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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

Kumaha anjeun nangtukeun "dekolonisasi"? Kuring ngarasa loba panyukuran ngabayangkeun deportasi massal, anu nyarios seueur ngeunaan kumaha aranjeunna masih ningali dunya. Pikeun kuring, dekolonisasi hartosna ngaleungitkeun pangaruh luar sareng ngarebut hak lahir urang, kalebet tradisi. Tangtosna, ngarebut tradisi mangrupikeun gerakan kosong upami urang teu gaduh kontrol kana tanah urang sareng masih ngalaman genosida. Perjanjian tetep dilanggar atanapi henteu dilaksanakeun. Éropa, AS & Kanada bakal bangkrut upami aranjeunna leres-leres kedah mayar ka komunitas anu parantos aranjeunna perbudak, eksploitasi sareng nyolong. Saprak nyiptakeun nagara etnis sapertos Israel ogé masalah, urang kedah mendakan titik tengah. Teu seueur lonceng anu tiasa diulang, sapertos ngukir Mt. Rushmore salaku cara pikeun ngarusak situs suci-- janten urang kedah mendakan cara maju anu nyobian ngalereskeun seueur kasalahan tanpa nyiptakeun sababaraha bentuk kajahatan anyar. Jalma-jalma hoyong hubungan ras janten saderhana sapertos Hideung sareng bodas, tapi éta langkung rumit sareng nuansa tibatan éta. Penduduk asli Amérika parantos diperdagangkan ku kolonialis Éropa sateuacan Afrika dibawa ka dieu; lalaki Hideung bébas ti Spanyol gaduh Penduduk Asli Amérika sapertos budak Hideung anu kedah ngiringan tuan Cherokee na dina Trail of Tears. Teu nyebatkeun Buffalo Soldiers anu nampi medali pikeun ngabunuh kami sareng Deklarasi Kamerdikaan anu masih nyarios yén éta henteu berlaku pikeun kami "savage". Kuring rasa léngkah munggaran pikeun dekolonisasi nyaéta pikeun jalma-jalma nampa sajarah sareng ngartos yén kaayaan urang akar dina masa lalu. Éta henteu leres-leres rumit pikeun ngagulung pikiran anjeun ngeunaan éta, tapi sigana upami masarakat urang henteu tiasa sasarengan ngeunaan naon cinta romantis, urang moal kantos satuju ngeunaan naon hartosna "kasetaraan".

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