31 Things Indigenous People Are Tired Of Hearing

    Via the #DontSayIt hashtag on Twitter.

    1.

    #dontsayit how can you be aboriginal when you're so pale?

    2.

    @IndigenousX Really? Gosh, you don't look like one. #dontsayit

    3.

    #dontsayit what percentage aboriginal are you?

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    5.

    "Not being racist or anything but ..." #dontsayit

    6.

    Do you pay rent or did you get that house for free? #dontsayit

    7.

    @IndigenousX #dontsayit what year did the last aboriginal tasmanian die?

    8.

    I am not racist, I went to school with a Darkie #dontsayit

    9.

    #dontsayit 'are you like, a proper, real life Aborigine. Cos I've never met one before"

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    11.

    You sure your Aboriginal? You don't have a flat nose #dontsayit

    12.

    I think my mum or dad has Aboriginal In them #dontsayit

    13.

    #dontsayit but you speak really well for an aboriginal person

    14.

    #dontsayit don't worry you can't tell

    15.

    "So do you have ppl in your family that are like, BLACKER than you?" #dontsayit

    16.

    So, you get money from the government, right? #dontsayit

    17.

    @mediaINDIGENA @nareenyoung #dontsayit ' 'you get your intelligence from your white side, right ?!'

    18.

    #dontsayit can you show me the outback?

    19.

    #dontsayit 'go to uni the Aboriginal way cos you'll never make it the white way'

    20.

    #dontsayit you don't sound Aboriginal

    21.

    *gibberish* isn't that how you say hello in your language? #DontSayIt

    22.

    #dontsayit 'you're really pretty for an Aboriginal"

    23.

    Stop obsessing over the past. #dontsayit

    24.

    But we don't think of you as Aboriginal, you're normal. #dontsayit #truestory

    25.

    "If you hate Europeans and colonization so much why do you speak their languages?" #Dontsayit

    26.

    "My friend who was part-Aboriginal told me once…" #dontsayit

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    28.

    #dontsayit but I'm indigenous I was born here

    29.

    "It's not like I killed your ancestors, I don't even get why you're all still mad." #Dontsayit

    30.

    "It's people like THAT [a drunk person] that give you people a bad wrap!" #dontsayit

    31.

    "I know you're Aboriginal but you're not like those other ones" #dontsayit