Black Lives Matter (BLM) experienced much backlash on Thanksgiving when it described America as “stolen land.”
“You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,” the organization wrote in a social media post on Thursday which also included a graphic.
“Colonization never ended, it just became normalized,” the graphic read:
You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land. pic.twitter.com/1Ob1RgBkvp
The group then urged followers to “Find out which ancestral homeland you’re currently occupying” by visiting a website.
However, social media users fired back at the organization, one person writing, “But blm founders own houses shouldn’t you give those up first?”
“Then give up your houses card money jobs and everything else you own because that’s all on stolen land too,” another commented.
“Every square inch of land occupied on this planet was stolen/conquered. You’re normalizing generational victimization and it’s gross,” yet another user replied.
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Tweets mentioned:
https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter/status/1463982548707524613
https://twitter.com/robinsonnink/status/1463984513168646152
https://twitter.com/kevin_david91/status/1464053206745423876
https://twitter.com/Thump202002/status/1464054769253859328
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