Posted on 10/08/2018 8:24:32 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Happy Indigenous People’s Day.
That is what people are saying today in 90 cities and counties large and small across the country today, ranging from Los Angeles and Phoenix to Ithaca and Tompkins County in New York.
Just last week, Cincinnati and Flagstaff, Ariz., joined the list of cities changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. New York City, where human rights shouldn’t take a backseat to local politics, is not on the list. It should be, and as indigenous peoples, we hope city leaders will begin the process of catching up with the rest of the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Not ‘Our’ history, it history.
I must be an indigenous person. My ancestors, mother and father’s lines, came to this country in the 1790’s. That certainly makes me a native american.
My ancestry, Scottish and Welsh, makes me ready to scalp anyone who disputes it.
IN 1492
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
He sailed by night; he sailed by day;
He used the stars to find his way.
A compass also helped him know
How to find the way to go.
Ninety sailors were on board;
Some men worked while others snored.
Then the workers went to sleep;
And others watched the ocean deep.
Day after day they looked for land;
They dreamed of trees and rocks and sand.
October 12 their dream came true,
You never saw a happier crew!
“Indians! Indians!” Columbus cried;
His heart was filled with joyful pride.
But “India” the land was not;
It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.
The Arakawa natives were very nice;
They gave the sailors food and spice.
Columbus sailed on to find some gold
To bring back home, as he’d been told.
He made the trip again and again,
Trading gold to bring to Spain.
The first American? No, not quite.
But Columbus was brave, and he was bright.
:: White folks are such evil bastards. ::
We be respresentin’, muhnukka!
it’s true. October 11 is Columbus Day. Let ‘em rant...
“I can see Ohio, Columbus!”
“That’s Columbus, Ohio!”
Columbus was a navigator, who plyed the Tradewinds before longitude was accurately figured out.
It used to be General thought that the oceans were an obstacle to discovering other places. Well, it’s turned out to be a bit different than that theory. These days it is generally accepted that the oceans were not an obstacle to discovering other areas around the globe but rather, a super highway. The Berbers were Mariners who sailed the coasts of North and South America, the Mediterranean, and the coast of Africa. The Vikings certainly were here and tens of thousands of years before that Asians came down the west coast and further to South America and established colonies and maybe even tribes in those areas. Man is an inherently traveled being. And have been on the trail for millennia, the only Association that this country really has with Columbus was he was one of the first Europeans with a PR machine and a printing press to record his exploits and disseminate his travel journals. That is why he was not assigned a place in obscurity. And all had to do with printing press and dissemination of the printed word.
Always celebrating the victim... The Left truly does love their cult of victimology.
you are right Columbus Day is actually October 12
No one knows the exact date that someone Crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to North America 15,000 or so years ago.
If you remember, during the 2012 campaign Michelle O said Barack had a lot of work to do to changes our history which goes right along with his just five days away from fundamentally transforming America. The Democrats are proudly continuing to do that.
They can rename the Holiday - “Shucks Th Bank is Closed Day”
What's lost in that discussion is how often - and how brutally - the Indians killed one another. For example:
How the Left views the Aztecs:
How the Aztecs really were:
Better ask Christine Ford about that date, opinions and data vary widely....
Mama mia! CC was an illegal immigrant!
“.... Asians came down the west coast and further to South America ....” Oh, you must mean “indigenous” folks who were here before the white man. So, NOT actually from here. Lots of people refuse to believe that some folks walked here thousands of years ago from Asia. ;-)
My own theory is that Acrchaeologists don’t own boats.
If they did, they would know that “Sailors sail”. There were many people here already.
And then there were the Carib tribe....
“According to the Spanish conquistadores, the Carib Indians were cannibals who regularly ate roasted human flesh. Archaeological evidence indicates that if they were cannibals, they limited the consumption of humans to ceremonial occasion...”
Apologists: “ Well sure they had some cannibalistic tendencies but only for religious rituals.”
Arawaks not available for comments, having been conquered and mostly eaten. Succesful genocide preceding evil white white men.
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