African Americans who are descended from slaves aren't "settlers." end of discussion. we stole nothing. we weren't indentured servants. we ain't emigrate here. our ancestors were forcibly removed from their native lands, which were also colonized. we're refugees, we're displaced. https://twitter.com/Kamikaze_Asil/status/1380081828485337088

our histories are intertwined & eventually y'all will need to address that in these land back conversations. that, the colonial idea of land ownership, & possible reparations for nonwhite peoples who were abused and still experience racial violence at the hands of white settlers.

the ahistorical audacity of y'all to call the descendants of slaves settlers but y'all be closed mouthed af when it comes to the fact that some of your ancestors owned slaves & illegally signed over y'all's land rights to colonizers. even tho those same colonizers enslaved y'all.

stop playing in our faces. this history is more complicated that y'all make our seem in here and that's why i don't engage in the performativity by putting the name of native lands in my bio. what y'all gonna do about the white folks if y'all get the land back?

i don't see the issue of white settlers eternal presence & landlorship every being addressed in these conversations, but i see a lot of claims that Black folks are "settlers." it's easier to target us than to address the people who stole & murdered y'all's ancestors in the first.

i been watching this quietly for years. but I've been reading all this history to try to see how we can move the conversation forward btwn Black liberation projects and "land back" initiatives. there is nary a mention on what would need to happen if white folks said no.

currently this country is ~70% white. because they are killing us. been killing us. are y'all gonna wait till 2050 when they swear the future is beige? where y'all gonna send the Black folks? back to west Africa, which is also colonized? we have no home apparently.

we're "settlers" here & "settlers" in our ancestral lands. when we hear the word "indigenous" we know it never means us, or our African siblings. because we gotta put "African indigenous" to qualify it. everywhere we look indigenous people are "brown." we are unwanted adoptees.

let us know when y'all figure out what to say to these white people who own most of y'all's ancestral land. till then, us refugees, us disposable, displaced negroes is gonna keep fighting to survive, just like y'all. boarding schools, mass incarceration, etc, we in the same boat.

landlordship*
ever*

you can't discuss "erasure" without discussing the erasure of Black, Asian, and immigrant histories in this country. who created the borders? colonized India, Africa, & Hong Kong? who drove "Mexicans" out of the west? was it us? https://twitter.com/thotscholar/status/1380214841537875972?s=19

our lands were renamed too. wars started and maintained over oil and drugs & resources. this is a global issue. the fact that brown people make up a majority of the global population yet consume the least amount of resources isn't a coincidence. "overpopulated." forced diasporas.

solution not as easy as it seems.

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