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decolonization

Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

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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

Conas a shainmhíníonn tú "diúltú"? Mothaím go bhfuil go leor lonnaitheoirí ag samhlú dídeanachtaí móra, rud a deir go leor faoin gcaoi a bhfeiceann siad an domhan fós. Duine dom, ciallaíonn diúltú an tionchar lasmuigh a dhícheangal agus ár gcearta breithe a athghabháil, lena n-áirítear traidisiún. Ar ndóigh, is gníomh folamh é traidisiún a athghabháil mura bhfuil smacht againn ar ár dtalamh agus má táimid fós ag taithí ar ghinéiceid. Fanann conarthaí briste nó go hiomlán neamhfhoirne. Bheadh an Eoraip, an tUachtarán & Ceanada brónach má bhí orthu i ndáiríre íoc leis na pobail a d'ísligh, a d'úsáid agus a ghoid uathu. Ós rud é go bhfuil sé fadhbúil freisin stát etnos a chruthú cosúil le hIosrael, caithfimid bealach lárnach a fháil. Ní féidir le go leor cloigíní a bheith á n-aistriú, cosúil le carving Mt. Rushmore mar bhealach chun suíomh naofa a dhíghlasáil-- mar sin caithfimid bealach amach a fháil a dhéanann iarracht na mílte mícheart a cheartú agus gan foirm nua éag a chruthú. Teastaíonn ó dhaoine go mbeadh caidreamh rás mar a simplí le Dubh agus bán, ach tá sé i bhfad níos casta agus níos nuálaí ná sin. Bhí na hIndiach dúchasach á n-ísligh ag na colónaithe Eorpacha sular tugadh na hAfraicigh anseo; bhí fir dhubha saor ó Spáinn ag maoiniú na nIndiach dúchasach díreach mar a bhí ar na sclábhaithe dubha a bhí le dul le a máistrí Cherokee ar an gConair na nUisce. Gan trácht ar na Saighdiúirí Buffalo a bhí ag fáil miontuairiscí as sinn a mharú agus an Tuarascáil Neamhspleáchais fós ag rá nach bhfuil sé i bhfeidhm orainn "na savage". Sílim gurb é an chéad chéim chun diúltú ná go nglacfaidh daoine le stair agus go dtuigfidh siad go bhfuil ár gcoinníollacha fréamhaithe sa chaoi a raibh. Níl sé i ndáiríre chomh casta sin chun do chloigeann a chur timpeall air, ach mothaím go má tá ár sochaí neamhchomhoiriúnach maidir le cad é an grá rómánsúil, ní rachaidh muid riamh i gcomhoiriúnacht ar cad a chiallaíonn "comhoiriúnacht".

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