If... unless. (A thought experiment)

(Premise: Black people have far more institutional power in America than has been the reality over the centuries)

If the US government orchestrated a self-serving colonial project to establish a safe homeland for us as overdue penance for slavery

And a small group of white American and European colonizers deemed that a long-inhabited part of Guatemala was to serve as this homeland

With a claim that we were there long ago, backed up by broad bad faith interpretations of the Bible

So we kicked hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Guatemalans (Maya) out of their homes and violently forced them off their land, killing as many of them as we could with the help of the so-called western democracies

Taking pride and pleasure in torture and extermination

All with the claim that anyone who didn’t support this was anti-Black and in favor of Black people being enslaved again

And we set up a genocidal, apartheid state turning Guatemalan natives of the land into less than second class citizens

If we sent our teenagers on “birthright” trips to further their indoctrination and match them with soldiers and others in the “homeland,” to “further the race”

If we considered those currently living on the African continent weak for being from the same stock as those captured and stolen by Europeans for the Transatlantic slave trade, but also used them as props to justify our colonial project in the “troubled region” of so-called Latin America

And we killed an untold number of Guatemalans with the money, political and media support, and armament of the most powerful nations in history

For decades

If all these things were true

There is nothing in my mind, body, or spirit that would bring me to support the “Black cause in Guatemala”

I would feel compelled to fight against this project with every part of me, and to collective with as many of my people as possible to reject and stop it

So what are we to think when we hear the same lines from Zionists?

Other than that they are in full support of the extermination of Palestinian people and the wholesale theft of their land

The bad news for them is that the Resistance, in all its forms, will not bow, will not break, and will not leave the land that is truly theirs

Landback for all Indigenous people is the only way we make it out of this mess

I hope we catch on sooner rather than later

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