This Activist’s Marxist Brainwashing Explains Why Antifa Has Terrorized Portland for 51 Nights By Tyler O’Neil,
https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/19/portland-afro-indigenous-non-binary-protester-calls-for-abolition-of-the-united-states-as-we-know-it-n662241
On Friday, before the fiftieth night of violent antifa riots, a protester who identified herself as an “Afro-Indigenous non-binary local organizer” declared that she is advocating for the abolition of “the United States as we know it.” This brief declaration arguably encapsulates the destructive spirit of antifa and the impetus behind the violent riots that have ravaged the streets of Portland.
“My name is Lilith Sinclair, I’m an Afro-Indigenous non-binary local organizer here in Portland, organizing for the abolition of not just the militarized police state but also the United States as we know it,” Sinclair declares in a brief video that went viral on Twitter. She also called Portland “stolen land,” proceeding to give Native Americans a “land acknowledgment.” By the way, she also identifies herself as a “sex worker,” i.e. a prostitute.
By “Afro-Indigenous,” Sinclair likely means she has black and Native American ancestors. By “non-binary,” she insists that she does not fall into the binary understanding of biological sex as male or female. In an interview with the Portland Mercury last month, Sinclair argued that Americans have to deconstruct the “colonized thought” that white oppressors supposedly foisted upon racial minorities.
“We’ve been working to heal these intergenerational wounds of colonization and genocide for generations. But there’s still a lot of work to undo the harm of colonized thought that has been pushed onto Black and indigenous communities,” Sinclair told the newspaper. “That’s in regards to Christianity, and in regards to all of these different types of oppressive systems that have introduced and enforced the gender binary on communities that did not ascribe to that way of thinking, including indigenous communities both Native American and across Africa.”
She spoke about “coming out” as non-binary, saying it involved “unlearning the harm through colonization that I’ve been introduced to, but also about making space for our elders who have been fighting the fight for a long time, to try to teach them to see past the colonization path as well. My gender journey took being surrounded by a lot of other Black trans and nonbinary revolutionaries who really helped me unlearn cultural expectations, and the forced performed femininity that’s expected in sex work.”
Sinclair’s call to abolish “the United States as we know it” is not just a fluke of one speech she gave in Portland. Last month, she told the Mercury, “I work on abolitionist principles because I know the United States was founded on genocide. I know that there is clearly no respect for the sanctity of human life.” She argued that America’s involvement in foreign countries “is not leadership—it’s imperialism and neocolonialism dressed up in a way to make people forget the genocide.”
She concluded by celebrating the Stonewall Riots in 1969, now celebrated in June (designated “Pride month”) as the beginning of the LGBT movement. “I think it’s apt that we are looking at a global uprising against oppressive structures during the month where we celebrate the anniversary of another uprising—another movement to not just ask for but to demand our rights,” she said.
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