Assuming that whites are entitled to “become” Indigenous through being an ally is incredibly problematic though.
I mean this gently but I think you need to learn about colonization a lot more broadly. Fanon is a product of his time. I’d encourage you to look at South Africa, India, Zimbabwe, and also pay some attention to contemporary Indigenous activism in settler majority countries where there is often an appetite for separate sovereignty.
Thanks for answering but this isn’t very clear.I understand you don’t want co-governance, you want Indigenous Sovereignty - but you also want to get to put limits on that sovereignty.
to ultimately live side-by-side with indigenous people as equals.
You seem to want to make Indigenous people give whites and other groups use of the land, water, and other resources.
But under that plan, Indigenous people would also have to be responsible for hosting them and all the labour of governance. They wouldn’t get to evict them.
I wonder what your reaction is to any Indigenous people who would be against limitations to their sovereignty.
I ENJOY pontificating about words. It’s my happy place!
I was not trying to taunt you or insult you, friend.
But it sounds like you’re not really in a head space right now where you can enjoy this conversation. I can respect that. Peace.
Nothing I said was about you. Why would I “call you out”?
This isn’t fight club it’s the fediverse. You need to chill.
I didn’t think you intended it as such, and am not “accusing” you of anything.
I was simply making an observational comment about how that word is commonly used in the west. You yourself said it’s not the best word.
Plenty of vernacular expressions have their roots in racism and other inequality, and are used by media to support heirarchies and disguise inequality.
It doesn’t hurt to be mindful of that or to question our unwitting reinforcement of these ideas. For example a few years ago we saw UK “expats” voting for brexit to keep out “migrants”. A little more mindfulness might have meant a little less voting for leopards to eat faces.
“Expat” is what people from wealthy countries use because applying terms like “migrant” to themselves make them feel uncomfortable.
It’s a subtle form of racism / classism.
I’m very curious about what you would like to see happen.
Do you want to deport all black people to Africa and all white people to Europe, or are you presuming that Indigenous would freely decide to host all of you on their land indefinitely?
I left this comment of yours in my inbox for a long time, because I wasn’t sure where to begin.
I think the best advice I can give you is to talk to actual people who are living anticolonialist struggle. There is no such thing as a “brown people seal of endorsement” that you can give white people, even if you find one in a book.
In cases where activists demand total exodus of white allies, you have to either unconditionally accept this, or else come to terms with the fact that your support of decolonializing, re-indigenization, and sovereignty is actually conditional on Indigenous agreeing with you.