Dear ‘Racism doesn’t exist’ and ‘can’t we just stop making it about race’ tribe
In the 1500’s europeans (that place all white people derived from) set force one of the most major events in human history: colonialism
The aim was what we live in their succession of global power.
The original people of earth were African and had self-sustaining relationships with our eco-system, this was embodied in their spirituality.
So, one of the greatest documented ways colonists tore them down was by forcing mass faith conversion using brutal missionaries to force them onto their religion, they created bibles that reflected whatever they hope to condition indigenous people with, such as the ‘negro bible’ that taught black people to think being a slave was an expectation of god
They stole indigenous children and put them into conversion schools where they were forced to reject and demonise their culture, burn their traditional attire, walk, talk, think and pray just as the white man instructed. These schools were known for perverse sadistic sexual abuse also.
These colonists also outlawed all things indigenous such as working with other species like plants as if equal. They introduced instead a scientific determinism that along with their religion taught the human as the most intelligent (despite all knowledge only being gathered by our senses and humans only having select senses to pick up select information that can not account for all the other species), this meant all indigeioun practices that dealt with what could not be seen such as imagination, dreams, communication via art etc were demonised or dealt with by being belittled to as hobbies only the rich could afford to play with, they also forced a two-gender system so that the nuclear family could be replicated everywhere: Man catered to by woman and child, made heterosexuality law the list goes on…
Whats interesting is, all these years later and we are only just coming to question why, European languages are globalised like no other, pharmacies are still the floablly accepted way of getting better with drugs we barely know the contents of, gathering and making herbs to heal is still demonised and access to the lands to do them still restricted (before europeans stole whole continents the indigenous people saw land as free to all, which is why they let colonisers settle and were shocked when those colonisers then built fences and banned them), the two-gender system is enforced in many ways globally, tribal clothes are seen as inappropriate, sexualities are still labelled to the point of needing to come out and in some places still outlawed, over 90 percent of the movies we see have white people as the leads, schools are still formed in the european style of cold science it’s seen as strange to have education round fire pits under stars, the richest families in the world holding the most power are still white, and America which was stolen during colonisation by the europeans is still being run by them and they have the audacity to call themselves American because they have manged to sit on stolen land for so long, there are still statues and major holidays globally that honour the racists who stole indigenous culture, land, children and raped, murdered, enslaved them again I could go on
Perhaps racism could end when some of those things start changing. Doesn’t take a genius to look at that (incomplete) list to realise we are still a long way off.
(At some point i will come back to this and add things to help people even further like where to locate information for themselves to not end up being racist out of sheer ignorance but for now this shall suffice. Its night and I’m yet again exasperated by seeing white people say ‘can’t we stop making things about race’ so this is also a vent post for me.
As always take care and please regardless of who you are and how much you know or do not know. Knowledge is endless, inspect everything as far as you are able to, especially if its a subject you speak or act on.
f e e l i n g, SPIRIT 