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This Hilaria stuff is making me think about how some motherfuckers lean so goddamn hard on blood quanta as a way to "claim" culture. When it's like, you don't move through the world like that, you never caped for the people like that, and you're doing this for literal enrichment.
As compared to folks who perhaps rediscover a connection, and work to actively cultivate that connection. They're not rushing to claim shit. They're not using it to line their pockets. They honestly just want to heal what colonialism and empire have severed.
And maybe one day they might finally voice their claim, but they do so knowing where they stand as they do so. They've worked on that foundation of self. They've helped their people before they were even "their" people.
So when I see this Hilaria shit, and think of all the folks who are quick to cite "I have 2% native blood and and and..." I get pissed af! Cause there's a lot of people who want to reconnect to what was lost and now are going to be looked askance
maybe held in contempt, and might deny themselves a chance at true healing all because they don't want to do more harm! A form of self-sacrifice the Hilaria's of the world could never achieve.
