#BigAndBeautifulTruthsOfTheDay
GET TO KNOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS.
@AfroTeine @forthequltures
👀👀👀
"If we are intent on being a culture of fa'aaloalo, then why would you believe that your language would be so derogatory towards other people? There is a history behind that."
We can't assume that understand white privilege translates to our understanding automatically.
🙌🙌🙌🙌 @AfroTeine @forthequltures
If I don't come for your throat, you don't care about your brain."
DO WE NEED TO RECONSIDER THE WAY WE REACH OUR COMMUNITIES??
Because they don't look like us? 🤷🏽♀️
Because they look like everything we were told to NOT value? 🤷🏽♀️
Because we let ocean separate us? 🤷🏽♀️"
ACTUALLY, we lose our chains! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Are we gonna keep going down the road that's already laid out for us even though it's leading us to a place we shouldn't even go?"
LET'S GO HOME, Y'ALL!"
🏝🏡 @AfroTeine @forthequltures
Sometimes we are used to fighting WITH our culture than fighting FOR our culture."
PAY ATTENTION!
1) Our language is CAPABLE.
2) Meauli is a derogatory term.
3) JUST BE BETTER (that's my own addition!)
Thank you @AfroTeine and @forthequltures
I didn't realize how many nuggets were dropped here! 'Ofa lahi atu.
"Why wouldn't you think, in our colonization, that it wouldn't 'elei the fabric of our language if it's in our language?"