He'll ride to heroic adventures with The Lone Ranger wearing our Tonto Costume Collection for Boys, pairing the spectacular Tonto Headdress with our 2-piece Tonto costume featuring sheer top and faux buckskin britches.
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Cool kemosabe
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Feathered friend
Imagination soars while wearing our deluxe Tonto headdress with wig inspired by the Lone Ranger's trusted companion. Faux suede headband, beaded braids, real feathers, and a crow topper highlight this showstopper.
Comment: Dress up as an authentic Comanche for Halloween! With a bird on your head! Because Johnny Depp respects Indians! #disneyfail
Did anyone think I was kidding when I posted the Tonto image below? Because I wasn't.
When you're Johnny Depp, I guess every day is Halloween. If you're not one fantasy figure, you're another.
With this move, Disney reveals its true colors. If anyone doubted it, The Lone Ranger is all about making money. Neither Depp nor Disney cares about Indians or they wouldn't allow this travesty.
In other words, all their pro-Indian gestures are phony and hypocritical. They're meant only to placate critics of their gross misrepresentation of Indians.
For more on The Lone Ranger, see Inside Scoop on Lone Ranger and Depp Admires Tonto's Giant Nuts.
P.S. This is the first time I've seen the bird explicitly identified as a crow rather than a raven. Now we know what it's supposed to be.
I can only conclude that Johnny Depp is a bird brain.
ReplyDeleteHeavy sigh....Told you so. My worst nightmare has come true. Fuck Johnny Depp and those traitorous so called NDNs.
ReplyDeleteThe trailers to the movie scream "unwatchable". Just like the trailers to the Robt Downey Jr "Sherlock Holmes" movies.
ReplyDeleteRob: FYI, your compuserve account is down, kemo-sabe.
ReplyDeleteIndian Country Today quoted me in its article on the subject:
ReplyDelete"Neither Depp nor Disney cares about Indians or they wouldn't allow this travesty," writes Rob Schmidt at Newspaper Rock. "All their pro-Indian gestures are phony and hypocritical. They're meant only to placate critics of their gross misrepresentation of Indians."
More from the article:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/05/disney-store-offers-tonto-halloween-costume-149727
Disney Store Offers Tonto Halloween Costume
The idea of children dressing in "Indian" costume is troubling to many in Indian country, for a number of reasons--the sort of costumes kids are taught to wear emphasize a warlike, Plains people, reinforcing stereotypes from Hollywood films and teaching children that Native culture is monolithic. Another disturbing implication is that it's ok to dress up as an entire race--actually, just one race, as few parents who let their young children go trick-or-treating dressed as "an Indian" would permit costumes of "a black" or "an Asian."
Duwanna L. Robertson commented on this site that the fall is the toughest time of the year for American Indians due to a quadruple-whammy of seasonal racial insensitivity: Halloween, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, and football season (Redskins-Chiefs is December 8, mark your calendars). And in a recent TED talk, Nancy Marie Mithlo made the connection between casual racial stereotyping among children and college girls who feel it's ok to dress as slutty "Pocahotties" for theme parties.