PSA: Do Black People Need Indigenous Knowledge? [EP 89]

land back. And it's not It may not be in the immediate overwhelming fashion that people want, because that is the goal. However, it is an actual move towards and it is a no if that's not even fair. It is movement. It is not just movement towards. It is movement on business, and it is people who are connected to their indigenuity as it exists, beyond something to capitalize on. It is something that is within them. It is something that drives them. It is something that has spirit attached

to it. Right, it has something greater than just their physical form attached to it. And that right there is something that black people in the United States have been lacking because it was stolen from us. And I say in my book what would the ans astors say? And I say on my book tour, and I continue to

say this here. If we are not paying attention to the efforts of indigenous communities to get their land back, then we are completely disregarding a huge aspect as black people, and just as folks who want there to be land backed in the United States and in western spaces, we are completely disregarding not only sources of knowledge, but sources

of strength. When I see black mainstream media and I see black folks who are not talking about this, I say, those are people who are one disconnected not only from other factions of information, but they are also disconnected from

the value of indigenous knowledge. For black people in the United States who had to form our own version of indigenousity, we will not win, we will not succeed, we will not come together, We will not do anything that we claim we want to do until we identify ourselves as truly indigenous, not just the way that people be like we wasn't slaves, we was indigenous. No, that's not what

I'm talking about. I mean as in a collective that understands the world in a shared way, that understands our existence in the world in a shared way that is connected beyond our attachment to material things, beyond our goals of exceeding or succeeding in this capitalist mainframe. No, until we identify that, until we bring in our African indigenity and combine it with all of the uniqueness that we

have created here, we will never get anywhere. So when you are watching black folks out here who say they're for black folks, make sure that they are also speaking about indigenous folks all over this world as a source of knowledge, as a source of wisdom, and also as a source of strength, because we are all being actively disconnected from that source for a reason, to keep us able to be squelched, suppressed, and repressed. So stay alert, stay coalitioned, and keep expanding.