Is Colonial Black, the New White?

{This post was wrtitten mainly for our southern neighbors and just prior to Indigenous Peoples speaking out in canada nearly as loud as the BLM movement in the U.S and before NDP Jagmeet Singh's awsome speech on systemic racism. thanx Jagmeet! But BLM still has a long way to go in respecting the Indigenous People's narrative. And keep in mind... our BLACK guests to this continent racially target and oppress Indigenous People just as much as, our white oppressor}

Why is it that everyone RARELY ever mentions Indigenous Peoples and the racial targeting thereof.  Well that's just how it works...

 Hush hush on the colonial on Indigenous violence, but if it was any colonial citizen or prospective colonial citizen being targeted, then of course canadians/americans would be all up in arms. Watching some of the BLM rallies of recent, many of them have absolutely no respect for the Indigenous genocide that took place here or even the undeniable fact, that EVEN IN THE U.S, Indigenous People are killed by police at higher rates than any other demographic INCLUDING blacks, but are just not reported or covered by the media.

One black fellow at an anti-racism rally totally cut off an Indigenous woman who tried to represent the Indigenous perspective. He kept interrupting her as she tried to speak saying "ok, ok, alright..." trying to get her off the mic. And even though he did say after "our black and brown, lives"... it was too late, it was clear in his voice and actions he, and as I can attest to many others as well, black anti-racism advocates don't give a shit about Indigenous lives even though they might concede a shout-out once in a while. 

The Indigenous woman was left standing there, with others in the crowd chastising her, apologetic for trying to defend her right to speak for her own people, on her own land, about the Truth that colonial black lives matter more than Indigenous Peoples Lives!!! 

The following is an excerpt from an article from 2016 but most un-shockingly, is that as usual, I myself cannot find any statistics for "Native Americans". And don't you be thinking we are listed under the "other" categories in america cuz most times, we are not. AMERICANS DON'T INCLUDE US INTO MOST OF THEIR STATISTICS, which is why you see black folks always representing higher negatively in and around the discourse of social justice instead of the Indigenous People…

“The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans, followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites and Asian Americans,” according to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected between 1999 and 2011 shows that Native Americans, who are 0.8 percent of the United States population, comprise 1.9 percent of police killings. They are 3.1 times more likely to be killed by police than whites. (Law enforcement kills African Americans at 2.8 times the rate of whites.)

What about all the Indigenous people who were killed by police just in the recent weeks, yet the majority focus and sympathy lies towards black lives. This even in light of the fact Indigenous People are racially targeted and oppressed by black colonists & settlers just as much as whites. 

Fuck the slogan "black lives matter" Because #AllLifeMatters, and they have their own homelands they can return to. I am sick of Indigenous, animal, plant and microbial life being pushed to the damn margins for a People who is just as oppressive to the Indigenous Peoples and our land, as any other colonial group/corporation/demographic. Ya they're being killed by police at high rates in the U.S, but not as much as Indigenous People. They are also much higher on the social stratification ladder than my people, BY FAR!  And from my experience of many anti-racism discussions and initiatives over the years, aside from the systemic oppression, many simply want equal access to the same environmentally destructive rights and privileges the white-man has...  and the majority don't give a shit about my People or our causes unless it's a rally they can shout... BLM! 

And I know there are some BLM groups upholding and respecting Indigenous rights and our people, but WAY too many are not. It's just as what Mahamad Accord told me when he chimed in on a social justice group E-mail with contentions between me and a black disabilty community advocate who tried to shut down my voicing the very contents in this blog post, calling me anti-black and a xenophobe. This is a portion of what he said... "I was the first person who started BLM but I don't go to their ralies because of the same issues that you mentioned in your email.  Remember that the Blacks in Canada aren't monolithic when it comes to their specific issues and the solutions." 

And this is exactly what I am speaking to, not all, but many black colonists thinking they have a right to run roughsot over my people and to this land just because of their own history with the colonial mindset of oppression, the very same mindset many of them are perpetrtating against my people within our territories. Irregardless if they give the shout-out of stolen land and Indigenous solidarity from time to time. Because what we're witnessing is quite reminisent of canada's apology to my people for the residential school era, yet does very little in rectifying said attitude. Yet in this work, I am also simply trying to get our people to recognize and start taking control of the narrative for the benefit and truth for our people, and not someone else's.

Through all our work we must remember this one FACT above all... that via the doctrine of christian discovery, canada & the U.S. has unfounded, illegitimate and indecent claims on these lands and therefore, has no real authority over the Indigenous Peoples, our Land AND its resources.m This also goes for every colonist and settler, regardless if their ancesters were brought here as slaves or not.
(Wikipedia)
"The Doctrine of Discovery was promulgated by European monarchies in order to legitimize the colonization of lands outside of Europe. Between the mid-fifteenth century and the mid-twentieth century, this idea allowed European entities to seize lands inhabited by indigenous peoples under the guise of discovery...
In 2016, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), adopted Assembly Action CA16.02.04 entitled Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery by a vote of 912-28, describing the Doctrine of Discovery as "an example of the 'improper mixing of the power of the church and the power of the sword'" (Wikipedia) the Anglican Church, the Episcopal Church, and the United Church of Christ have offered apologies for colonial oppression and have repudiated the DOCD as “fundamentally opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ and our understanding of the inherent rights that individuals and peoples have received from God.”