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Legal Ethics - Ethical Question Essay
Legal Ethics - Ethical Question Essay
Legal Ethics
02 03 16
Ethical Question
The ethical question that comes out of this text is a very pessimistic one: What does it
mean for us to face an Incommensurable enactment of Decolonization? This question comes face
to face with the harsh reality of settler colonialism because it sees Decolonization as being
something without equivalent, as incommensurable. The view of Decolonization is as the title
proclaims, as not a metaphor. This non-metaphorical view of Decolonization is sees it as being
closer to the historical decolonizations that happened in African and Asia during the 1960s, and
the conflicts that arose within these structural shifts, rather than just a removal of the
Washingtons football teams name. This however sees the shift in the way we see everything we
deem normal because it no longer sees White Settlers as being the top of the pyramid, or even the
existence of a state called the United States of America as legitimate. It is a question that makes
no guarantee on any one who participates in settler colonialism on a structural level. It only
really guarantees three things: That the Settler Nation no longer exists, that Native Peoples must
be at the singular and at the forefront of this Decolonization, and that there is no guarantee of a
future for the rest of the participants in the settler project.
As a Quechua-Latino, I see a particular view of being both a son of an immigrant, and an
Indian who seeks for the end to settler violence, in Bolivia and across the Americas and world. I
personally see a praxis of Decolonization must have Indigenous Peoples at the forefront because
it is the very existence of foreign peoples on their land that makes the United States possible. I
see that the existence of the United States as being inherently unethical and that an active conflict
with the state is necessary for any hope for the end of an active and direct violence for Natives in
particular and People of Color in general. An obscure Decolonial Future while studying the
problems of past decolonizations is necessary creating a world that doesnt recreate the same
unnecessary violence of those past movements, and sees actual equality.