I admittedly never heard too much hype about Reservation Dogs, even from my Native family who aches for representation, and normally this would bother me. I excitedly planned to watch it myself until a friend in my old Two-Spirit group chat rolled in one day deeply upset at the quality of the representation. He, a non-Black Native, explained to us that he’d been watching but could no longer take the rampant anti-Blackness, from the eerie lack of Afro-Natives in a tribe which holds a good amount of us in real life to one character’s recurring minstrel act. This marked the beginning of my parasocial enemyship with one of the show’s creators, Indigenous darling Taika Waititi.
MSc Data Science Lecture Notes. L2: Introduction to Statistics ??? Part 1 of 2
The army was considering putting on additional armor to increase the survival chances of their planes. The question was: where to put it? You…