"Each of these language-related forces — individually or working in tandem — can produce the same result: a person is returned to a place where they face forms of harm that entitle them to protection under international and domestic legal
The United States devised the boarding school system to more easily dispossess Native groups of their land by severing their connection to people and place. Genuine healing calls for both the return of land and the restructuring of legal, governmental,
The group who had a head start without shackles would still have many advantages, and those advantages would not disappear or be remedied by simply pretending otherwise. That, however, is essentially what colorblindness necessitates. And it is absurd.