“An anti-Trump movement that fails to build anti-colonial foundations will be just another settler protest, impotent and unable to bring together great masses of people for the purposes of authentic liberation. The border wall is about the securing of stolen settler territory along a border that crossed Mexicans, many of whom are Chicanx people Indigenous to the region. The travel ban is about Christian hegemony, a pillar of the U.S. settler colonial project. The racism, patriarchy, and anti-queerness come from colonial social relations that were imported by European settlers and institutionalized. The spearheading of DAPL and Keystone are the clearest instances of colonialism and environmental racism. There is but one commonality that cuts across all other concerns regarding a Trump presidency. That commonality is the situation of continued settler colonialism via U.S. occupation of Indigenous lands.” More here.