I don’t think they get it.
Gun-toting granny of Melbourne, Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down… And shot off their testicles.
“The old lady spent a week hunting those men down and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way,” said police investigator Evan Delp.
Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant’s desk and told him as calm as could be: “Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.”
Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.
The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas’ testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. “The one guy, Thomas, didn’t lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won’t be using it the way he used to,” Detective Delp told reporters. “Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they’re just happy to be alive after what they’ve been through.”
The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. “When I saw the look on my Debbie’s face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself ‘cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,”’ recalled the retired library worker. ” And I wasn’t scared of them, either - because I’ve got me a gun and I’ve been shooting’ all my life. And I wasn’t dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.”
So, using a police artist’s sketch of the suspects and Debbie’s description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighbourhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.
“I knew it was them the minute I saw ‘em, but I shot a picture of ‘em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,” the oldster recalled…
“So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot ‘em right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt ‘em most, you know. Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.”
Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny.. “What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,” Det. Delp said, “especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.”
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The Multnomah people, who’s land Portland currently sits on, practiced forehead flattening. This process involved restraining an infant’s head between two boards while the skull was still pliable. This was considered a mark of beauty.
Painting of Tlingit warriors advancing on Russian invaders at the 1802 Battle of Sitka. This battle ended with a decisive victory for the Tlingit and the sacking and burning of the Russian fort.
The Tlingit were known for armor made from metal and wood that was very colorful as well as terrifying to their enemies.
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The fourth track from Panopticon’s “Kentucky” 2xLP, available for preorder on Tuesday, May 29th, from Pagan Flames and Handmade Birds.
You’re not actually making a point and instead accusing someone you don’t know of not “listening” to people of color. This is just like the argument I had with this shithead who accused me of being a “homophobe” because they happened to be queer and I disagreed with them. Somehow being queer too had no effect on that one. Strangely enough, I was having a conversation with a person of color when I saw this. Part of that involved them speaking to me, me listening to them and vice versa.
This shitty and inaccurate flyer has been around for a while. I have spoken to actual people of color about this subject and none of them-when speaking of cultural appropriation have ever mentioned haircuts as part of the problem. Some of them, rather than laughing at it-have in fact been rather offended by it and had felt that it had trivialized their struggles.
I have never heard this argument ever being made by someone other than a white person.
And yes, this culture would consider me white. However you obviously didn’t see any pictures of me, as you would have noticed that I do not have dreads. Beyond that, just because I am does not mean what I said has no value just because I do not have a larger number of melanin-carrying cells in my skin.
If you do feel that this is totally wrong and needs to be shared, why not make your flyer that actually explains your opinion and uses accurate info rather than some crap made up off the top of your head like the people who made that flyer seem to have.
When I first encountered this flyer at a punk house back in Louisville years ago, my friends and mine’s first reaction was to laugh our asses of and periodically pull the flyer out of my zine collection when we needed something to make fun of. Unfortunately this thing seems to be taken seriously so I figured I would use what little I know to dispel it.
Cultural appropriation is unfortunately very prevalent among white folks and these people do those who actually are trying to stop it and educate folks about its effects a great disservice by trivializing the issue by making it sound ridiculous.
Firstly, just looking at your pictures I’m assuming that you’re white. If you’re not, you’re at least white passing. I’m also white, so I won’t go in depth because that’s not my place.
All I know is, I have this PDF downloaded because I’ve seen various blogs run by actual people of color post it. They have said how important it is because racism is something that actively effects their lives. To many white people these may just be hairstyles, but to a bunch of white hipster girls, war bonnets are just hats.
I’ve wanted dreadlocks for years, that’s why I started growing out my hair. Then I started listening to POC and realized how many of them are really fucking offended by white people sporting dreads. Having dreads was something I’ve wanted for a long time, but my desires aren’t more important than the feelings of others. Yes, lots of cultures have used these various hairstyles. But what’s important is how those hairstyles have been depicted in our culture, especially in the US, to villify and dehumanize POC. Most people don’t know the vast and varied history of these hairstyles, you ask your average US citizen where dreads come from and they’ll say “Black people”, “Jamaica”, something to that effect. White people have a tendency to take something that they use to insult POC but make it cool when white people do it, take a look at the amount of white girls dressing “ghetto” these days.
So yeah, I don’t know your story but all I know is, if a person says your dreadlocks offend them, don’t just blow them off. Listen.
When I first encountered this flyer at a punk house back in Louisville years ago, my friends and mine’s first reaction was to laugh our asses of and periodically pull the flyer out of my zine collection when we needed something to make fun of. Unfortunately this thing seems to be taken seriously so I figured I would use what little I know to dispel it.
Cultural appropriation is unfortunately very prevalent among white folks and these people do those who actually are trying to stop it and educate folks about its effects a great disservice by trivializing the issue by making it sound ridiculous.
Anyway, on to the points they make:
Not too much wrong with the first three paragraphs, as I said, this is actually a problem that needs to be dealt with. But after that it states that your choice of haircut actually harms people of color. At this point you are supposed to show what negative effects the mohawk hairstyle has on the Kanien’gehaga or wearing dreads is having on followers of Rastafari movement. Sadly, Quo-Li Driskell and Colin Kennedy Donovan provide no answers. They go on to mention that these are violent attacks on people of color. Again, a statement with nothing to back it up.
This is followed by a question-and-answer section where the authors intend to answer all the questions you have about how exactly you are supposed to flagellate yourself. While when actually referring to the appropriation and mocking of peoples’ traditions by white people (such as new age “shamanism,” the stealing of the Sun Dance, sweat lodges and so many other things I can’t even name them all) these all make sense, as I said, when you’re using it to talk shit about a haircut, you are being ignorant at best. More likely your surrogate activity is being a professional complainer whose goal in life is to suck the life out of anyone who is actually doing some thing to bring down this system of oppression. Of course, not knowing the authors, I have no idea.
Before going on to a list of reasons, that are presented as “facts” the main section of the pamphlet concludes with a statement that your cutting off of the offending hairstyle continues the “revolution” against racism. Are you serious??? I really will let y’all sort out what changing your hair will do to stop white supremacy. If my friends cut off their dreads, will a bunch of racist cops wither and die? Will I stop hearing shitty comments from other white folks about “those people?” Maybe in the land of make believe, where I think Driskell and Donovan come from.
Now on to the reasons:
Mohawk, comes from a Narraganset word which means “cannibal”-an ethnic slur that they applied to their traditional enemies. The actual name of the easternmost tribe of the Five Nations was Kanien’gehaga, which means “People of the Place of Flint.” Many other names for other First Nations that have been traditionally used by white people to describe other groups, such as Sioux for the Lakota and Eskimo for the Inuit, have similar unsavory origins and are slowly being replaced for that reason. If the authors seriously cared about respecting indigenous people, they would probably have been smart enough to know this. I mean, its not hard to look up.
The same has been said about wearing the afro hairstyle in the past too. Both of those, of course, have origins predating any contact between Europeans and folks from Sub-Saharan Africa. Afros, by the way, were banned in many African countries as a symbol of cultural imperialism.
While referring to the hairstyle as dreadlocks has indeed come from Rastafarianism (a belief that a shitty emperor is a messiah and extremely misogynistic like all religions) the hairstyle itself has been found in a great variety of cultures all over the world, including those peopled by those who would be considered “white” nowadays (Whiteness was a creation of the slave trade, by the way). They have been worn by ascetics in India, Mexica priests, the Cossacks, many African Nations, the Maori, the ancient Spartans and by many Celtic peoples (who used lime water to clump the hair). And these are just the examples I can name off the top of my head.
The mohawk too can be found in many cultures, but not among the Kanien’gehaga historically. They would instead pluck all of the hair off of thier head except for a 4in square on the top back of their head, which could be braided or held up with grease made from bear fat. Cultures that used the mohawk include the Pawnee, the Mexica (best known for their topknot though), the cossacks and various peoples of ancient Europe, including the Scythians, Celts and some Germanic peoples. Clonycavan Man, the name given to an bog body found in Ireland from the Iron Age, sported a mohawk, held up with gel made from pine sap. The Cossacks of Russia and the Ukraine still wear the hairstyle-it is called a khokhol. Modern Euro-American use of the hairstyle dated from World War II, when some American soldiers started wearing the hairstyle to intimidate their Nazi opponents. It was later adopted by some musicians and then by folks in the punk subculture after that.
Where did they get this thing about Taxi Driver? My belief is that they found it somewhere up their ass.
Anyway, yep dumb flyer.
Angoon, Alaska
The man holding the dagger is Gusht’eiheen (Spray Behind the Dorsal Fin) of the Killerwhale House of the Dakl’aweidí Clan in Angoon. The dagger he is holding was made by a man named Kucheesh, from a meteorite that fell near Klukwan. When it’s brought out in public the words to announce its arrival are “This came to us from the sky.” The Killerwhale Hat he is wearing (made by Dick Yéilnaawú to replace the original lost in the 1882 bombardment of Angoon) as well as the dagger, are in clan hands.
The man on the left is Billy Jones (L.aangooshú, Nahóowu, Kaadeikuyáduxaakw) and his brother Billy Johnson (Aayéil, Kaakásh, Héendei) is holding the paddles in the front. Their sister Yíktusaan is on the right. These three are the children of Gusht’eiheen and their mother (not pictured) was known as Aank’awtseix.
The man is back is known as Shkuwyéil.
Identification courtesy of Harold Jacobs.
Photo Courtesy Alaska State Library
