Mrs. Betty Bowers' Bluesky post

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21. Why I DESPISE the title "Dept of Homeland Security"

Yes, we are a nation built on the ideas embodied in our constitution and body of law as we have progressed (and hopefully will continue to progress) in our journey toward a more perfect union.

The term Homeland is directly tied to the notion of being a "native" of a place -- the Homeland.

So "homeland defense" in America is defense, not of the citizenry, but of the native inhabitants?

When the white men in power who advocated for "Homeland" in the name of their new agency envisioned the faces of the "natives" their "homeland defense" would protect, I can guarantee they weren't seeing Native American faces. They were seeing White people.

They claimed the title "increased emphasis on homeland defense." Anyone who buys the notion that "increased emphasis on homeland defense'' sounds better or more descriptive than "increased emphasis on our nation's defense" has bought into the destructive, despicable lie that the United States is a "White Christian homeland."