cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42557157
Billie Eilish joined Bad Bunny in speaking out against ICE during her acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards, slamming the organization after winning song of the year for “Wildflower.”
The singer was bleeped as she said “fuck ICE,” giving strong commentary during the speech. “Thank you so much. I can’t believe this. Everyone else in this category is so amazing. I love you so much,” she said, standing next to her brother Finneas. “I feel so honored every time I get to be in this room. As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. And, yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, and I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and fuck ICE. That’s all I’m going to say. Sorry. Thank you so much.”
Shouldn’t that be “everyone is illegal on stolen land?”
But what about those of us who live on land that was a part of a treaty with native tribes?
Don’t hide in ignorance. Those treaties were theft.
The tribes still around here would disagree with that.
No we wouldn’t. Those treaties included things like voting members of congress that we are still fighting for over a century later.
Yes; they’re the ones that survived.
Where I grew up, the “local tribe” had been migratory slave traders who expanded into the area shortly before Europeans showed up. They then proceeded to sign a treaty granting them the whole area, including parts where they had never actually settled.
Unlike the other tribes in the area to whom ownership was a foreign concept, they not only understood what was going on, but figured out how to profit from it. So they now have massive treaty lands that had been managed by a different nation for thousands of years prior to European settlement.
