Please Don’t Support This

jhaernyl:

diaryofajewishconvert:

A trailer for a new movie starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen just came out, and we should all be mad. 

This is a movie about murder on native american reservations, FRAMING THE ENTIRE STORY AROUND WHITE PEOPLE. 

For context, this is actually a serious problem on reservations because the government does not give a single flying fuck and evil white men have figured out that native women are easy targets. 84% of native women report being the victims of violence, significantly higher than any other group in the country. 90% of the perpetrators are non-native. Reservation governments can’t try white people and the FBI refuses to, so the violent crime rates are much higher. Native women routinely go missing, and people in power do not give a damn.

So now they’re making a movie about it WHERE ALL THE NATIVE PEOPLE ARE BACKGROUND CHARACTERS IN THEIR OWN STORY. This is, of course, continuing the longstanding tradition of media and hollywood completely ignoring native people and giving even the few roles that should belong to them (Jacob Black in Twilight, Jacqueline White on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) go to white people, making it completely impossible for native people to tell their own stories, while white people make millions off of exploiting them.

tldr; White people have spent centuries murdering natives and trying to destroy native communities, which continues in horrifying ways today, and now another movie made by white people has just come out which will make millions of dollars from commodifying this violence.

PLEASE REBLOG. PLEASE DON’T GIVE MONEY TO THIS MOVIE. PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS NOT TO.

Form wikipedia:

Lautner has Austrian, English, German, Swiss-German, French, Irish, and Dutch heritage, and has stated that he has “distant" Native American ancestry (specifically Ottawa and Potawatomi), through his mother.

That out of the way (because I saw enough people badmouth Lautner back when the movies came out to let the reference just slide by), I agree with you that this is horrible and will be boycotting the movie and signal boosting the post.

Thank you for the heads up.