Today, while working at Kohl's this woman came up to me and asked if I was Native American, I said yes, she then says "Oh! I thought you guys went extinct." This is the country I live in. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a man I don't know came up to me and started screaming about how "all you damn Mexicans were stealing American's jobs" and he stormed off. I'm Native American, and I'm pretty sure we've been here longer. FML
Today, I was at work when a customer came up to me and asked where and what I used to get my tan. I'm Indian. FML
Today, I overheard my caucasian mother on the phone lamenting to a friend that her future grandchildren won’t “look American”. Any future grandchildren of hers would be half Lakota native. FML
Today, I went to a grocery store after work, exhausted. I nodded politely at a woman who smiled at me repeatedly. I realized at checkout she thought I was someone she knew. I nodded through a full conversation without knowing who I was pretending to be. FML
Today, I was talking to my girlfriend about extinct peoples, and I said how close the Jewish people came to becoming one. She condescendingly told me they don't exist anymore. When I asked what she was talking about, I realized she was confusing them with the Vikings. What the hell? FML
Today, I got written up by HR after my new coworker told them I had an ignorant, offensive caricature of Native American people decorating my desk. It was a framed photograph of an actual Native American tribe that belonged to my history buff grandfather. FML
Today, my sister called my Native American friend a bigot for saying he had no problem with the name "Cleveland Indians". FML
Today, a lady at the clothing store told me to, “Stop speaking 'Mexicano', this is America!” when I was talking on the phone. I actually speak Portuguese. When I pointed this out, she verbally tortured me and threatened to, “Call the cops” if I didn’t leave her store for, “making her feel threatened.” FML
Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML
Today, I was at a mall. A woman stopped by me, said slowly and loudly, in Spanish "baño?" Knowing a bit of Spanish, I nodded and pointed the restrooms out for her. She then mutters about "dang Mexicans and their inability to speak English". I'm not even Latina. I'm Irish-American. FML
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ZoZo17_fml 0
omg... can you spell idiot.??
YayorNay 8
Idiat...nope I can't.
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Comments (384)
Mekeritrig 15
'Went extinct'? More like wiped out.
tlpoco 0
I'm sorry sir but no we aren't wiped out.
idsrbs 8
omg what an idiot. makes me want to apologize for her stupidity.
TraceCase_ 19
The majority of my small town high school population was Native American. FYI, for those ignorant ***** out there, Pow-Wows are really fun and Indian tacos (made with fry bread) are the absolute best! If you've never had one, you're really missing out on something special.
peithecelt 28
I went to college in the 4 Corners region, and have landed back in the north east.. More than the sunny winters, more than the mountains, more than the golden aspens... I would kill for access to a real, honest to goodness Indian tacos.. Those things are like crack. *droool*
idrow 7
My husband went to Walmart last week and he said the name tag on the cashier was Shanaynay. I thought that was a joke name from In Living Color. The world frightens me.
sematariux 7
lmfao
TalkinSmack 6
if only IGNORANCE was EXTINCT!!
je_tdwp 4
Uh Beiber came from Canada you freaking idiot. So please shut up because you're not exactly a genius either. Besides if America sucks so bad why does half your country want to be up here?
JustinH2100 5
These are the people who are going to run our government in the future. FML
akayc32 0
49, kind of disappointing that you see those few individuals and can believe the rest of "us" are morons. Does that make you a drug dealer?
dbt88 15
Why would she bother asking if that's what you are if she thought the whole race was extinct? She would obviously look stupid in one half of her question/statement no matter your answer.