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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

Bawo ni o ṣe n ṣe alaye "iṣedede"? Mo ni iriri pe ọpọlọpọ awọn olugbe n ronu nipa gbigbe awọn eniyan ni ibè, eyi ti o sọ pupọ nipa bi wọn ṣe n wo agbaye. Fun mi, iṣedede tumọ si dida aiyé ti ipa ita ati gbigba awọn ẹtọ ibimọ wa, pẹlu aṣa. Dajudaju, gbigba aṣa jẹ iṣe ofo ti a ko ba ni iṣakoso lori ilẹ wa ati pe a ṣi n ni iriri ẹjẹ. Awọn adehun wa ni ibajẹ tabi patapata ko ni ipari. Yuroopu, U.S. & Kanada yoo jẹ alaini owo ti wọn ba ni lati sanwo fun awọn agbegbe ti wọn ti enslaved, exploited ati ji lati ọdọ. Niwọn igba ti ṣiṣẹda ipinlẹ ẹlẹya bi Israeli tun jẹ iṣoro, a ni lati wa aaye aarin. Ọpọlọpọ awọn ikọlu ko le yọ, bi gige Mt. Rushmore gẹgẹbi ọna ti dida aaye mimọ-- nitorina a ni lati wa ọna siwaju ti o n gbiyanju lati tọpinpin ọpọlọpọ awọn aṣiṣe lakoko ti ko tun ṣẹda iru irufin tuntun kan. Awọn eniyan fẹ ki ibasepọ ẹjẹ jẹ bi o ṣe rọrun bi Dudu ati funfun, ṣugbọn o jẹ pupọ diẹ sii ti o nira ati ti o ni itumọ ju iyẹn lọ. Awọn ọmọde abinibi Amẹrika ni a ti enslaved nipasẹ awọn olugbe Yuroopu ṣaaju ki awọn Afirika to wa nibi; awọn ọkunrin Dudu ti o ni ominira lati Spain ni awọn ọmọde abinibi Amẹrika gẹgẹ bi awọn ẹrú Dudu ti ni lati ba awọn oluwa Cherokee wọn lọ lori Ọna Ẹjẹ. Kii ṣe lati darukọ awọn ọmọ ogun Buffalo ti n gba awọn ẹbun fun pa wa ati Ikede ominira ṣi n sọ pe ko kan wa "awọn ẹlẹgan". Mo ro pe igbesẹ akọkọ si iṣedede ni fun awọn eniyan lati gba itan ati lati ni oye pe awọn ipo wa ti wa ni ipilẹ ni igba atijọ. Ko ṣe pataki pupọ lati ni irọrun ni ayika iyẹn, ṣugbọn o dabi pe ti awujọ wa ko ba le wa ni adehun nipa ohun ti ifẹ aladun jẹ, a ko ni gba ni ibamu si ohun ti "iṣedede" tumọ si.

Itumọ Iṣedede

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Decolonization Community

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