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  December 2020     3 years ago

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The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero  Famous Quote

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I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero  Famous Quote

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Would others like their grandparents or great-grandparents to be dug up and put on display? How do you explain to your children why their ancestors are on display and not other groups?

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero  Famous Quote

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Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero  Famous Quote

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Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero  Famous Quote

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