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When I use the term colonizer, I refer only to those who take pride in colonial exploits, and not to those accountable human beings who happen to descend from colonial ancestors. Colonialism is the enemy, it has nothing to do with skin or ancestry. As long as you stand true on ethics of equality and mettle of character, rather than boasting pedigree and archaic tradition, you are a champion of humanity, no matter your ethnicity, ancestry, profession or status.
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― Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
― Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
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Before I set out on my road trip, I already knew this: the reason we have any national park is the same reason we have any land in America at all. White settlers and the United States government violently dispossessed Indigenous people of the land they had lived on for thousands of years, which they knew deeply and to which they had spiritual connection.
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― America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
― America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled