Decolonizing the Colonizer

“Dispelling the illusions and resulting relationships around passive labels of Canadians such as ‘guests’, ‘newcomers’, ‘brothers’, or ‘settlers’. Incorrect labels lead to incorrect relationships. I pursed the point that all of these labels mask the true nature of Canadians; they are occupiers upon our homelands. The labels guests, partners, brothers and newcomers are all pacifist revisionist ways of incorrectly re-constructing the relationship. It starts by ignoring 500 years of genocidal atrocities and refuses to hold Canadians to account for their injustices. The label settler is too historically and politically sterile. Canadians are truly occupiers on our homelands. They need to acknowledge and take responsibility for the colonial crimes that they inherited, they benefit from and continue to impose today.”

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