"The U.S. is evil and must be destroyed. Buy our ice cream!"
These commie dumb-dumbs.
Are any of you buying this stuff still?
Cuz this is what you're supporting.
What about the cows, Ben and Jerry??
Anyone with a history book or the intelligence beyond that of the average bear knows that history is far more complex than what the ice-cream guys are peddling.
Why don't you "return" your land first, Ben and Jerry?
But no, they want to start with Mount Rushmore.
Seriously.
Here's why we need to start with Mount Rushmore.
Told ya.
The Great Sioux Nation, as the tribes in the area were collectively known, was forced to surrender its land and relocate to smaller reservations on land that the government considered "useless."
From there, in 1927, they watched as their holy mountain, now located on land known as South Dakota, was desecrated and dynamited to honor their colonizers, four white men — two of whom enslaved people and all of whom were hostile to Indigenous people and values.
Ben and Jerry really need to watch this clip about the Lakota:
Let's follow their thought experiment to its natural conclusion.
The Indigenous-led Land Back movement is all about restoring the rights and freedoms of Indigenous people. It's about dismantling white supremacy and systems of oppression and ensuring that Indigenous people can again govern the land their communities called home for thousands of years.
Once the U.S. is gone and the land is returned to the tribes that once ruled the Americas, will they pay it forward? After all, their land was stolen from other tribes, and those tribes stole it from other tribes, and those tribes stole it from other tribes.
What about the land that was gifted to European settlers, treaties that were made with one tribe to fight another tribe, land that Europeans bought legally with land contracts, and land that was sparsely populated by nomadic wanderers?
And when we "return" it, who gets to live there? Do people like me who have Cherokee blood get to stay, or am I too white? If I can stay, do I have to live within the confines of historic Cherokee territory? Who gets to be the arbiter of that? The ice cream guys??
