truck to get to the rock and suspects they used a power washer to remove the lichen covering the symbols before spraying acid on the paintings and drilling away the carvings with a rock bore or hammer drill.
“We have been violated, future generations have been robbed and the world has been deprived of the ancient knowledge contained within these artifacts,” Knowlton wrote in his report. “This urgent matter must follow a formal plan of action at all levels.””
Aboriginal Petroglyphs Destroyed By Vandals Armed With Acid and a Drill - ICTMN.com
I can’t even think of obscenities strong enough to convey how disgusted and horrified I am. I don’t have the words.
Who the fuck does something like this? WHO THE FUCK DOES THIS THAT DELIBERATELY?
What the fuck goes wrong in a person’s head and/or heart, such that they are so opposed to the notion of markers of cultural history that they will take the time and effort to specifically go out of their way to destroy it? Does not compute. Does not compute at all.
This has 66 notes.
A gifset of a woman cutting up some shoddily constructed mass-market books has over 7000, with graphic and horrible death threats.
Let that sink in, tumblr.
No words.
AT this point I am not even sorry. This world is going to shit and will fall to dust because we deserve it.
PETROGLYPHS
That is thousands of years of tradition of connection of culture , CONNECTED TO THE PLANET
TO THESE PEOPLE
and instead of thankingw hatever heavenly earthly being you know that we are even allowed access to the wonders of this creation?
LETS ACID SPRAY IT!!!
I hope one of em falls in said tank or drops it directly on their genitalia and dies.
I would like it if a case of festering oozing pustules covered the vandals bodies perhaps combined with an intense itching situation.
ALSO
“Knowlton [Piikani First Nation] pointed out in his report that this is just the latest in a string of vandalized pictogram and petroglyph sites in Alberta and thinks someone is out to destroy evidence that could prove the Blackfoot First Nations had a written language before European migration.
“I suspect the link to this destruction is to nullify my long held claim that the Blackfoot had a written language before missionaries arrived, which could force archeologists to rewrite history,” Knowlton wrote in his report.
Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/18/aboriginal-petroglyphs-destroyed-by-vandals-armed-with-acid-and-a-drill-134572 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/18/aboriginal-petroglyphs-destroyed-by-vandals-armed-with-acid-and-a-drill-134572#ixzz26uvBana3”
I see you racist colonialist assholes. I see you.
…………..
I quit.
I just fucking quit.
Like You can’t leave ANYTHING ?
IS your self/life culture that fucking depraved that folks can’t have language .
I just….
The anti-indigenous racism in this country is fucking appalling.
Like, it’s not enough that we’re openly loathed in the street, that discourses are predicated upon colonial essentialisms that excuse the violence and the complete disregard that assigns us status a something less-than-human.
Shit, no. That ain’t nearly enough. They have to destroy our histories too. They have to make a big gesture every now and then yo remind us all of just exactly where the Indian and the halfbreed stands, where they openly take a giant shit on our dignity.
White Canadians are scratching their heads wondering why someone would do this, but cousins know. Canadians, especially in the plains, fucking hate us. Because they’re racists.
In Canada, mind. The supposed beacon of liberal tolerance.
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