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The lawyers defending the murderers of the elder, #TataDomingoChocChe, making the argument that because he didn’t have the “credentials” to be a scientist, then he is not a Maya scientist 
This is how a system of white supremacy (in Guatemala, and across CentAm) of schooling explicitly denies Maya peoples the right to having knowledge, to being scientists, and to live.
My mother is the smartest womxn I know, she never went to school because she wasn’t allowed to
My mother is the smartest womxn I know, she never went to school because she wasn’t allowed to
And this never stopped her from learning and never stopped her from being great at experimenting in her work (as a seamstress), a skill she passed on to all her children.
Forcing upon this elder’s name a need for credentials further demonstrates how credentials are used to uphold social hierarchies
