Posted on 10/13/2009 8:48:13 AM PDT by Starman417
Today, I picked up 2 kids I carpool to the gymnastics club from their magnet school, as I do every Monday. Apparently, there was no mention about Columbus Day. Nada. Zippo. Nothing negative or positive. But they did watch a performance by dancers dressed like Mayan/Aztec Indians; and the older one said it was "Latino Heritage month".
This school was closed for Yom Kippur (where 99% of the kids are black and Hispanic). But they were open today, with no mention of Columbus, but did celebrate "Latino heritage". Oooookaaay.....
I'm recognizing my country, less and less, as time wears on....
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The fact that Latino Culture month excludes discussion of the European who introduced Western Civilization to the stone age people living in the New World does not surprise me -- though it does sadden me.
How long has it been?
You’ve had your fifteen minutes of fame, Ward, now suck it up and move on. We know you’re a liberal but at least try to act like a man.
You bore us. Go away.
It is ironic, Columbus supposedly introduced genocide yet there are more people claiming Myan ans Aztec heritage today than ever before. But, up until Columbus arrived, human sacrifice was OK with these same Aztecs. Go Figure.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
>> Columbus and the Spanish Conquistadors should be recognized as saviors for being instrumental in stopping the holocaust the Aztecs were inflicting on the peoples of Mexico. <<
If they really want to blame someone, Columbus is not the guy to blame, He was just trying to find India. The Spaniards did a lot of good with their missionaries but you got to admit they also did a great share of the looting and plundering as well.
It amuses me that on Columbus day the socialists scum want blame an Italian for the Sins of Spain in the past. Maybe that is their way of rewarding modern day Socialist Spain while jamming a finger at Rome.
The past is past and we have to live int he Future, they need to knowledge that Columbus was a pivotal man in history and stop vilifying him because that sidetracks any honest discussion about history and if we don’t learn from it we are doomed to repeat it.
Speaking as someone who had a concentration in Latin American history, I can tell you that the lefties have nothing but hatred for Cortes, Pizarro, etc., to say nothing of the Catholic Monarchs and their successors, the Hapsburgs.
>> A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. <<
A Republic will continue to exist up until the time that Representatives discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts for the ignorant voting masses from the public treasury to keep themselves in power indefinitely.
There, fixed it for you. :)
The Spanish had just completed a 500 year "Reconquista" of the Iberian Peninsula in which they drove out Islam. They had a military and religious culture and tradition that those who had given their souls to a false or evil god were no longer deserving of human compassion. These were the people who encountered unimaginable horrors upon encountering the "friendly natives" and "noble savages" of the New World. The had every reason to believe that they were dealing with Satan.
You didn’t fix it. You just made it more complicated than it really is. And it isn’t my quote, it is one you have probably read thousands of times, a paraphrase of something written by Alexander Fraser, the Scottish historian who wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic. :)
>> Speaking as someone who had a concentration in Latin American history, I can tell you that the lefties have nothing but hatred for Cortes, Pizarro, etc., to say nothing of the Catholic Monarchs and their successors, the Hapsburgs. <<
Precisely because Socialists feed off pitting one group off of another.
In the 1920's, a nativist version of socialism grew up in Peru. Tactical as ever, the Communists had pitched Peruvian Indian students, who then built a political party called APRA (its Spanish acronym). Expelled by the caudillo Leguia, the Apristas settled in Mexico City, where they found a civil reception from the Mexican Red intellectuals clustered around Frida Kahlo and her sometimes-husband, Diego Rivera.
The intercourse between the Apristas and Communists in Mexico City injected a dose of "brown Kluxerism" into the Mexican intelligentsia that has persisted to this day and has borne fruit in the reconquista policies of the PRI toward the U.S. Their revanchism and irridentism have been noticeable in the ravings of various brown-racist Stateside groups like La Raza Unida, MALDEF, and NALEO, which now aims at becoming a swing (controlling) political bloc in the U.S. and parlaying that position into a new political hegemony of U.S. politics and, there are occasionally murmurings, of a revival of Santannism, viz., the policies and anti-Anglo hard-line attitudes (were Goliad and the Alamo hard-line enough?) of General Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Ward Churchill, known cannibal supporter....
You didn’t fix it. You just made it more complicated than it really is. And it isn’t my quote, it is one you have probably read thousands of times, a paraphrase of something written by Alexander Fraser, the Scottish historian who wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic. :)
Republic or Democracy the end result is sadly the same once one can access public funds without threat of recourse from the public.
The manly Spaniards ran, sword in hand, to kill the blood-soaked Aztec priests on sight.
They weren't too hard to miss ..... they were usually covered in blood. Literally.
Good info! Thanks!
To be fair, Mexican textbooks are rather harsh on Santa Anna for his vainglorious attempts at empire and his loss of 1/3 of Mexican territory to the Americans. The only Mexican leader more reviled by Mexican academics (to say nothing of anyone in Mexico who pays attention to their history) is Victoriano Huerta.
APRA in Peru was largely comprised of lower middle class mestizos who felt disenfranchised by the white elite, with its support later spreading to Indians (who were/are notoriously fickle in their politics) in the countryside later.
Columbus was Jewish. His voyage was financed by Jews, and only sanctioned by the Catholic Monarchy who at the time were aggressively and foolishly ridding themselves of the Jewish plague, while at the same time taking financial and property advantage of Jewish interests. We all know what happened to Spain as a result of the easy wealth pickings from the Americas. “The Wealth of Nations”!
Spain failed. Big Time. They kicked out the Jews, got easy-picking wealth, and look how things turned out for them. Sort of like a Welfare Queen. Much better to be “discovered” by the English, as things go, discovery-wise. England leaves a happy legacy of law to it’s ex-colonial countries. The more old school English an ex-colony keeps its law, work-ethic and educational system, the better things go for it.
What is the keystone of old-school English law work-ethic and educational system? — Old-school Jewish law and custom!
Spain tossed both. The English Channel wrote that coda.
(ref: http://www.closetotorah.com/archives/1328)
The operative word here being, "loss". I don't recall ever hearing about raillery directed against Santa Anna for his denunciation of the Constitution of 1824 and his suppression of the Constitutionalists in e.g. Morelos and Coahuila.
APRA in Peru was largely comprised of lower middle class mestizos who felt disenfranchised by the white elite, with its support later spreading to Indians (who were/are notoriously fickle in their politics) in the countryside later.
The criollos disenfranchised everyone else, as had the peninsulares before them. But nativism was always a political force in Peru, going back to Tupac Amaru'.
Even now, the social pecking order throughout Spanish-speaking America holds Indians at the bottom of the totem pole, this despite the arrival of mestizo revolutions like Mexico's PRI. Someone commented that the PRI has become more and more creole as the mestizo leadership has married into the old creole power elite. One would be hard put to see the old, brown PRI leadership in recent presidents since Miguel de la Madrid in the 1980's.
Still, the PRI is a reservoir of anti-American, anti-Anglo sentiment, and this anti-Americanism informs some of their most basic social and foreign policies toward El Norte.
NALEO and similar NGO's are a middle-future threat to the unity and integrity of the United States; longer-term, I think they're a threat to let the Chinese into the country in numbers, after which we are really in trouble.
The endgame of such a scenario would be a U.N.-supervised breakup of the United States (no doubt articulating Wilsonian aspirations of all the white-haters, just for amusement value) attended by uncontrolled mass immigration of hostile, alien populations bent on the violent extirpation of the old American population.
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