For many Native leaders, the administration’s extreme enforcement measures are not an isolated policy shift, but the latest chapter in a centuries-long story of violent colonization.
As people talk about the rent freeze in Santa Barbara, with some blaming landlords and some blaming the renters, in fact, the increases in rent are the fault of neither of them.
America has never had institutions designed to maximize the potential of its people. It was a patriarchal, imperial hierarchy from inception — designed not to optimize human development but to extract, control, and moralize dominance.