Natives got conquered and literally almost wiped off the face of the planet, why do these clowns want to claim them so badly
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Internalized anti-Blackness through
anti-Africanness.
You see, we all recognize Dominicans having the
“mi no Black”
form of internalized anti-Blackness.
But PretIndians talkin bout
“we wuz Indians” are a result of the same internalized anti-Blackness, just manifested differently.
Manifested as a denial of being of Central and West African descent in the Americas, as a RESULT of the trans-Atlantic Slavetrade
and claiming indigenous American identity instead.
All of us have internalized anti-Blackness,
because ALL of us suffered from violent Western colonialism.
To be Black is a result of AFRICANS being seen as lesser than
by White ppl / Europeans, no matter where we were at.
Those of us that separate being Black from being African,
to adopt Indigenous American identity and deny being of African descent in the Americas BECAUSE of the
trans-Atlantic Slavetrade..
Have internalized anti-Blackness as a result of shame of Africanness and the Ancestral experience of enslavement by white ppl.
Anti-Blackness is something that manifests itself in many ways.
Everybody in the African Diaspora suffers from it, nobody is exempt.
To not accept this as an objective truth is to be in denial of the severity and the scale of violent anti-Blackness through colonialism and its lingering impact on the
African Diaspora.
We ALL have internalized anti-Blackness to point at and see when one understands in detail how it manifests itself.