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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

Uko usobanura "gukura mu bihugu"? Numva abimukira benshi batekereza ku kwimura abantu ku bwinshi, ibyo bigaragaza byinshi ku buryo bakiri babona isi. Ku bwanjye, gukura mu bihugu bisobanura kugabanya ingaruka z'ibyo hanze no gusubiza ibyacu, harimo n'umuco. Birumvikana, gusubiza umuco ni igikorwa kidafite icyo kimarira niba tudafite ububasha ku butaka bwacu kandi tukaba tukiri mu bwicanyi. Amasezerano arakomeza kutubahirizwa cyangwa ntashobora kubahirizwa na gato. Uburayi, U.S. na Kanada byakwangirika mu gihe byakagombye kwishyura imiryango byakandagiye, byakoresheje, kandi byibye. Kuko gukora leta y'ubwoko nka Isiraheli nabyo ari ikibazo, tugomba gushaka ahantu hagati. Ibintu byinshi ntibishobora gusubirwamo, nko gukata Mt. Rushmore nk'uburyo bwo kwangiza ahantu h'ibanga-- bityo tugomba gushaka inzira yo gukomeza igamije gukosora amakosa menshi mu gihe tudakora indi shingiro y'ubugome. Abantu bashaka ko imibanire y'ibara ry'uruhu iba yoroshye nka Black na white, ariko birakomeye kandi bifite ibice byinshi kurushaho. Abanyamerika b'ibanze bari barakandamijwe n'abakoloni b'Abanyaburayi mbere y'uko Abanyafurika baza hano; abagabo b'abirabura b'Abanyasipanye bari bafite Abanyamerika b'ibanze nk'uko abacakara b'abirabura bagombaga gukurikira ba nyirabyo b'Abachero ku nzira y'amarira. Ntitwakwibagirwa Abasirikare b'ibikoko bahabwa imidari yo kudutsemba n'Itangazo ry'Ubwigenge rikiri rivuga ko ridakora ku "bantu b'ibikoko". Ntekereza ko intambwe ya mbere yo gukura mu bihugu ari uko abantu bemera amateka kandi bakumva ko ibibazo byacu bishingiye ku bihe byashize. Si ibintu bigoye cyane kubyumva, ariko bisa n'aho niba sosiyete yacu itabasha kumvikana ku byo urukundo rw'ukuri ari, tudashobora kumvikana ku byo "uburinganire" bisobanura.

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