Poisoned Roots

Epistemological sovereignty, which is when we stop basing our understanding of the world, stop basing our interpretation of reality, and stop using the paradigms and the intellectual frameworks of the West, and start using our own. Stop using the ways that the colonizers explained, and the way that the colonizers portrayed how the world works. Because of course, everything that they said was always and only said for the purpose of maintaining their position, maintaining their advantage, and for the purpose of delegitimizing and dehumanizing and invalidating us. They've always been in the rationale creation business. In fact, that's just about the only thing that they ever did create, if we're being honest.

Because everything that they have was actually taken, was actually stolen, was actually pillaged or plagiarized from other people, from other nations. So in fact, what they created was just the rationale or the justification for doing that, for doing all that theft. And that pervades all of their intellectual frameworks. Even before the West went secular, even before they went atheist, they were this way and that's the way they did things. They didn't use religion for justice, they only used religion for justification.

So we have to reject their frameworks, reject their paradigms by default. Because you can't tell me that any framework, you can't tell me that any paradigm, and you can't tell me that any understanding of the world or or for interpreting reality, any framework that was created to justify rape and pillage and channel slavery and genocide, you can't tell me that any framework like that is ever gonna be useful to civilized people. No. You have to reject it. A poison root grows a poison tree and bears poison fruit.

Even if it might have, pretty blossoms on it, the fruit is no good. The tree is no good and the root is no good.