Colonial Tongues Are Not Sacred Objects

Colonial Tongues Are Not Sacred Objects

Languages are tools—not idols.
Most people outside Spain speak Spanish today because it was forced on their ancestors through conquest. Their original languages were silenced, erased, or buried.

So no—Spanish does not belong to modern gatekeepers any more than it belongs to me. No one owns a language. It is not a golden calf to be protected or weaponized.

Creating music in another language is not theft.
Idolizing a colonial tongue while ignoring the devastation behind it is misplaced reverence.

Truth doesn’t need permission—and culture doesn’t need gatekeepers.