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20 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read

A better tomorrow is not possible if white supremacists are allowed to kill today.

A just future will not come if the arms of justice are slathered in the supremacist codings of the past.

The burdens of dirty deeds thought done & past linger in the smoke trails of a burning barrel lovingly cradle by a white boy fostered to fear black liberation.

And…Twitter platitudes will not stem the tide, oh the god damn irony.

But processing this day and the unsurprising expressions/vindication of entrenched anti-blackness and settler colonialism got me in my fucking feels.

Today I visited the site of Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock. The same day RCMP raided Wet’suwet’en territory. The same day #Rittenhouse got off. A few days after #JuliusJones got life w/o parole for a crime he didn’t do.

& if you don’t see the connection then ur blind.

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3 Sep

Look I’m nobody really. But I’ve been fortunate to have met ppl way smarter than me: traditional Indigenous scholars, academics, scientists, economists etc etc.

And via their lessons I’ve come to see how fucking critical the situation is.

We are in climate chaos.

I’ve had cowboy coffee w/ Nebraska farmers - who talk of the land with sincere reverence & fight Big Oil from destroying their property.

I’ve marched w/ Sarayaku womxn fighting oil in the Amazon.

We are in climate chaos.

I’ve seen the barren expanse of the Tar Sands.

I’ve stepped in the rising waters drowning Houma homes in Louisiana.

We. Are. In. Climate. Chaos.

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29 Aug

I’m so worried for my friends and relatives of the United Houma Nation and other Chitamacha tribes in Louisiana. News outlets won’t say it but there are a lot of Native communities gonna get hit by #HurricaneIda.

#HurricaneIda will make landfall in the heart of the United Houma Nation. Native communities who have lived in the bayou for generations. Prayers and love to our folks who will carry the brunt of the storm head-on.

This region of the Mississippi River Delta is also one of the epicenters of the petro-chemical industry of the United States adding an even more frightening element to the impacts of this Hurricane. So much potential for tragic devastation.

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@dallasgoldtooth

5 Sep 20

I once did a series of toxic masculinity workshops at a state prison in Minnesota. They were some of the most humbling & engaging conversations I ever had w/ fellow men. Mostly native & black men with a few hmong brothers & a couple white dudes.

It was the discussion about trauma & the limitations of what it means to be a man that hit the hardest. To see/hear/feel the repercussions of hurt boys who never healed, who remain in many ways emotionally traumatized kids who've hurt others, pains me.

I heard stories:
•of trauma inflicted in childhood
•of being taught to sever one's emotional capacity as a man
•of how we learn to inflict harm, dominate others & normalize toxic ways

They reinforced my belief that as men we are also victims of toxic masculinity.

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