"The one who takes the best meat for himself": Aaron Huey on America's Prisoners of War

In this video, Aaron Huey intertwines white privilege and Indigenous oppression while offering a decolonized perspective of American history extending to the present. Huey explores the notion of white privilege through the Lakota term "wasichu" meaning "non-Indian" or "the one who takes the best meat for himself." As he speaks, Huey explicitly indicates to the [predominantly white] audience that they are the beneficiaries of a brutal American history based on slaughter and exploitation:"We are at a private school in the American West, sitting in red velvet chairs with money in our pockets. And if you look at our lives, we have indeed taken the best part of the meat."