The first British settlement of the “New World” (an extension King James I) was on its last leg when John Rolfe’s kidnapped-marriage to Pocahontas resulted in the ability to plant tobacco and create mercantile that resulted in all sorts of continued settler-plunder.
so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen
who knew a white guy could be capable of such an iconic response, he knows what’s up and is having none of that shit, every other white guy take notes tbh
I love that he said Pakeha
Can someone write what its being said in this?
Male co-host: We have had a whole heap of feedback regarding
Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis’s proposal to institute a prison run on Māori
values into New Zealand. He’s looking at potentially establishing this prison
up north. It isn’t Labour policy just yet, it’s just an idea of Kelvin Davis’s.
And this has been really really divisive on our Facebook page this morning. (sarcastically)
Here I think we have the single greatest email, the single greatest message we
have ever had on breakfast.
(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m
sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live
in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them
to it.”
Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That
is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they
were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned
up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant
insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“
Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you
just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk.
Just when you thought-“
Male co-host: (mimicking letter) “’Put them all on an
island, leave them to it.’ Yeah. What a great idea that is Janice.
I really need “What a great idea that is, Janice.” to be a meme filled with those stupid complete cognitive dissonance bigoted statements.
Seen in the window at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine.
Photo: Bill Roorbach
Hmm. How about erase the colonial view that the Americas were simply available, undeveloped, uncultivated lands before the arrival of white settlers. Indigenous people live(d) on that land, engineered it, and had highly complex interactions with it. Large-scale environmental destabilization, deforestation, and pollution as we know to did not begin until the period of settler colonialism. Capitalist exploitation continues to destroy the land and the indigenous peoples on that land. Maine, for example, did have set territories of indigenous communities (Miqmaq, penobscot, etc.). Modern borders of settler nation-states do not correspond to these original territorial bounds.
What I’m saying is that people need to stop thinking that human occupation is responsible for the disastrous environmental situation we have today. There are specific cultural views of land, land use, and production that cause it. These views are not universal to human societies. Indigenous communities are more than capable of occupying land without laying waste to it, and did so for thousands of years.
All of the above, plus wtf @ the bizarre implication that a huge chunk of North America was homogenous New England-style forest, and not a tremendous diversity of vegetation well suited to their respective climates! Loving nature is not a replacement for thinking critically about how colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism have shaped how you conceive of wilderness, humanity, and the relationships between them!
throwing some stuff out:
european colonial settlers marveled out how the trees were conveniently wide apart enough for humans to travel through easily and all the fruits conveniently grew along these ‘natural’ paths.
at the same time, they wrote journals about how when approaching the american east coast, the skies above the forests were often black with smoke, without connecting the controlled wildfires to how humanly convenient the forests were
the amazon is as human-made as it is ‘natural’. we have evidence of its cultivation, with indigenous folk building islands of rich soil to stand over flooding waters, like the chinampas of aztec agriculture. we no longer have the knowledge to recreate terra preta, which is the uniquely rich soil created by indigenous agriculture that makes cultivation possible in the amazon
maize and potato, two crops that basically saved europe from starvation, are the result of long artificial selection by central and south americans
the idea that indigenous peoples did not cultivate the land or act upon it was a way of removing their agency and history and justifying the seizure of their land from them. adam smith wrote that the americans were hunters with no agriculture because the small maize plots they grew did not count (???) vs the advanced economy of britain
I KNOW WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY, but i need you all to educate yourselves on something that is going on at the moment.
if you’re in the uk, i am sure you have heard of what is called the WINDRUSH GENERATION, but for those abroad essentially it is this: a group of people from the british commonwealth who moved here legally have had their records lost / destroyed (to be determined) and a number of those people have been detained / not been able to be let back into the country after being abroad. there are threats of deportation flying, a man has his access to vital medicine on the NHS removed. like i said, these people are people who moved here when free immigration was legal, prior to 1971, and a lot of them LEGALLY on their parent’s passports (as was the system here) meaning a lot of them have no papers in their name. primarily, the people are black caribbean.
here’s the scary part, and why i am posting, my family are a part of this generation. my papi has lived her since he was 7 months old. while my mammy is jamaican born and bred, my papi never lived in his homeland, and he could lose his right to work, his right to the NHS, his right to live here, all because the home office lost papers, and his were in his parents name. now, yes, there have been A LOT of promises made in parliament, and i know theresa may is saying nothing will happen to these people and cases of discrimination against rightful british citizens will be negated by the government but 1) MAY HAS A TRACK RECORD OF BEING ANTI-IMMIGRATION and 2) because the government lost the only things proving when people like my papi moved here, we can’t prove they are rightful british citizens.
so what am i asking????
first, educate yourselves, please. you can read some more in depth pieces about this through these links: X, X, X, X– mentions of death in this one, VIDEO HERE.
second, if you are in the UK, please please please please LOBBY YOUR MP’S. you have a voice, we have a voice. send letters, call them, email them, tweet them, facebook them. create a stir. we are the people and we will not stand for some britons being treated better than others.
third, if you are not from the UK —– share our voices. seek us out, we are speaking, use your power to make us louder.
forth, PLEASE, if you read nothing else i link, read this. please, i beg you. listen to the stories of people like my father. listen to the windrush generation. hear their voices.
i know tumblr is america centric and i get it, honestly, i do. but i am british-carribean before i am here for any of you and i am begging you, don’t let us be silenced.
It’s set to be debated on the 30th of April, so this is the perfect time to lobby MPs.
There’s a lot to read on twitter under the tag #windrushjustice, and anyone anywhere can use that hashtag; if you’re overseas, the best person to tweet might be Theresa May – @theresa_may
I KNOW WHAT I SAID YESTERDAY, but i need you all to educate yourselves on something that is going on at the moment.
if you’re in the uk, i am sure you have heard of what is called the WINDRUSH GENERATION, but for those abroad essentially it is this: a group of people from the british commonwealth who moved here legally have had their records lost / destroyed (to be determined) and a number of those people have been detained / not been able to be let back into the country after being abroad. there are threats of deportation flying, a man has his access to vital medicine on the NHS removed. like i said, these people are people who moved here when free immigration was legal, prior to 1971, and a lot of them LEGALLY on their parent’s passports (as was the system here) meaning a lot of them have no papers in their name. primarily, the people are black caribbean.
here’s the scary part, and why i am posting, my family are a part of this generation. my papi has lived her since he was 7 months old. while my mammy is jamaican born and bred, my papi never lived in his homeland, and he could lose his right to work, his right to the NHS, his right to live here, all because the home office lost papers, and his were in his parents name. now, yes, there have been A LOT of promises made in parliament, and i know theresa may is saying nothing will happen to these people and cases of discrimination against rightful british citizens will be negated by the government but 1) MAY HAS A TRACK RECORD OF BEING ANTI-IMMIGRATION and 2) because the government lost the only things proving when people like my papi moved here, we can’t prove they are rightful british citizens.
so what am i asking????
first, educate yourselves, please. you can read some more in depth pieces about this through these links: X, X, X, X– mentions of death in this one, VIDEO HERE.
second, if you are in the UK, please please please please LOBBY YOUR MP’S. you have a voice, we have a voice. send letters, call them, email them, tweet them, facebook them. create a stir. we are the people and we will not stand for some britons being treated better than others.
third, if you are not from the UK —– share our voices. seek us out, we are speaking, use your power to make us louder.
forth, PLEASE, if you read nothing else i link, read this. please, i beg you. listen to the stories of people like my father. listen to the windrush generation. hear their voices.
i know tumblr is america centric and i get it, honestly, i do. but i am british-carribean before i am here for any of you and i am begging you, don’t let us be silenced.
That’s also just about the same explanation as the Devil, in context, for “stuff I have no other real framework to understand or develop stories about”.
Not that I would actually expect much unusual to happen if I went there, but let’s just say that European mythological beings would not feature in even the 5th possible explanatory story springing to mind. (Counting assorted versions of that old standby, The Devil, in that category too.)
I realize that appealing stories are the intention there, and this is another case where I’m not even wanting to single anybody out–because it is such a common type of thing.
But, that makes another example even more disturbing, in a way. Few settlers seem to even consider some implications, or why some things might not always go over well. Just one relatively small illustration.
Antiamericanism is good. smug Europeans who denigrate American in order to presume their own nations are not equally complicit in colonialism and imperialist violence are bad.
???? our own nations aren’t complicit in colonialism n imperialist violence, and that’s WHY we look down on america?????
I mean… I mean… America??? as it is now??? is a RESULT of european colonialism??? like its a literal colony of Europe??? with indigenous people
somehow
being a minority??? what the fuck are you talking about @ass-th-etic
I also have to add that targeting individuals for hostility–rather than the actual harmful systems–for a cheap shot ego boost is just obnoxious. Also unfortunately par for the course with a certain type of smug person.
I’m starting to notice that when white trans people talk about decolonizing transgender they mostly talk about the many pre-colonial genders that once existed, describing them in a fascinated-but-unemotional anthropological style and engaging very little with the modern reality of trans people of color aroound the world.
Whereas when trans people of color talk about decolonizing transgender they talk about the personal struggle of finding your identity in a world where 99.9% of the material that’s supposed to be for you is written assuming a white western gender identity and every time someone asks you how you identify you’re forced to choose between doing hours of education work or naming a white western gender identity and if you try to explain yourself to your family they may start seeing you as a westernized other because the knowledge they once had to accept and honor you has been destroyed by the white man.
So I feel a bit queezy when I see a lot of those anthropological style “did you know some cultures have 5 genders!” articles that do not acknowledge the pain and trauma of colonialism in any way. There’s something there that turns the lives and genders of people of color into entertainment, amusing ‘did you knows’ with the pretence of progressiveness.
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