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I totally missed posting this on #LovingDay2020, but Mildred Jeter was Rappahannock, and their marriage license has her listed as “Indian,” this case has significance for understanding blood quantum given Virginia’s archaic one drop rule.
The one-drop rule was used against anyone with Black ancestry to showcase “impurity” whereas, blood quantum for Indigenous Peoples was used against us to showcase “purity”.

Blackness was/is considered expansive. Yet, indigeneity was/is not.
These are important to understand give anti-Blackness within the colonizing US, especially among Indigenous communities. The one drop rule has been used against Black folks, especially mixed Black folks, to continue their enslavement and disenfranchise them.
For Black Natives, the one drop rule is used to minimize their indigeneity and using archaic logics, their “blood” is considered “tainted” whereas mixed white-Natives, their “blood” isn’t considered “tainted”
It’s unfortunate that those same archaic logics exist within many Indigenous communities, they just manifested different. whiteness is celebrated, and Blackness is not.

The lighter you are, the more access to opportunities and power you have, especially within our Nations.
And this is why it is imperative to abolish blood quantum because it is inherently anti-Black. As long as those archaic rules of indigeneity continue to exists, so does anti-Blackness within our communities.
For those interested in reading more, @AzieDee tweets about this a lot 💛 and there are other Black Native who experience colonial violence from their own community.

@lilrednacho also shared this article with me:
m.richmondfreepress.com/news/2020/feb/…
I’m not the first to bring up these dynamics. Others, especially Black Natives, have called out the inherent anti-Blackness in BQ, and how Blackness has been villanized.

Some of them are featured in this op-doc, also shared with me by @lilrednacho 💛

nytimes.com/video/opinion/…
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Non-Black Natives, especially white Natives, benefit socially from anti-Blackness, both contemporary and historically.
Ex: Academia.

Non-Black Natives were “allowed” to attend prominent universities before Black folks were.

Granted non-Black Natives were used to acquire financial support, yet we were seen as “worthy” of an education when many Black folks were not.
Also, American citizenship was extended to non-Black Natives once we renounced our tribal affiliation. Many non-Black Natives could check white if they wanted to once their process of “assimilation” was “complete”.
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Anti-Black Natives really think that most of their movements in the last century were on their own, when really Black solidarity, Black scholarship, and Black theories influenced how we engaged in the public sphere around liberation.
A lot of y’all love to bring up AIM, when that happened post-Civil Rights Movement, which arguably influenced how people resist and challenge colonizing government structures, especially during a time many people were grappling with unlearning anti-Blackness.
Black Lives Matter, as an org and movement, has always included Indigenous sovereignty and has always been in solidarity with many Indigenous social movements since their founding.

And what have we, as non-Black Natives done in return?
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I’m waking up this morning learning more and more about what the colonizer’s president just did and -

1. the settler colonialism that is just being reinforced and recycled as “America” continues to expand its colonial skewed understanding of democracy.
2. the violence being reinforced against Muslims is terrifying and something to be conscious of as colonial propaganda increases against them.

3. the (failed) concept of unity among “Americans” and the erasure this will have globally on Black and Native experiences.
4. the lack of // minimal awareness of how this will impact the Middle Eastern Indigenous Peoples and the colonial violence they’re still experiencing since the last few US colonizer’s presidents refused and did very little to reduce the presence of war in their lives.
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