man, i deliberately avoid lawyerese (it makes me feel creepy to read) so i missed this line. see? this is why i dont read this shit. now im angry. the fucking audacity, the real (not a normie's protective ego-husk), true and distilled arrogance one must own to say to their faces that "they kept the place up for us"....hrrrrgh.. agg.... it is so perfect a distillation of the liberal 'civility' i hate with a power beyond my thesaurus.
Yelling at these fucking lanyards wouldn't even work. I can see their blank, wide-eyed faces now, wringing their hands, confused as to where the anger was coming from if someone put them in the place they deserve to be.
Yeah it's actually good to do land acknowledgements, and it's good they're doing one. You should do them too. I hate to break it to you but we're not in a revolutionary phase right now, but a consciousness-raising phase.
Land acknowledgements aren't something dreamed up by white liberals who want to expunge their guilt. They're an indigenous tradition that indigenous radicals (at least where I live) practice when talking between themselves. In the context of asking colonizers to do them it's never been considered enough to just do a land acknowledgement as if by doing so you're purchasing the moral right to continue occupying. It's a destabilizing statement that a) forces the person speaking to know a single gd thing about the indigenous people whose land you occupy and b) acknowledges out loud that the land was taken without permission, which believe it or not is where we're at in terms of convincing settlers that there's actually a problem.
That being said this is a particularly weak land acknowledgement. I've never really seen one that just talks about honouring the people with no explicit attention being drawn to the occupation and its contradictions.
It's good to do land acknowledgements but they come off as extremely hallow platitudes when done by politicians. Reading this almost felt like it had a dismissive tone written by a
pretty remarkable it's the DNC too, not an organization that can't do anything about land policy. the friction everyone's talking about itt is probably perceptible even to libs when its on a federal level
Land acknowledgements like this one seem to be overtly reactionary, talking like indigenous people "stewarded" the land for colonists to just take over once they got here. This sort of "and then the Indians taught the pilgrims how to grow corn" cutesy bullshit is historical revisionism meant to counter what is actually good about land acknowledgement.
Land acknowledgements aren't something dreamed up by white liberals who want to expunge their guilt.
And? Pride parades weren’t dreamed up by weapons corporations and banks, and yet.
I don’t care if crackers acknowledge my problems. It’s worth jack shit. I rather they keep their mouths shut because at least then I wouldn’t want to strangle them when they talk
It's a destabilizing statement
It’s a placating statement. They fear absolutely nothing from these words in their little footnote of an “acknowledgement”
That describes all the white people living around me who aren't Trump supporters -_-"
They don't even disagree with Trump's policies. They just think he's rude. My mom is more upset over the Taylor Swift AI photos than the 100 kids blown up in a school earlier this week.
"Nah, we just want to give our servile base something that makes us look like we care for a couple weeks. Oh, and fuck them Palestinians and their land too"
Funny, my Democratic governor has been the primary roadblock to indigenous sovereignty in my state and continues to fuck them over at every turn she gets. I'm sure they're glad she's there thinking of them though.
The band bought the land, all that Biden seems to have done is some legal shit to put the land into a trust. I think this is just the process of adding those lands officially to the reserve (I could be wrong)
Reading in to this makes me want to go to a protest in DeKalb county as according this NBC news
Many residents who live next to the park oppose the plan, fearing construction of a casino or even a hotel would draw more tourists and lead to a larger, more congested community.
“Myself and my family have put a lot of money and given up a lot to be where we are in a small community and enjoy the park the way that it is,” resident Becky Oest told a House committee in May, asking that the proposal be amended to prohibit construction that would “affect our community. It’s a small town. We don’t want it to grow bigger.”
I'd want to tell them "Land back and I'll go away."