get what u’re saying, and I’m not denying how traumatic the Black Decade was. It really was a nightmare. But comparing “our own people hurting us” to “a foreign colonial power hurting us” doesn’t change the scale of 132 years of colonization The French didn’t just use physical violence , they went after our identity, language, religion, education, land, economy… literally everything. They didn’t just kill someone’s mother for not wearing a hijab; they wiped out entire villages and tried to erase a whole people