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Iconoclasms for a New World
2020.
The Plague Year.
A defining year has set in motion everlasting consequences.
Monuments are overthrown.
A new world is being shaped, and this world is no longer subjugated by the white.
Circa 1000, a man named Leifr Eiríksson invaded the continent by means of Ikkarumikluak, in Canada and decided
to misname it Vínland.
In 1492, a man named Cristoforo Colombo invaded the continent by means of Guanahani, in The Bahamas, and for that
he became known as a discoverer.
In 1507, a man named Martin Waldseemüller decided to misname that continent, placing the word America on a map, in the territory today known as Brazil (de facto Pindorama).
In 1776, a group of men gathered as the Continental Congress, declared that a specific country should then be called
the United States of America.
Be it in Ikkarumikluak or Guanahani or Pindorama,
America was not ever born in the United States.
Yet, somehow, the country and its allies still claim the identity of the entire American continent as its own.
We cannot talk of decolonisation without acknowledging the imperialist lexicon we use, protect, and disseminate.
Through the symbolisms brought out by the earliest depictions of the New World and words of revision placed over the images is a first step towards an understanding of the political implications caused by European actions over the course of their centuries-long colonial power.