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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

"Söweşden gaçmak" diýeniňi nädip kesgitlärsiň? Men köp ýerleşenleriň köpçülikleýin göçürmeleri göz öňünde tutýandygyny duýýaryn, bu bolsa olaryň dünýäni nähili görýändigi barada köp zat aýdýar. Meniň üçin, kolonizasiýany kesgitlemek, daşarky täsirleri merkezden aýyrmak we gelinliklerimizi, şol sanda däp-dessurlarymyzy gaýtadan eýelemekdir. Elbetde, däp-dessurlary gaýtadan eýelemek, ýerimize gözegçilik etmesek we halaşan genocide bilen ýüzbe-ýüz bolmasak, boş hereketdir. Ylalaşyklary bozulyp galýar ýa-da doly ýerine ýetirilmeýär. Ýewropa, ABŞ we Kanadanyň özlerini kölelikde, peýdalanmakda we ogurlamakda günäli bolan jemgyýetlere hakykatdanam töleg bermek zerur bolsa, bankrot bolardy. Ysraýyl ýaly etnosöweş döretmek hem mesele, şonuň üçin ortaça bir ýol tapmalydyrys. Şuňa meňzeş köp zyňylmaýar, Mt. Rushmore'yi mukaddes ýeri ýaramazlaşdyrmak üçin kesmek ýaly-- şonuň üçin birnäçe ýalňyşlygy düzetmäge synanyşýan we täze bir adalatsyzlyk döretmeýän bir ýol tapmalydyrys. Adamlar race gatnaşyklarynyň gara we ak ýaly ýönekeý bolmagyny isleýärler, ýöne bu has çylşyrymly we inçelikli. Amerikanyň ýerli ilatyny ýewropa kolonizatorlary, afrikalylaryň bu ýere getirilmezinden öň kölelikde saklady; Ispaniýadan gelen erkin gara adamlar Amerikanyň ýerli ilatyny eýeledi, gara köleler bolsa Cherokee eýeleri bilen Tears ýolunda gitmeli boldy. Buffalo Soldatlarynyň bizi öldürmek üçin medal almagy we Garaşsyzlyk Bäşligiň henizem "savage" diýmek bilen baglanyşyklydygyny aýtmakdan gaçmaýaryn. Meniň pikirimçe, kolonizasiýa üçin ilkinji ädim, adamlaryň taryhy kabul etmegi we ýagdaýlarymyzyň geçmişe baglydygyny düşünmekdir. Muny düşünmek üçin gaty çylşyrymly däl, ýöne jemgyýetimiziň romantik söýgi barada ylalaşyp bilmeýän bolsa, "eşitlik" diýeniň näme diýýändigine hiç wagt ylalaşyp bilmeris.

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