You do realize that much of this applies to every gawdamn nation state in the Americas and clearly elsewhere in the world for that matter?! #Repost @subversive.thread ・・・ Fuck all U.S. presidents. They are below the bar of who we ought to be celebrating. There isn’t a single one of them who wasn’t either a slave-owner or who didn’t support genocide and war crimes in the name of empire. For the vast majority of us around the world, they are the most unwanted parts of our histories. And if they are a part of our histories at all, they are the architects of our oppression. We don’t want to remember them ― we want to remember who fought against them. ✨ This Presidents’ Day weekend let’s interrogate how holidays like these condition our youth to admire our oppressors. Let’s encourage them to look to our own histories for better models of who they could be. #NoMasters #NoLeaders ✨ Image Description: Graphic features Arundhati Roy positioned in front of a waterfall with the caption “Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.” ✨ #Education #CriticalPedagogy #Teaching #PresidentsDay #Resistance #Liberation #History #Colonization #Decolonization #StatePower #Imperialism #TeachersOfInstagram #ArundhatiRoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B9BZ55fgown/?igshid=z2fu0c5d5756
