The myth of the ‘noble savage’ in perfect harmony with nature, etc.
The Mongolians were similarly a semi-nomadic people that had a naturalistic religion, and yet nobody attempts to ascribe to them the same “nobility”.
Yet does anyone doubt that if they had the military advantage, as the Mongols did over their enemies; that the Native Americans would not have been equally as savage in their conquests?
Then we come to the myth that most Americans like to perpetuate about their own family history that somewhere in there is the ‘red noble savage’ that somehow acquits them of their white guilt in being the descendants of a successful agricultural society that displaced a much less successful nomadic and horticultural society.
but they don’t attempt to appropriate western civ history so much?
good point comparing Mongols and North American Indians
who were related btw
I tried to picture Malcolm X in my mind and he always seemed to look like any other African American.
I finally looked it up and some pictures look like he has blond hair and others jet black. Others in between.
In none of them does he have wavy hair.
I remember Redd Fox was supposed to have red hair.
To say that Malcolm X had red wavy hair is simply a false. that is not fact or conjecture, simply a lie.