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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

Me pēhea e whakarapopoto ai koe i te "whakatūpato"? E whakaaro ana au he nui ngā kaipōti e whakaaro ana ki ngā whakawātea nui, e kī ana he nui te kōrero mō te āhua e titiro ana rātou ki te ao. Ki a au, ko te whakatūpato he tikanga ki te whakakore i te pānga o waho me te whakahoki i ā tātou mana, tae atu ki te tikanga. E ai ki te mea, ko te whakahoki i te tikanga he mahi kāore e whai take mēnā kāore e taea e tātou te whakahaere i ā tātou whenua, ā, kei te pā mai tonu te whakangaromanga. Ka noho ngā tiriti kāore e whakatutukihia, kāore hoki e taea te whakatutuki. Ka riro i a Iropi, te U.S. me Kanata te whakangaromia mēnā ka hiahia rātou ki te utu ki ngā hapori i tango rātou i a rātou, i whakamahi rātou i a rātou, i riro rātou i a rātou. I te mea he raru te hanga i tētahi kāwanatanga iwi pēnei i Iharaira, me rapu tātou i tētahi ara i waenganui. He maha ngā pātea kāore e taea te whakahoki, pēnā i te whakairo i te Maunga Rushmore hei whakakino i tētahi wāhi tapu-- nō reira me rapu tātou i tētahi ara ki mua e ngana ana ki te whakatika i ngā hē maha i te wā e kore e hanga i tētahi āhua hou o te hē. E hiahia ana te iwi ki ngā whanaungatanga iwi hei mea māmā pērā i te Pākehā me te pango, engari he tino uaua, he tino rerekē kē atu i tērā. I riro ngā Iwi Taketake i ngā kaipōti Iropi i mua i te kawe mai i ngā Ākau; nāna i riro ngā tāne pango i Ispania ngā Iwi Taketake pērā i ngā pononga pango e whai ana ki te haere ki ngā rangatira Cherokee i te Ara o ngā Tīre. Kāore e taea te kī atu mō ngā Soldiers Buffalo e whakawhiwhi ana i ngā tohu mō te patu i a mātou me te Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga e kī ana kāore e pā ki a mātou "iwi kāore e taea te whakatū". E whakaaro ana au ko te wāhanga tuatahi ki te whakatūpato he mea ki te tango i te hītori me te mōhio ko ā mātou āhuatanga e pā ana ki te wā o mua. Kāore e tino uaua ki te whakakotahi i tō whakaaro ki taua, engari e pērā ana te whakaaro mēnā kāore e taea e tā mātou hapori te whakaae mō te aha te aroha rōmāntika, kāore e taea e mātou te whakaae mō te aha te "whakawhitinga" e pā ana.

Te Whakarōpū i te Whakatūpato

A Boo community for meeting other Decolonization enthusiasts.

Decolonization Community

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