Land acknowledgments now sweeping through nonprofit sector; Canada was a few years ahead of the US on this but expect the apparatus to go into overdrive from here on out law.northwestern.edu/about/diversit… 
“Beds are Burning” came out when I was in eighth grade and was one of the first songs I dubbed onto a cassette tape. “Let’s give it back” was one of those statements that seemed like mere rhetoric but delivered with so much conviction that it seemed he must have meant it
The way we went from Caitlin Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair to “puberty blockers are a human right” in less than a decade, it seems entirely plausible that “let’s give it back” becomes a real movement in the next few years...
One of those things where conservative trolls try to call out progressive hypocrisy and empty language by demanding that “let’s give it back” becomes a thing to own the libs, and then the libs make it a thing to own the cons...
“My critique of this is that it’s just costless empty verbiage that does nothing to truly atone past sins.” But the whole point of the acknowledgment is to generate the pressure for real action that you are demanding in your critique...
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