Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t really value cash and Kardashian lips and fake boobs and stuff like that very highly. Actually, you cannot even own land in Greenland. You can get an allotment for your house and then you own the house on top of the land, but Greenlanders don’t believe in “the land is for one person.” It’s for everyone, and so is the sea.
It’s like the richest wealth that we have there. So it’s a big miscalculation that he thinks that Greenlanders would be incited by cash or something like that. We are not. And even if you were to say like $100,000 per person or something like that, we wouldn’t give up free healthcare. We wouldn’t give up free education. We wouldn’t give up being a part of Europe. We wouldn’t give up our sovereignty eventually.
And we’re a very sovereign people within the Kingdom of Denmark. We’re autonomous right now. We do not want to be rich like the Americans are. See how greedy they are? They’re even trying to shoot their friends or invade their friends just for greed. And we know that there are minerals and oils possibly in our underground, and that’s worth so much more even than that. But even if we didn’t have that, we would still not be bought.
So everyone here knows about the Inuit in Alaska and all of the native tribes, Indians, American Indians who are there. Their land was taken from them, and they haven’t been treated that well in America. And we know that Trump is very much surrounding himself at least with the white power people, and we are not white as you can see. We are of color, and so we know our rights probably would be taken away.
And we also know that we’re very good as we are together with Denmark. As mentioned before, we have free healthcare. We have free study. Whatever you want to study, you can do that for free, and actually government will give you money to study. So while you’re studying, you’re getting a grant from your government. So all of that we wouldn’t trade for the welfare state.
We wouldn’t trade for anything in America. But also, you have to remember a lot of Greenlanders have family, like their mother or father or grandmother or grandfather, who is Danish. We do have a 400 years history together or more in terms of being interconnected in that way. And we’re also seeing a lot of protests in America right now that are unsettling with the ICE agents who are sort of going after a lot of people. And from here it looks like maybe he’s going a lot after Brown people, and we are considered Brown people as you can see.
