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decolonization

Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

Menslike Supremasie is deel van kolonisering

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How do you define "decolonization"? I feel a lot of settlers imagine mass deportations, which says a lot about how they still view the world. For me, decolonizing means de-centering outside influence and reclaiming our birthrights, including tradition. Of course, reclaiming tradition is an empty gesture if we have no control over our land and are still experiencing genocide. Treaties remain broken or totally unfulfilled. Europe, the U.S. & Canada would be bankrupted if they actually had to pay the communities they've enslaved, exploited and stolen from. Since creating an ethnostate like Israel is also problematic, we have to find a midway point. So many bells can't be unrung, like carving Mt. Rushmore as a way of defacing a sacred site-- so we have to figure out a way forward that attempts to correct myriad wrongs while also not creating some new form of injustice. People want race relations to be as simple as Black and white, but it's much more complex and nuanced than that. Native Americans were enslaved by European colonizers before Africans were brought here; free Black men from Spain owned Native Americans just like Black slaves had to accompany their Cherokee masters on the Trail of Tears. Not to mention Buffalo Soldiers getting medals for killing us and the Declaration of Independence still saying it doesn't apply to us "savages". I guess the first step to decolonization is for people to accept history and understand that our circumstances are rooted in the past. It's not really that complicated to wrap your mind around that, but it feels like if our society can't come to agreement about what romantic love is, we'll never agree on what "equality" means.

Defining Decolonization

Hoe definieer jy "dekolonisering"? Ek voel baie setlaars stel voor massadeportasies voor, wat baie sê oor hoe hulle steeds die wêreld sien. Vir my beteken dekolonisering om buite-invloed te ontkoppel en ons geboorteregte, insluitend tradisie, terug te eis. Natuurlik is dit 'n leë gebaar om tradisie terug te eis as ons geen beheer oor ons grond het nie en steeds genocide ervaar. Verdrags bly gebroke of heeltemal onvervuld. Europa, die VSA en Kanada sou bankrot wees as hulle werklik die gemeenskappe waarvoor hulle slawe gemaak, uitgebuit en gesteel het, moes betaal. Aangesien die skep van 'n etnostaat soos Israel ook problematies is, moet ons 'n middeweg vind. So baie klokkies kan nie weer stilgemaak word nie, soos om Mt. Rushmore te beeldhou as 'n manier om 'n heilige plek te beskaam-- so ons moet 'n pad vorentoe vind wat probeer om 'n menigte onregte reg te stel terwyl dit ook nie 'n nuwe vorm van onregverdigheid skep nie. Mense wil hê rasseverhoudinge moet so eenvoudig wees soos swart en wit, maar dit is baie meer kompleks en nuansed as dit. Inheemse Amerikaners is deur Europese koloniste in slawerny gehou voordat Afrikane hier gebring is; vrye swart mans van Spanje het inheemse Amerikaners besit net soos swart slawe saam met hul Cherokee meesters op die Trail of Tears moes gaan. Om nie te praat van Buffalo Soldiers wat medaljes ontvang het vir die doodmaak van ons nie en die Onafhanklikheidsverklaring wat steeds sê dit geld nie vir ons "wilde nie". Ek raai die eerste stap na dekolonisering is dat mense die geskiedenis moet aanvaar en verstaan dat ons omstandighede in die verlede gewortel is. Dit is nie regtig so ingewikkeld om jou gedagtes daaroor te draai nie, maar dit voel asof as ons samelewing nie oor wat romantiese liefde is kan ooreenkom nie, sal ons nooit oor wat "gelykheid" beteken kan ooreenkom nie.

Die Definisie van Dekolonisering

'n Boo-gemeenskap om ander Decolonization entoesiaste te ontmoet.

Decolonization Gemeenskap

Menslike Supremasie is deel van kolonisering

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Die Definisie van Dekolonisering