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Indigenous Peoples
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But Palestinians do respond overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Indigenous populations of an entire hemisphere, subjected to the largest genocide in human history, responded overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Black communities in much of the United States, a country that quite simply would not exist in its current form were it not for the theft of their labor, responded overwhelmingly with love. Just as every people everywhere deemed acceptable collateral in service of the empire’s interest
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― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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It's been a relief to not have to fight so hard
for at least a large group of us to question
the old orthodoxy.
Now many of us celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day,
no matter if the government takes the legal designation away.
I see it as a day to learn more about the people whose land we stole
(yes, even we whose forebearers came more recently,
because we continue to benefit from the theft),
and to sit in the complexity that is the building
and continuation of
our civilization.
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