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We Are Colonized Citizens
As the world is busy letting out a giant sigh of relief that Donald Trump has appeared to lose the presidential election, we, the victims of colonial terror must be careful. Be careful that the world doesn’t look away and continue to allow the human rights violations occurring everyday due to this fascist colonial government to be swept away under the guise of “returning to normal.” We must be careful to study history and understand the spike in white vigilantism that is likely to occur without any sort of protection from a colonial government. We must be careful to understand we are still a colonized people in a world colonized by evil imperial capitalists. As a history teacher I teach about colonizers and colonial governments all the time, and never have I once found that a group of colonizers were not a fascist regime. From the Continent to Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba, even all the way to Guåhan in the Pacific, every single time colonizers come they have the same routine and the same MO — colonial forces occupy the land and use violence to keep the people subjugated.
To understand how colonial forces work first we must examine some language around colonizers and occupation. Occupation is “the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force.” Thanks to military propaganda we know what occupation looks like in other countries: we see military bases, soldiers patrolling…
