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Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

Človeška nadvlada je del kolonizacije

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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

Kako definirate "dekolonizacijo"? Veliko naseljenikov si predstavlja množične deportacije, kar veliko pove o tem, kako še vedno dojemajo svet. Zame dekolonizacija pomeni odmik od zunanjih vplivov in ponovno prevzemanje naših pravic ob rojstvu, vključno s tradicijo. Seveda je ponovno prevzemanje tradicije prazna gesta, če nimamo nadzora nad našo zemljo in še vedno doživljamo genocid. Pogodbe ostajajo kršene ali popolnoma neizpolnjene. Evropa, ZDA in Kanada bi bankrotirale, če bi dejansko morale plačati skupnostim, ki so jih sužnjele, izkoriščale in od njih kradle. Ker je ustvarjanje etnične države, kot je Izrael, prav tako problematično, moramo najti srednjo pot. Preveč zvonov ne moremo več utišati, kot je izklesavanje Mt. Rushmore kot način oskrunjenja svetega kraja - zato moramo najti pot naprej, ki poskuša popraviti številne krivice, hkrati pa ne ustvariti nove oblike krivice. Ljudje želijo, da so odnosi med rasami tako preprosti kot črni in beli, vendar je to veliko bolj zapleteno in niansirano. Prvotni Američani so bili sužnji evropskih kolonizatorjev, preden so Afričani prišli sem; svobodni črni moški iz Španije so imeli v lasti prvotne Američane, prav tako kot so morali črni sužnji spremljati svoje cherokejske gospodarje na Potu solza. Da ne omenjam Buffalo Soldiers, ki so dobivali medalje za ubijanje nas in Deklaracija neodvisnosti še vedno pravi, da ne velja za nas "divjake". Mislim, da je prvi korak k dekolonizaciji, da ljudje sprejmejo zgodovino in razumejo, da so naše okoliščine zakoreninjene v preteklosti. Ni res tako zapleteno, da bi to razumeli, vendar se zdi, da če se naša družba ne more dogovoriti o tem, kaj je romantična ljubezen, se nikoli ne bomo strinjali o tem, kaj pomeni "enakost".

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