lovewitch2016:

it’s really fascinating to see how white people react to a clear incident of heinous white sociopathy (such as this stealing bones incident). to them it’s just another example of bizarre people on tumblr being bizarre, and provides an instance of comedy, but for people of color it’s literally jarring to think about a white girl purchasing the skeleton of a girl of color and parading it around as a trinket. there’s literally a history of colonial regimes and slaveowners of parading around colonized and enslaved subjects, of colonizers and slaveowners keeping a proud body count of the number of indigenous people they’ve killed or anti-colonial rebels they’ve killed or slaves they’ve kidnapped. like….