The different behaviors displayed over the course of this incident gives insight to the serious repercussions of colonization. It was a convergence where white supremacy met extremist Black liberation theology, and Indigenous people became a linchpin. As the inherent stewards of this land, Indigenous people often become cornerstones in the complicated struggle between colonization and decolonization.

Right now, the government is shut down because our president is having a tantrum over a useless and expensive wall that he wants to put on a colonially imposed border that already cuts across Indigenous lands and separates ancient cultures and peoples. We need to abolish border imperialism.

Every year, for the past sixteen years, the day before Thanksgiving, the community of Sioux City, Iowa comes together to march the streets in honor of Indigenous children that have been taken from their families and placed into settler imposed institutions. It is called the March for Lost Children where hundreds gather to memorialize Native American youth who have been taken from their families and placed in the country's child-welfare system. The goal is to “raise awareness and ultimately reunite displaced Native American children with their home tribes and families.”

I was fueled to share Dr. Ani's work because Trump is a product of a sick segment of humanity that has been cut off from the source by the devastating mind-fuck that Imperialism and Christianity has had on Greek/Roman/European society--all of which eventually made its way to these shores….

Detroit's sacrifice zone is the third most polluted area in the country and the first most polluted in the state of Michigan. Basically, it is a frontline for exposure to a wide array of toxic wastes, heavy metals and air pollutants.