When everyone rushed to declare Santorum’s white supremacy and racism, I declared a failure to link his comments to the real injustice—the ongoing dispossession of Native American land. His “wilderness” myth of American exceptionalism defends the state by whitewashing land theft!
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1389395080688152576
Instead, all those denouncing him focused on Native American “contributions to America” like an Iroquois influence on the Constitution or corn. The only “contribution” that matters is every last acre of land as the injustice of land dispossession that began then never stopped!
You can have this mythical nation if its founded on empty land. This is a key national myth. It requires erasure of Native Americans. It has been ongoing since then. One side is not more enlightened than the other when both center and frame the nation as good—both erase injustice
See how they say his comments are about “culture” in the video I tweeted? The ongoing injustice to Native American is not dissing our cultural “contributions to America,” its land theft! When it comes to us, land is always the most important thing.
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