These are photos from a post I wrote on August 15, 2007 called "Land O Racism." It wasn't until about May of this year that I have started moderating comments and just a few days ago I received a comment on this particular post. This, I've discovered, happens fairly frequently, and I often have to research my own blog to find where the discussions are happening. Since I posted the comment and looked for the post it was attached to, I found a few other interesting comments. Since I wasn't moderating at the time, I had no idea these discussions were going on. If you wish to read all the comments, click on the link then click onto the comments at the bottom of the link.
The first one here is extremely sexist and racist and, of course, posted with a false name because few who spew this type of shit RARELY are brave folk:
Female Indianas were submissive in that period, their culture, not ours. Plus they did not have chairs in the plains so standing or kneeling is kind of common. Plus it makes it easier to get the land and lake in the frame. Get it. Land 0 Lakes?
If you hadn't cropped the picture you would notice that she is on elevated ground. Showing respect maybe?
Don't try to find racism or you create it.
Looking
The second is from a fella who claims that the model for the picture was his great grandmother who is Cherokee and thus I am full of shit when I say such stereotyping images are racist:
The lady on the Land o' Lakes logo is my great grandmother. Before you start throwing around incorrect statements, you should get your facts straight. First of all, she is Tsalagi, or "Cherokee", not plains. Second of all, she's a full blood Native American, not mixed. She was asked to model for Land o' Lakes because she was a very beautiful lady. I have the photos of her in her dress during the Land o Lakes photo shoot to prove it. Stop trying to create racist gossip, you clearly have no idea what your're talking about.
Like your post, Nick. It is nice to know this is your grandmother and thank you for the history. It is still racist. Did the Tsalagi, Cherokee, truly dress in this manner traditionally? Are they really from the Minnesota region, or am I mistaken in thinking that it is Georgia or Florida that is the actual Land O Lakes area of the U.S.? Just because the model is Indian doesn't mean it is not racist. I'm sure the model for the "Redskins" logo was Indian. However, your grandmother is rather pale for a full-blood.
Female Indians were submissive?!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Hattie McDaniel, the first African American Woman to receive an Academy Award, was constantly stereotyped as a maid. I don't judge her for this. As she put it one time when her community would complain about the racism involved in such stereotyping of black women she stated something like; better to be paid $500 a week portraying a maid that $5 a week actually being one. However, the manner in which she was portrayed on the movie and television screen were indeed stereotypical and racist. Just like an Indian woman from a Southeast tribe is used to portray an Indian woman from a great lakes tribe and is wearing a dress which is an attempt to look like a plains tribe. I mean, like the old saying goes, "We all look alike." One Indian is JUST like another. Thus, it is not racist when Umpqua uses a plains Indian head for their product when we Umpquas are from the coast and its river and wore different headresses altogether. But, since it is a plains Indian, and no doubt, modeled after a "real" Indian, it is thus not racist. I mean, who in their RIGHT MIND would use modern portrayals of Indians to sell products. I mean the racist Black Sambos and Frito Bandito were removed because they were racist. No doubt, they were modeled after people of those actual races. But, just like usual, it is OK to do this to Indians, and many Indians will approve of it. This is not unusual either. It is still racist. It is still sexist. It is still bullshit and dehumanizing.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"Land O Racism" Revisited
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