Day 17: Your ancestors were the colonized & the colonizers!

“Let’s Talk About It — The Lineage Nobody Wants to Name”Let’s talk about it… because most people won’t.Some of us come from lineages where our ancestors were enslaved, raped, stolen, and displaced.Others come from lineages that did the enslaving, the raping, the conquering.And a lot of us — especially those of us from the Caribbean Diaspora — carry both.Yeah… I said what I said.Your ancestors were colonized AND colonizers.And it’s time to stop pretending otherwise.I’m Taíno by blood.African by blood.European by blood.But that European?That wasn’t romance or pride — that was force.That’s colonization. That’s rape. That’s genocide.I don’t glorify it…But I do acknowledge it. Because you cannot heal what you refuse to name.If you’re white‑passing like some of us in the Caribbean, you’ve benefited from that history — and you’ve probably been haunted by it too.I know I have.If you’re visibly Black or Indigenous, you’ve carried the trauma in your skin, your voice, your posture, your survival strategies.And neither experience cancels the other.Let me say that again — neither experience cancels the other.I honor and deeply respect my BIPOC comunidad every single day.Real ancestral healing requires that you name the entire lineage — the healers and the harm‑doers.This isn’t about guilt.This isn’t about shame.This is about accountability, liberation, and radical truth‑telling.We are the generation breaking the silence.Breaking the patterns.Breaking the contracts.We are the altars now.We are the answers they never imagined.So let me ask you…🔥 Are you ready for the real work?Or just the aesthetic?