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Decolonization

decolonization

Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

Tus neeg siab tshaj yog ib feem ntawm kev raug nplua nuj

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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

Koj yuav piav qhia "tso tseg" li cas? Kuv xav tias ntau tus neeg tuaj tshiab xav txog kev xa tawm ntau tus neeg, uas qhia txog qhov lawv tseem pom lub ntiaj teb. Rau kuv, tso tseg txhais tau tias tshem tawm kev cuam tshuam sab nraud thiab rov qab tau peb cov cai yug, suav nrog kab lis kev cai. Tsuas yog, rov qab tau kab lis kev cai yog ib qho kev ua tsis muaj nuj nqis yog peb tsis muaj kev tswj hwm ntawm peb lub teb chaws thiab tseem muaj kev tua neeg. Cov kev pom zoo tseem raug rhuav tshem lossis tsis tau ua tiav. Europe, U.S. & Canada yuav poob nyiaj yog lawv yuav tsum tau them rau cov zej zog lawv tau ua kom raug, siv thiab rub tawm. Txij li tsim ib lub xeev ethno zoo li Is Nais, nws kuj yog ib qho teeb meem, peb yuav tsum nrhiav ib qho chaw nruab nrab. Ntau lub suab nco tsis tuaj yeem rov qab, xws li carving Mt. Rushmore ua ib txoj kev los rhuav tshem ib qho chaw hwm-- yog li peb yuav tsum nrhiav txoj hauv kev mus tom ntej uas sim kho ntau qhov yuam kev thaum tseem tsis tsim ib qho kev tsis ncaj ncees tshiab. Cov neeg xav kom kev sib raug zoo ntawm haiv neeg yooj yim li Dub thiab white, tab sis nws muaj ntau yam nyuaj thiab muaj nuances ntau dua ntawd. Cov Native Americans tau raug ua kom raug los ntawm cov neeg tuaj tshiab European ua ntej cov neeg African tau coj tuaj; cov txiv neej Dub dawb los ntawm Spain muaj cov Native Americans zoo li cov neeg Dub raug ua kom raug yuav tsum mus nrog lawv cov tswv Cherokee ntawm txoj kev Tears. Tsis hais txog Buffalo Soldiers tau txais cov khoom plig rau kev tua peb thiab qhov Declaration of Independence tseem hais tias nws tsis siv rau peb "cov neeg phem". Kuv xav tias thawj kauj ruam mus tso tseg yog kom cov neeg txais tau keeb kwm thiab nkag siab tias peb cov xwm txheej yog nyob hauv keeb kwm. Nws tsis yog qhov nyuaj heev los npaj koj lub siab txog qhov ntawd, tab sis nws zoo li yog tias peb lub zej zog tsis tuaj yeem pom zoo txog qhov romantic love yog dab tsi, peb yuav tsis pom zoo txog qhov "kev sib npaug" txhais tau li cas.

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Tus neeg siab tshaj yog ib feem ntawm kev raug nplua nuj

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