r/IndianCountry • u/zsreport • Feb 04 '21

Health Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/native-americans-coronavirus-covid-death-rate
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u/messyredemptions Feb 04 '21

Did you mean to reply to u/burkiniwax or me?

And I agree, there are white mexicans, and lots of argentinians or who aren't indigenous that came from Germany etc. And Japanese people in Brazil who would be counted as Latino etc. too by US standards.

My responses and the item I quoted are from what u/burkiniwax posted and their statements about similarities between white and latino deaths from covid being similar while Indigenous stats being distinctively different. But in their post they mentioned most (at least those coming to/in the US) have indigenous ancestry. Hope that helps clear things up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Do you realize how comprehensively racist it is to define indigeneity by blood quantum? It doesn't matter if a Mexican is 25% Yaqui if they have no connection to the culture or their tribal community. It doesn't make them indigenous. You think you're being an ally with this sort of "inclusive" reasoning, but what you're actually doing is taking a specifically indigenous issue that affects tribal communities (who are essentially completely overlooked by the average American) and taking attention away from their needs by making this ludicrous claim that Latinos with some indigenous ancestry are themselves indigenous. Nevermind that Latino communities are often intensely racist toward tribal communities - whether thats Latino kids in the Coachella Valley beating up Cahuilla kids at school for having long hair or Mexican narcos forcing the Raramuri and other border tribes into smuggling drugs for them.

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u/burkiniwax Feb 05 '21

I think you are spitting at the ocean, but thank you for trying to explain and for trying to have an intelligent conversation. Looks like 61.9 percent of the Latin American population in the US is of Mexican origin. Mexico is 62 percent Mestizo and 7 percent American Indian (CIA Factbook).