I’m reminded of the famous passage from Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism: (Trigger warning for colonial and sexual violence)
MUST WATCH: On CNN, Fareed Zakaria interviews Mustafa Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative x.com/davidrkadler...
We who are from global south/colonized nations have been asking nicely for decades. Please start treating us like humans, do justice for all that you have taken from us. Please make amends and help repair our communities your ancestors looted. You tend not to listen when we are just asking nicely.
Good morning to all the Americans and Canadians and British and Europeans just now waking up to human violence. There are people in most of the rest of the world that your countries have been destroying for decades. I guess it's about time you woke up and smelled the coffee too.
"Israelis were having a rave near where the apartheid regime has created the world's largest open-air prison, torturing and killing its population with 1 million children. They were partying, getting high, dancing to techno without a care in the world near a concentration camp" x.com/zei_squirrel...
Now that the initial wave of both-sidesm and Israel defending has receded (but ever present) now we have to deal with the more insidious "Stop celebrating violence." This is the real test of valuing decolonialism. Did you think it would be pretty? Nobody is "celebrating" the horrors of war. 1/3
Decolonialism is a violent process cause it must dismantle a system built on genocide. This won't be pretty, & we have to hope for it to take the path of least resistance. But everyone finger wagging so far has been almost exclusively a settler who has never experienced what the colonized have 2/3
If you're concerned about the actions of Palestine towards its liberation, you can ally with Indigenous decolonial groups at home. You can MATERIALLY minimize the violence of decolonization WHERE YOU ARE NOW. If you're against decolonial violence, be MORE against colonial violence. Otherwise shut up