{"id":32561,"date":"2021-05-26T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=32561"},"modified":"2021-05-21T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:31:35","slug":"black-lives-matter-opposes-settler-colonialism-but-only-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/26\/black-lives-matter-opposes-settler-colonialism-but-only-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter opposes settler colonialism, but only in Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From America&#8217;s moral compass:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/freepalestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#freepalestine<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1394289672101064704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If there are Americans who are upset because some indigenous people do not own all of the real estate within and do not have political control of a region, shouldn&#8217;t they devote 99% of their energy to correcting injustice right here in North America? Give their houses to the nearest Native Americans. Stop voting and let the legitimate residents of the U.S. (i.e., Native Americans) be the only voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could perhaps excuse some Black Americans from the requirement of giving back their houses to the rightful (Native) owners on the grounds that the ancestors of these Black Americans were brought here involuntarily. But the co-founder of the BLM movement &#8220;is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opal_Tometi\">Wikipedia<\/a>) The percentage of Americans who identify as &#8220;Black&#8221; who are recent immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants (see Kamala Harris, for example) increases every day. From the perspective of a Native American, wouldn&#8217;t these &#8220;Black lives&#8221; parked in North America be examples of &#8220;settler colonialism&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/aug\/11\/black-lives-matters-movement-palestine-platform-israel-critics\">&#8220;Critics denounce Black Lives Matter platform accusing Israel of &#8216;genocide'&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Guardian<\/em>, August 2016): There is a genocide going on, but the BLM folks will spend 99% of their time complaining about some comparatively minor problems here in the U.S. (almost any problem is minor compared to &#8220;genocide&#8221;)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/\">&#8220;Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors\u2019 million-dollar real estate buying binge&#8221;<\/a> (<em>New York Post<\/em>) describes heap many houses that Native Americans would be delighted to receive<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From America&#8217;s moral compass: If there are Americans who are upset because some indigenous people do not own all of the real estate within and do not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Lives Matter opposes settler colonialism, but only in Israel? 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