The acronym "BIPOC" refers to "black, indigenous, and other people of color" and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people.
I can track ancestors who lived their whole lives in America going back to the early 1800s. That’s 200+ years and 9 generations. That makes 11 generations for my grandkid. How long do you have to live somewhere to be considered “indigenous?”
The acronym "BIPOC" refers to "black, indigenous, and other people of color" and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people.
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I can track ancestors who lived their whole lives in America going back to the early 1800s. That’s 200+ years and 9 generations. That makes 11 generations for my grandkid. How long do you have to live somewhere to be considered “indigenous?”
They define it to mean people in an area before colonists:
(of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.
They conveniently forget that once upon a time, the indigenous ancestors were colonists.