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Human Supremacy is part of being colonized

Boholo ba batho ke karolo ea ho ba lekolone

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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

U hlalosa joang "decolonization"? Ke ikutloa eka baahi ba bangata ba nahana ka ho leleka ka bongata, e bontša haholo ka mokhoa oo ba ntse ba sheba lefatše. Ho nna, decolonizing ho bolela ho fokotsa tšusumetso ea kantle le ho boela re fumane litlhōrō tsa rona, ho kenyelletsa le setso. Ehlile, ho boela re fumane setso ke ketso e se nang thuso haeba re sitwa ho laola naha ea rona 'me re ntse re tšoasoa. Likhetho li ntse li phatlalalitsoe kapa li sitwa ho phethahala. Europe, U.S. le Canada li tla ba le mathata a lichelete haeba li ne li tlameha ho lefa mebuso e li hasitseng, e li sebelisang le e li robang. Ho tloha ha ho thehoa ethnostate joaloka Israel ho boetse ho na le mathata, re tlameha ho fumana tsela e pakeng tsa. Li-bells tse ngata ha li ka ke tsa phatlalatsoa, joalo ka ho etsa Mt. Rushmore e le mokhoa oa ho senya sebaka se halalelang-- kahoo re tlameha ho fumana tsela e etselitsoeng ho leka ho lokisa litlhōrō tse ngata ha re ntse re sa theha mofuta o mocha oa tlōlo ea molao. Batho ba batla hore likamano tsa race e be bonolo joalo ka Black le white, empa ho na le ho feta ho thata le ho hlaka ho feta moo. Ma-America a setso a ile a hasoa ke ba kolone ba Europe pele ho tlisoa Maafrika mona; banna ba Black ba lokolohileng ba Spain ba ne ba na le Ma-America a setso joaloka hore masole a Black a ne a tlameha ho latela bahlokomeli ba bona ba Cherokee ho Trail of Tears. Eseng ho bolela Buffalo Soldiers ba fumanang meputso bakeng sa ho re bolaea le Declaration of Independence e ntse e re bolella hore ha e amanang le rona "barbaric". Ke nahana hore mohato oa pele ho decolonization ke hore batho ba amohele histori le ho utloisisa hore maemo a rona a thehiloe nakong e fetileng. Ha ho thata ho feta ho wrap maikutlo a hao ka moo, empa ho bonahala eka haeba sechaba sa rona se sitwa ho fihlela tumellano ka seo lerato la lerato le leng, re ke ke ra lumela ka seo "tekano" e leng sona.

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