29 జూన్, 2025

"Several Native influencers, performers, and academics took to social media this week to criticize Beyoncé or decry the shirt’s language as anti-Indigenous."

"'Do you think Beyoncé will apologize (or acknowledge) the shirt?' indigenous.tv, an Indigenous news and culture Instagram account with more than 130,000 followers, asked in a post Thursday. Many of her critics, as well as fans, agree. A flood of social media posts called out the pop star for the historic framing on the shirt...."

From "Fans criticize Beyoncé for shirt calling Native Americans 'the enemies of peace'" (AP).

What shirt? It was a T-shirt depicting the Buffalo Soldiers that stated that "their antagonists were the enemies of peace, order and settlement: warring Indians, bandits, cattle thieves, murderous gunmen, bootleggers, trespassers, and Mexican revolutionaries."

ADDED: The only Indians mentioned by the shirt are "warring Indians," so by definition they are against peace. If there were some Indians who were pro-peace, the shirt has nothing to say about them. I'm not seeing the NRA complaining about "murderous gunmen" or Mexicans complaining about "Mexican revolutionaries."

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Aggie చెప్పారు...

She should cover the offensive shirt with Melania's "I really don't care" jacket. A nickel's worth of 'Oh Noes', please.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

So she was pandering to blacks (buffalo soldiers) and insulted another group (Indians). That's the chance you take when you're a pander bear.

With honeyed words, they chase applause,
Yet stumble blind to others’ cause.
Their praise for one, a thoughtless dart,
Offends unseen, wounds tender hearts.




RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

In fairness to the Indians, they were "Mostly peaceful" except for the scalping, raping, kidnapping, and looting.

Ice Nine చెప్పారు...

So an article about a T-shirt. An article full of photos - and not a one of the T-shirt.

n.n చెప్పారు...

Xenophobic? Anti-illegal alien? The first, second, and succeeding "indigenous" nations were diverse, some Diverse, and some entertained abortive ideation for political progress and other purposes. Wicked.

TosaGuy చెప్పారు...

130k followers. They say that like it is a meaningful number. Beyoncé would fill a stadium concert with that if there was one that big. She also has FU money.

Peachy చెప్పారు...

Perhaps people should learn history - before they tear-down the statue.

Tina Trent చెప్పారు...

Let's do brass tacks. Beyonce will not be punished because she is black. She will at most have to accuse white culture of making her do it.

It's the hierarchy of oppression.

wendybar చెప్పారు...

I love it when someone on the left gets reamed out by the left. THEY created this monster...and now it is biting them in the ass.

n.n చెప్పారు...

At the crossroads of Diversity, hypocrisy, and privileged culture (PC) lies a double-edged scalpel.

Dude1394 చెప్పారు...

How the heck are news readers supposed to know what these folks are talking about if they will not provide an image of the shirt. Oh the horror, the horror.
Well, Comanches for instance were a blood thirsty lot. Raiding and stealing children all across the west. From canada to mexico.

Aggie చెప్పారు...

It's a Beyonce puff piece. It's not designed to communicate the outrage in the DEI community, it's designed to showcase Beyonce, in a way that juxtaposes her 'edginess' to improve sales in the C&W music world.

It's like the photo-article of Megan Markle in her garden, with all the pictures - 'away from the cameras'.

n.n చెప్పారు...

The Aztecs performed human rites for social, political, and climate progress. We dodged that liberalism. Oh, wait.

Skeptical Voter చెప్పారు...

She had a point about the Comanches.

Randomizer చెప్పారు...

The perpetual victims blame America for everything, so despise American heroes, even the Black ones like the Buffalo Soldiers.

If Beyonce were a boss, she would perform a cover of Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldiers".

Paul చెప్పారు...

The 'influencers' just have to cry about SOMETHING.. even if it is nothing. All you are seeing is a 'look at me' moment...

Mary Beth చెప్పారు...
ఈ కామెంట్‌ను రచయిత తీసివేశారు.
Mary Beth చెప్పారు...

The shirt. It just says "Buffalo Soldiers" with a drawing of men on horseback.

The Buffalo Soldiers were the first all-Black peacetime regiments. Their enemies were the same as any other soldiers of the time.

This is stupid. But also kind of funny. I wonder if there will be any statues coming down.

Curious George చెప్పారు...

"TosaGuy said...
130k followers. They say that like it is a meaningful number. Beyoncé would fill a stadium concert with that if there was one that big."

Indianapolis Motor Speedway could handle it. 257,000+ seats

Two-eyed Jack చెప్పారు...

I highly recommend Empire of the Summer Moon for a better understanding of the Comanches and the settlement of the West. It gives perspective on a lot of issues including the history of Mexico's failed colonization of the same land.

TaeJohnDo చెప్పారు...

I asked one of the Archaeologist we used when I was in the Forest Service what his most memorable dig was. He said it was finding a skeleton of a Navajo woman at the bottom of a well, on top of the skeleton of a young child, with a Comanche arrow head imbedded in her spine.

Wince చెప్పారు...

Hispanic Mexicans playing the “indigenous peoples” card again?

Ampersand చెప్పారు...

The indigenous peoples were noble, wise, innocent, and just. They acquired and kept their territories without violence or conflict. We are not worthy to evaluate them in the false light of so-called objectivity.

Jupiter చెప్పారు...

Wait until these morons discover John Wayne movies.

bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

Offense fashion is as fickle as any other, and like other fashion has no tether to reason.

Jersey Fled చెప్పారు...

I think Beyoncé is the most overrated “artist” in the history of the universe. But nice t-shirt.

bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

I've read Empire of the Summer Moon, and other similar first hand accounts of Native American / European contact. The brutality and cruelty of some tribes is hard to fathom, sometimes reaching demonic in it's gratuitous savagery. The Whites certainly did their own gratuitous killing, but the Natives often seemed to relish the most painful and inhumane tortures imaginable, and did so as a community celebration. The Comanches seemed especially inclined. The same people would have individuals that were also surprisingly humane to the innocent. Brutally kill one child and raise another like one of their own. Hard for the modern mind to understand.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

They are just mad they paid Beyonce all that money for an endorsement and didn't even get a bad song out of it.

Howard చెప్పారు...

Orthogonal intersectionality

William చెప్పారు...

The Apaches and the Mexicans had some problems getting along with the Comanches. At the time of Cortes, most of the indigenous peoples preferred the Spanish to the Aztecs.......Beyond this, there's the fact that most wars, like, say, the Crimean War, are of no consequence or like WWI produce horrendous negative consequences. The settlement of the west was not inconsequential and, on balance, the results were beneficial.

Maynard చెప్పారు...

So an article about a T-shirt. An article full of photos - and not a one of the T-shirt.

I guess that a trigger warning was not enough to prevent the emotional damage done to woke White women offended by insults to Native Americans.

You really have to wonder about the mindset of editors today.

Dude1394 చెప్పారు...

Great book.

“ bagoh20 said...
I've read Empire of the Summer Moon, and other similar first hand accounts of Native American / European contact. The brutality and cruelty of some tribes is hard to fathom,”

William చెప్పారు...

I recently read a bio of Napoleon III. His settlement wars were with the people of Paris. Progressive voices like Hugo and Zola were against him. He made Paris the City of Light, but to do this he had to forcibly relocate the poor from the old medieval Paris and tear their hovels down. This worked some great hardships on them, but they've been dead and gone for generations and the broad boulevards of Paris remain. Napoleon III also indulged in Empire building in Algeria and Vietnam. The progressive voices of the time for the most part approved of his spreading enlightened values to such dark places......I don't know who was more wrong: Napoleon III or the enlightened people of his era.

loudogblog చెప్పారు...

Activists gotta activate.

Just an old country lawyer చెప్పారు...

Stories about someone making a "racial slur," spoken or written, almost never repeat the words so we can judge for ourselves the statement's degree of offensiveness, all in order not to offend those prone to take offense. For the same reason, I guess, we don't get to see the tee shirt.
I am no fan of Beyonce's singing, but I'll bet she can wear a tee shirt very well indeed.

robother చెప్పారు...

The Buffalo soldiers could deal with warring Indians: they were not prepared for the attack from their rear of the Indignant Americans. And what's that I see coming from the South, an even larger force, waving the Mexican flag? Bey's surrounded, like Custer at the Little Big Horn. She better hope they'll be satisfied with a weave.

Ron Winkleheimer చెప్పారు...

No chance Beyonce apologizes. The Buffalo Soldiers are serious heroes in black culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2whCq2iTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUQMSXLlHM&list=RDuMUQMSXLlHM&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMXsTGQ4AKc
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RAa2mo-8L0
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b0gFB5Anhp4

Mason G చెప్పారు...

I'm told that, in order to relate to people, it's important that they look like you. That being the case, I don't really care about the t-shirt or any indignation over it.

Just an old country lawyer చెప్పారు...

I take back what I said. They don't tell the reader the "racial slur" precisely because they want the easily offended to take the writer's word for it that the words were offensive, which the reader might not do if the offensive words were actually set out for the reader to make up his own mind. Please, Media, do our thinking for us.

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

JFC.
Everyone is a GD victim.
It's just a shirt with AA soldiers on it, fer chrissakes.
When I was stationed at Fort Sill, their images were all over the place. I even have a small statue that was a departure gift.

Josephbleau చెప్పారు...

I would say that the buffalo soldiers were a proud example for all Americans to respect today. You can respect those who faithfully did their duty to a cause regardless of how that cause is viewed by today’s elites.

The panoply of history is the record of how individual humans supported a better world.

Mary Beth చెప్పారు...

I couldn't figure out where it said anything other than "Buffalo Soldiers". Apparently that's on the back as part of a long section of text. In the photos I saw, she was wearing a coat or a jacket that covered the back.

According to Wikipedia, "On February 20, 2014, officials at the United States Army post, Fort Bliss, changed the name of Robert E. Lee Road to Buffalo Soldier Road." Now what?

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

This calls up the scene from "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", supposedly based on an actual event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN90wZRnyM0

David53 చెప్పారు...

@Bagoh20

“ I've read Empire of the Summer Moon, and other similar first hand accounts of Native American / European contact.”

One of the better books about NAs. I was born in Quanah, Texas the town named after Quanah Parker. Also, the Karankawa were cannibals. Life was hard back then.

Lazarus చెప్పారు...

Say what you will, her new single "Killin' Me Some Indians" is da bomb.

Joe Bar చెప్పారు...

This was much more offensive, yet, I don't recall any outcries against Cher!
https://youtu.be/Z6E98ZRaU1s?si=L-wkWJ3o1TqQeauB

Lazarus చెప్పారు...

Redbone is due for a rediscovery. I remember their songs "Wovoka" and "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee," but their big hit was "Come and Get Your Love." Some of their members were Mexican-Americans, rather than Indians. One of the founders is still touring, as is an imposter band.

Smilin' Jack చెప్పారు...

There’s a reason the Plains Indians were commonly referred to by their contemporaries as “warriors”.

Indigo Red చెప్పారు...

American Indigenes were anything but peaceful. They gloried in warfare, killing, torture, and though the moderns deny this, cannibalism (not the ritual kind.) They were also slavers - obtainers, buyers, sellers, and holders - long before any Europeans showed up.

Buffalo Soldiers were called that by the plains Indigenes because of their hair. The Black soldier's tightly coiled hair resembled that of the buffalo.

Comanche Empire
Empire of the Summer Moon
Lakota America
Indigenous Continent
1491
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

The Godfather చెప్పారు...

According to some records, one of my Plymouth Colony ancestors in the 17th Century was married to an Indian (Native American) woman. If so, I have enough Native American ancestry to qualify for a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts. Nevertheless, I'm glad that the Indian Wars ended up the way they did, not only in the West, but in New England as well.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

"On February 20, 2014, officials at the United States Army post, Fort Bliss, changed the name of Robert E. Lee Road to Buffalo Soldier Road."

At least they didnt change it to "Buffalo chip road"

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

After the Civil war, the US army was not only fairly small (30,000 men more or less), it was unpopular. At least being an enlisted man in the Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery was.

Thats why you ended up with 2 Regiments of "colored" cavalry out of 10. And 2 regiments of "Colored" Infantry out of 25. To fill out the remainder you had a lot of immigrants.
The desertion rate was high.

Big Mike చెప్పారు...

Buffalo Soldiers were on the left flank of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the charge up San Juan Hill. Unlike the Rough Riders, who were armed with Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action repeating carbines, the Buffalo Soldiers had single shot black powder carbines. Not only did the black troopers have a slower rate of fire, but every shot gave away their precise position. The Krag–Jørgensen used smokeless powder so the Rough Riders did not leave a tell tale cloud of smoke to mark where they were firing from.

gilbar చెప్పారు...

is bouncy TRYING to make me like her? it Might Be working

Rusty చెప్పారు...

“ bagoh20 said...
I've read Empire of the Summer Moon, and other similar first hand accounts of Native American / European contact. The brutality and cruelty of some tribes is hard to fathom,”

Not some tribes. All of them. The weak were quickly overcome by the strong. The weak were forced to live on the margins. The Inuit in the high arctic. The Anasazi and Hopi in their cliff houses and fortresses. Very few tribes inhabited the land they lived on just a generation or two before the europeans came. The tribes we met were the conquerors. Eager to make allies of the new people that perceived as more powerful.

Tim చెప్పారు...

I want to be angry for Beyonce, but that is what happens when you are part of the woke mob. They will turn against you for any reason they can find. Meanwhile, I have read histories of the Buffalo Soldiers, and I can tell you, it shows in every letter and interview I have read. It was a proud thing to be a Buffalo Soldier, and honoring them is no bad thing.

PM చెప్పారు...

What we need is an official Hierarchy of the Oppressed.

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