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The Red Nation Podcast

"Nothing human is alien to me" w/ Vijay Prashad

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) from the Tricontinental (@tri_continental) talks about imperialism, socialist writing, and the politics of hope.

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If you're screw up the nomenclature, if everybody in the world is an Indian, then what does

0:07.2

Indian mean, right?

0:08.2

Yeah.

0:09.2

So then Indian just means human being.

0:11.7

So now you suddenly have Indians here and

0:15.8

Indians there so this becomes West Indies and the West Indians. Yeah we're the

0:20.9

West Indians. Well, we're the Red Indians.

0:23.0

It's a very interesting thing, because West Indies becomes basically the Caribbean.

0:26.2

Yeah, that's right.

0:27.2

So then what are these Indians?

0:29.6

You know, Plains Indians, non, I don't know.

0:35.0

As I say if everybody becomes Indian it's a problem. So the word East Indian. Oh, God, God. problem. So the word East Indian is used to describe, it was never used to describe India,

1:12.3

even though the East India company is

1:14.3

based initially in India. The Dutch use it for Indonesian archipelago and bits of, you know,

1:21.5

Java and so on, that becomes the East Indies, Dutch East Indies that's what they called it and then when you bring

1:28.4

people indentured labor from

1:31.5

South Asia to the West Indies, they now become East Indian.

1:36.8

So the East Indians in the West Indies.

1:40.8

Well, I heard actually once someone once say an indigenous person from South America once say

1:47.7

Indios as like meaning like we were called Indios meaning that

1:55.6

we possess the potential of God in us. Wow.

1:56.6

Indios and so the irony of it all is that you know the Europeans came with the Bible and we had all the land and now we have

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