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)
GoArmy6624 7
that's what happens when u hand the educational department to democrats and neo-cons.
SnowwWhite 2
If you hate your country so much then why not leave? There are ignorant morons in every country, not just the United States. Maybe instead of hating on your country you should try to do something to make it better for people.
instantmusic 4
Many of us don't like our country, or the people in it. But that doesn't mean we'd rather be anywhere else. Its like that relative that makes you facepalm everytime he opens his mouth. You wish he wasn't such an idiot, you even get angry with him at times, but he's still family dammit!
Bobissmall 13
Wait wait wait. Wait. Native Americans were there first, then you guys invaded/immigrated. Why the **** should they leave.
sakkababe08 0
she shouldn't leave, all the idiots should. we were here first (I am native American also) and then out populated by everyone else.
AriadneBelle 3
By that logic, Native Americans should go back to Asia. They didn't start out in the U.S. either.
cdninf 4
No one is going to leave their country because some dumb **** said something ignorant.
77777771 12
Good point 207.
Beck2209 0
Don't put down the nation; just put down that one ignorant person.
sebigdog 3
wish them dumbass rednecks were extinct!
SouthernPride95 19
asshole i for one love rednecks
coredumpfml 4
The average americans is fat and dumb beyond imagination. Most of them couldn't point to the earth if they were given three tries.
coredumpfml 4
It's true that there are idiots in every country. in most countries though, they fail to reproduce and die, taking themselves out of the gene pool, making the country stronger. In america, using your brain is seen as a bad thing. The idiots are celebrated, protected and sometimes even elected to the presidency (you know who). This makes America dumber by the minute. Keep up the good work and in a few generations the average american will only be smart enough not to dump on the kitchen floor.
togahanavee 1
yeah thats actually happened to me too. most people think we Navajo are extinct.
astarazhna 1
Terrible! Native Americans are amazing, such a shame the atrocities cast upon them...
Glambert_lover 5
Wow she's ******* stupid!
quadder 0
49 if you want to take credit for bieber being from USA by all means, just one less embarrassment for Canada