Azie Dungey

I’ve talked a bit about my family, the Pamunkey tribe’s historic anti-blackness, and the enrollment case for which we have enlisted the help of Congresswoman @RepGwenMoore and a tribal lawyer, but now I want to take time to explain the whole story.

Ok, I’m out on this app✌🏾 Will be keeping it up because I think there are good things I’ve shared. I dunno if that’s the ethical choice or if I should delete the account completely. But that’s where we are now. 👋🏾

@SnapOutofIt2day @samenames05 @heatheroliver22 @ObsessedTeach I’m confused. Do their parents wear a suit all day everyday? Like kids don’t see these clothes all the time. 🙄

Today I got sent home for wearing this:

Over four years ago, Brian protested with March For Our Lives to demand action on gun violence in our schools and communities. This week, he was shot in both hands and through his neck by an AR-15 at his school in St. Louis. He jumped out of a window to save his life.

@BunneeShelton @YarliCreative Same. And I kept being mistaken for someone’s family.

@RileyThane @vickinorwood28 @franklinleonard He was also spare for 30 years of his life and this book is a memoir. What is wrong with people?

@vickinorwood28 @franklinleonard Who said spares are just second? Anyone in line of succession are spares to the King. Harry being 5th in line of succession does not mean he is no longer a spare. It just means there are other spares before him and he also have some spares after him.

“Spare” is a hell of a title for the memoir of the second son of a king.

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative As I said - historically Aboriginal is synonymous with Black there. They were called both by white people and neither was their name for themselves anymore than we came up with Negro. There is often more than one name for a group of people. That’s like basic. Have a lovely night

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative So over time, Black and Blackfulla was what they called themselves in their communities when talking about the collective. It is a major a part of their culture and has been long before they even knew we in the US existed. I hope I’ve cleared it up.

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative Part of this is because in many places they were taken from their communities, mixed up, and enslaved on sugar plantations, or pearling boats. So their tribal identities became irrelevant to the white settler state. Which is why they were just called “Blacks.”

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative I’ve spent time in Australia and have done historical research for work. I’ve also spent time in community. But I am African American (a descendant of slaves and Free People of Color) and Native (Pamunkey Tribe).

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative I’m a Black American descendent of slaves. I study American slavery, race and racism. My maternal line descends from the 1619 boat. I’m about as ADOS as they come.

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative To be clear, I don’t think Aboriginal people were ever called Colored or Negro. I’ve seen a lot of old documents and never come across that. Just Black and Aborigine, which is a defunct term.

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative To be clear, the English got to Australia in the 1780s when they lost the US. They already had 150+ of years of enslaving Africans on this continent and referring to them as Black and themselves as white. Aboriginal people were blackskinned so they also racialized them as Black.

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative Colloquially they’ve also used Blackfulla, bc “fulla” is Aussie slang (fellow). And would call white people “whitefulla”. But they’ve always been called Black as have Fijian, Papua New Guinean, Torres Strait Islanders, etc Melanesian folks. Old pic of Fiji (nearby island)

@Tasheri2 @YarliCreative It has been Black since they’ve been speaking English. Like us, when the white people got there they called them Black people, so they referred to themselves as Black people. Their race was “Black.” In Australia it is synonymous with Aboriginal. blackhistorystudies.com/resources/reso…

@YarliCreative As far as the similarities to us, well in 2017 they just got around to renaming Mt N*****, Mt Jim Crow National Park, and seven places called N***** Creek. This is in North Queensland which has a history of sugar plantation slavery. That is some Black sh*t to have to deal with.

@YarliCreative I think they confusion comes because “Black” in America is a race and ethnicity - it specifically means African Americans in much of its usage. But outside of America, people, including Indigenous Africans, are Black and call themselves Black people.

@LucasBrownEyes @gatorbol @sunoppositemoon If a woman for some reason is forced to walk ten miles when she’s big and pregnant, you can say that was an outside action that brought on labor. There are a billion ways we affect a pregnancy whether we mean to or not. And we always have.