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We should ask ourselves what #Decolonization means to Muslims, Jews, Roma, Afro/ Asian Europeans, People of Colour, LGBTIQ community, CSO's, EU institutions, policy makers of #Europe.
We must decolonise our structures that drive discrimination to built an inclusive Europe.
We must decolonise our structures that drive discrimination to built an inclusive Europe.
#Decolonization is essential to address structural racism in EU Member States.
Toppling statues of criminals & racist colonialists is essential to make Europe future proof just as education on the real colonial history of Europe. #BlackLivesMattters
Toppling statues of criminals & racist colonialists is essential to make Europe future proof just as education on the real colonial history of Europe. #BlackLivesMattters
From #Roosevelt to #Churchill to #LeopoldII: they are visible monuments to the greatest crime in history: #Colonialism.
Therefore, we must prioritise #decolonization to topple the invisible monuments that make our society so structurally racist. #Europe
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Therefore, we must prioritise #decolonization to topple the invisible monuments that make our society so structurally racist. #Europe
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
#EU should come out of the state of denial on structural racism & police brutality against minorities.
Condemnations are only meaningful when they are coupled with real action to completely change racial biases in our institutions. #BlakeLivesMatter
@EU_Commission @JuliePascoet
Condemnations are only meaningful when they are coupled with real action to completely change racial biases in our institutions. #BlakeLivesMatter
@EU_Commission @JuliePascoet
Structural & institutional racism as well as police brutality against minorities are a national security threat to all EU member states.
Our future depends on building a union for all without structural and institutional racism. #blacklivesmatter @vonderleyen @EU_Commission
Our future depends on building a union for all without structural and institutional racism. #blacklivesmatter @vonderleyen @EU_Commission
Failing to acknowledge police brutality in the EU a single time by @vonderleyen shows the EU continues its state of denial.
Let's ask the difficult questions on why the EU is structurally and institutionally racist. #BlackLivesMattters
Let's ask the difficult questions on why the EU is structurally and institutionally racist. #BlackLivesMattters
I see some people making the 'removing statues is erasing history' argument.
As someone with a degree in European History, let me explain my view on why this doesn't hold water.
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As someone with a degree in European History, let me explain my view on why this doesn't hold water.
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Statues celebrate, memorials commemorate.
A statue doesn't teach real history. Its only purpose is, and has always been, to send a message of glorification.
A statue doesn't teach real history. Its only purpose is, and has always been, to send a message of glorification.
These statues, whether #LeopoldII in Belgium, #Colston in Britain or #GeneralLee in America, were erected decades after these people lived.
And they were built for specific reasons that said more about the present than the past.
And they were built for specific reasons that said more about the present than the past.
[THREAD] Certains commencent à s'indigner de la suppression de statues en Belgique en réaction aux #BlackLivesMatter
Pour info, cet esclave sous #LeopoldII contemple les mains et pieds de sa fille de 5 ans, coupés car il n'a pas atteint les quotas de récolte de caoutchouc... ⬇️
Pour info, cet esclave sous #LeopoldII contemple les mains et pieds de sa fille de 5 ans, coupés car il n'a pas atteint les quotas de récolte de caoutchouc... ⬇️
D'après la photographe, une britannique dénommée Alice Seeley Harris, la fillette et la femme de l'esclave furent ensuite tuées puis mangées, une pratique visiblement courante avec les esclaves de l'époque au Congo Belge⬇️
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Les mains d'esclaves étaient par ailleurs utilisées comme monnaie, et en posséder un grand nombre était considéré comme honorifique pour un soldat belge, donnant lieu à de multiples mutilations d'innocents ⬇️
