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Single Issue Voters will save the world! (lemmy.world)

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[–] rockSlayer 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He made a statement on Indigenous People's Day about what he already plans to do and states plainly that he needs to do more work as a scholar and activist to learn about how to bring justice to the Native Americans that were genocided in pursuit of Manifest Destiny.

To this end, today I’m pleased to announce that as president, I will establish a Federal Office for Tribal Equity and Liberation ... This office will be charged with guiding and assisting me with confronting and dismantling challenges specific to our Indigenous siblings - from access to clean water, clean air, and a healthy environment, to ending the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, to ensuring that all treaties are upheld and respected in ways that are perpetually monitored and evaluated to increase justice and maximum efficacy. This office will also inform my administration on the best and most expeditious ways to codify and enforce FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent), as well as the Land Back Commission I’m committed to forming as part of my Policy Pillars for a Movement Rooted in Truth, Love, and Justice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bringing justice to those that were genocided would entail ending the occupation, returning all stolen land to their ancestors, and probably transferring all assets to them. Not some half-assed "I'll strive to create an office to ease the pain"

[–] rockSlayer 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

part of his platform is to use FPIC to return land equitably to tribes, as well as issue various reparations. It's hard to get any more clear than that. Cornel West has always meant exactly what he says.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As I said: half assed

Retreat, return, repair. Anything less is just trying to excuse and continue to profit off the genocide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you aren't a leftist, so you'll forgive me if i don't let you set the standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not a leftist because chex notes I want to see the stolen land returned?

Glad you're setting the standards here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

you're not a leftist. what you have to say about returning stolen land is meaningless to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just FYI, there are some really unfortunate but good reasons why tribal land has no equity and is unable to be used as collateral. For something to have value, there needs to be an interested seller and an interested buyer - but if reservation land is sold, it leaves the hands of the tribe and just becomes regular old white people land. We'd like tribal members to have access to that equity to use as collateral for debt... but we also don't want to disintegrate the reservations. There are good reasons for tribal land to be non-transferable, and we really shouldn't change that - however, there have been proposals for the government issuing uncollateralized loans as a form of reparations that are extremely interesting.