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Native American Leaders: We Feel ‘Silenced’ When Statues Removed Without Us
breitbart.com ^ | 6/30/2020 | Joel B Pollak

Posted on 06/30/2020 9:40:44 AM PDT by rktman

Native American leaders in the San Francisco area are upset that city leaders decided to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus that was targeted by Black Lives Matter riots, because indigenous leaders were not consulted or present.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, the City of San Francisco preemptively removed a prominent Columbus statue that rioters had targeted for destruction. They intended it to drag it to the San Francisco Bay and throw it in there.

However, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, while Native American leaders were pleased to see the statues of Columbus and other early colonial figures, such as St. Junipero Serra, removed, they are upset it was done without them:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: doh
Stepping on the throat of the red man again. Do they NOT know "#RLM"? So the immigrants that got here before the round eyes is upset? The internal strife between angered PROtestors is getting good. Like blm supporting white folks pulling guns on mostly peaceful PROtestors in STL. Keep on self destructing to make the leaders(?) of your "movement" rich. Anyone audit shawn 'talcum X' king yet?
1 posted on 06/30/2020 9:40:44 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Take down all statues of wheels


2 posted on 06/30/2020 9:43:51 AM PDT by Cold Heart (Legalize Hydoxychlorquin)
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To: rktman

So many prima donnas. So little time.


3 posted on 06/30/2020 9:45:46 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Cold Heart

Rotary Club Lives Matter


4 posted on 06/30/2020 9:46:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: rktman

Perhaps this is #MeToo v2.0?


5 posted on 06/30/2020 9:47:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: rktman

6 posted on 06/30/2020 9:47:50 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: rktman

We’ll invite them when we put it back.


7 posted on 06/30/2020 9:48:49 AM PDT by bwest
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To: Cold Heart

.... and horses..............


8 posted on 06/30/2020 9:48:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: a fool in paradise

Of course everyone remembers being taught in school of the landing of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria in what is now the San Fransisco harbor and the carnage the crew of those 3 ships perpetrated against the native people there in 1492. The liars and posers want you to think he landed in the Bahamas which was really alcatraz island as he passed by. /S


9 posted on 06/30/2020 9:52:00 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: rktman

At an annual faculty conference a few years back, an African-American woman was giving an hour-long presentation on how the college was expanding its activity promoting diversity and inclusion, etc etc etc, at the end of which the first response was from a Native-American female who went on a five-minute rant on how the college was so unfeeling as to not include Native Americans in their diversity and inclusion. No one, least of all yours truly, pointed out to the Native American female that she herself was included in the diverse faculty of the college.

P.S. I have adjuncted for this college for almost two decades. During that time, I have had 12 deans and/or program directors as my supervisor, none of which has lasted more than two years. Ten demonstrated diversity and inclusion, which did not seem to help them during the purges.


10 posted on 06/30/2020 9:52:13 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: rktman

Maybe we should make statues with spring bases. That way all the morons could have their turn knocking them down?


11 posted on 06/30/2020 10:07:25 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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I was thinking retractable bases.

During protests/riots, the statues could retreat into their base.


12 posted on 06/30/2020 10:17:03 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rktman

Oh, yeah, I forgot. The sovereign nation crowd feels left out from the current victim hysteria. Didn’t your ancestors engage in war in which you tortured your enemies horribly? (On Wikipedia for all to see.)
So shut up, get off the booze, get a job, close the casinos and become a good American citizen.


13 posted on 06/30/2020 10:20:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (THERE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE A DEBATE TRUMP VS BIDEN! It will be the best show ever!)
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Take a day off from the booze and join them!

(Oh crap! That statement was raciss wasn’t it?)


14 posted on 06/30/2020 10:22:13 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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Not racis at all just lacking. Booze is one of the favorite tonics around here for self-abuse by native americans but they do not limit themselves to that. Any drug or intoxicant will do it seems.


15 posted on 06/30/2020 10:57:10 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: rktman

You finally got what you wanted. Yes or no?
So stop complaining.
Do you want to re erect the statue, secure it good with duct tape so your Shaman can have the last word?


17 posted on 06/30/2020 11:52:52 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: rktman

Get off the Res and become an America citizen like 95% of all the other Indians. For starters. Res wonders are 100% democrat and on the take.


18 posted on 06/30/2020 12:24:50 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rktman
Land is owned by one group until it is seized by another. That is just the way it is. Does anyone really believe this country would be what it is today if it had not been seized by Europeans! The indians put up a fight but they lost. Not excusing some of the excesses involved but they did far better than other peoples who lost a war. They weren't exactly pleasant to the people they defeated.
19 posted on 06/30/2020 1:06:34 PM PDT by ontap
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