A reminder that Blood Quantum requirements for citizenship—particularly within the context of slave-owning nations—is inherently anti-Black. You are placing certain descendants of slaves on a pedestal depending on if their ancestors were violently raped while in bondage.
Within the context of slave-owning Indigenous nations, such requirements are immoral, racist, and disgusting. Freedmen shouldn’t have to justify our place in our own nations based on whether or not our ancestors were raped by their Native American slave-owners.
We shouldn’t have to find DNA connections to “By Blood” cousins who descend from our ancestors’ slave-owners to justify our place in the nations that enslaved our ancestors and forced them to assimilate into their nations and perform free and coerced labor.
Even if we do have “Native Blood,” why should we be proud of it if we inherited it through non-consensual relationships between masters and slaves. Imagine Black Americans having to justify their American citizenship through white DNA inherited through the rape of their enslaved
ancestors. In a nation that has practiced chattel slavery against people of African descent, such requirements are impractical, disgusting, and racist.
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