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“It is an admirable thing, in a politics possessed of a moral floor, to believe one can change the system from the inside…


But when, after decades of such thinking, decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?”

“There’s safety in this story, safety from one’s own conscience.
Because in this story the weight of indictment shifts onto the dispossessed, the disappeared, the dead, and one can continue as is, comfortable in the knowledge that history, narrative, language itself demands the killing continue.
Or, better yet, has nothing to say at all”

“While the terrible thing is happening—while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed—any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization.

But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight”

and gradually my feet dragging
I slow down the damn bus
it is because of you so I can watch you smile longer