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Colonization took away so much more than land and resources. It took away identity, tradition, rituals, names, history
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@DrAnnLopez
Prof Educational Leadership & Policy. Driven by spirit of my ancestors. Anti racist and anti-colonial education. Director @CLD_Leadership. Views mine🇨🇦🇯🇲
- The atrocities of King Leopold in the Congo has not been given far enough attentionI can never bring myself to forgiving European colonialist for the atrocities they caused in Africa. These are poor Congolese having their limbs amputated for failing to meet their rubber quotas. The world's talks about Nazis Germany, but never about these.
- The dehumanization of people must not be normalized. The genocide in Gaza must end. Genocide in Sudan and Congo must end.Elderly Palestinian man desperately searching for drinkable water for his family in Gaza.
- White Namibians, who are descendants of colonizers from Germany and South Africa make up 6% of the population, own 70% of the land in Namibia Colonization is ongoing.
- Still hearing about teachers not allowing students to go the bathroom when they ask. It’s power, control, & oppressive. If you are doing this, please stop.
- University of Ottawa doctor reinstated after suspension for pro-Palestinian posts says he won't go back. Complaints said he used “apartheid” & “settler colonialism” in posts. His research has focused on Indigenous health, anti-racism and decolonization.
- King Leopold II of Belgium engaged in colonial genocide and killed 10 million Congolese people. This genocide is not taught in curriculum & it must be. Students are hardly aware of it.
- The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin
- Decolonization started the moment colonizers arrived. Our ancestors resisted. It did not start with theorizing by academics at universities
- Adopting a Black child or marrying a Black person does not make one antiracist
- People who lack empathy should not be in positions of leadership.
- Replying to @yasharHe fired her because she is Black and he just cannot imagine a Black woman smart and capable.
- Replying to @PaperWhispersIf he was more involved he would know this is school policy pretty much every where. Can you imagine what would happen if she dismissed that child to the wrong person.
