History

Decolonization

decolonization

Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

Ike mmadụ bụ akụkụ nke ịbụ ndị a kọrọ.

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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

Kedu ka ị si kọwaa "ncheta"? Anụrụ m na ọtụtụ ndị bi na ya na-eche banyere ịkwaga ọtụtụ mmadụ, nke na-egosi ọtụtụ banyere otu ha ka na-ele ụwa anya. Maka m, ncheta pụtara ịhapụ mmetụta ndị ọzọ na ịweghachite ikike anyị, gụnyere omenala. N'ezie, iweghachite omenala bụ ihe efu ma ọ bụrụ na anyị enweghị njikwa n'ala anyị ma ka na-enwe ahụhụ n'ịkpa ókè. Nkwekọrịta ka na-emerụ ma ọ bụ na-adịghị emezu. Europe, U.S. & Canada ga-efunahụ ego ma ọ bụrụ na ha kwesịrị ịkwụ ụgwọ ndị obodo ha ji n'ọrụ, na-emebi na na-ewepụ. Ebe ọ bụ na ịmepụta steeti etnọ dịka Israel bụkwa nsogbu, anyị ga-achọ ịchọta ụzọ etiti. Ọtụtụ ụda anaghị agbanwe, dịka ịkpụ Mt. Rushmore dịka ụzọ iji mebie ebe nsọ-- ya mere, anyị ga-achọ ịchọta ụzọ gara n'ihu nke na-anwa idozi ọtụtụ mmehie na-enweghị ịmepụta ụdị ọhụụ nke mmejọ. Ndị mmadụ chọrọ ka mmekọrịta agbụrụ bụrụ ihe dị mfe dịka Ojii na ọcha, ma ọ bụ ihe dị mgbagwoju anya na nke dị iche iche karịa nke ahụ. Ndị Amerịka bụ ndị a mụrụ na ya bụ ndị Europe ji n'ọrụ tupu e bịa na ndị Afrịka; ndị nwoke ojii n'efu si Spain nwere ndị Amerịka bụ ndị a mụrụ na ya dịka ndị ohu ojii ga-eso ndị nwe Cherokee ha na ụzọ Tears. E wezụga Buffalo Soldiers na-enweta medala maka igbu anyị na Nkwupụta Ncheta na-ekwu na ọ bụghị maka anyị "ndị na-emehie". Echere m na nzọụkwụ mbụ nke ncheta bụ ka ndị mmadụ kweta akụkọ ihe mere eme ma ghọta na ọnọdụ anyị bụ nke e guzobere na gara aga. Ọ bụghị nke ahụ siri ike ịghọta, ma ọ na-adị ka ọ bụrụ na ọ bụrụ na ọha mmadụ anyị enweghị ike ịkwado banyere ihe ịhụnanya bụ, anyị agaghị enwekwu nkwenye banyere ihe "nke ziri ezi" pụtara.

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Ike mmadụ bụ akụkụ nke ịbụ ndị a kọrọ.

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