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Dutch Return Severed Head of African Chief to Descendants
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| July 23, 2009
Posted on 07/25/2009 2:04:54 PM PDT by Lorianne
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:04:55 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:06:27 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Who is Jim Thompson?)
To: Lorianne
Oh, my God, get over it. Horrible things happened to my ancestors 200 years ago and I’m not still “hurt and angry” about it. Take off those frilly panties and deal with it.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:08:49 PM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
To: Lorianne
Kind of ungrateful. Maybe the chief deserved it. I say just keep it and auction it off.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:09:39 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lorianne
> “I am hurt, angry. My grandfather has been killed,” said Joseph Jones Amoah, the great, great grandson of the chief.
Translation: “What?? No baksheesh? No payola?? Whaaaa!”
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:09:40 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Lorianne
>The head of King
Badu Bonsu II was discovered last year in a jar of formaldehyde gathering dust
To: Lorianne
There was a story that beat that a few years ago: The descendants of an Anglican missionary received an apology at a reconciliation ceremony from the descendants of the people who ate him.
To: Lorianne
> The elders demanded the Dutch government provide aid to their tribe to appease the slain chief.
> Nana Kwekwe Darko III, who tipped the gin on the floor in a Ghanaian tradition of respect for the dead, dabbed tears from his eyes afterward and said he wanted the Dutch to build schools and hospitals for his people.
Ah-huh. I knew if I read further into the article there would be a demand for “compensation”, and here it is!
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:13:11 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
Yeah. Here in America I think that the word reparations should be replaced with repatriation and then passed into law.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:16:56 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: Lorianne
who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepted the return of his severed head Thursday, still angry even as the Dutch tried to right a historic wrong. "What am I gonna do with this?!"
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:19:53 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Lorianne
I’ll take Holland over Ghana in a 2 hour war.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:24:16 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(I think Liberals are idiots and I VOTE!)
To: Lorianne
What do the Dutch have to do, give you head?
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:24:35 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
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To: rabscuttle385
“tipped the gin on the floor in a Ghanaian tradition of respect for the dead...”
Just pouring a little out fo my homies who ain’t here!
To: CaptRon
> “What am I gonna do with this?!”
Jeez if it were me, I’d either make a wicked keychain out of it, or maybe even a shift-knob for my Chrysler...
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:25:05 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Lorianne
It would be interesting to find out why the Chief was beheaded.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:25:55 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
To: guitarplayer1953
> It would be interesting to find out why the Chief was beheaded.
I think the story says it was for killing two missionaries and displaying their heads in his hut.
If so, sounds like the punishment fit the crime perfectly.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:27:32 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
You must have HUGE hands!
And equally huge pockets!
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:30:58 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Lorianne
The head was taken by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in 1838 in retaliation for Bonsu's killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads were displayed as trophies on Bonsu's throne,
I knew there was more to this story than just returning the head it appears that it was in retaliation for them beheading tow of the Dutch emissaries.
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:31:51 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
To: CaptRon
You mean it’s not a *shrunken* head?
Dang!
OK then, I’d make it into a hood ornament, with blue LEDs in the eye sockets...
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posted on
07/25/2009 2:34:22 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Lockbar
would bring in good money on ebay.....
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