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Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals. That’s starting to change
Science News ^ | Jaime Chambers

Posted on 09/14/2021 6:13:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

With lemon and black plumage, the Scott’s oriole flashes in the desert like a flame. But the bird’s name holds a violent history that Stephen Hampton can’t forget. He used to see the orioles often, living in California. Now that he lives outside the bird’s range, “I’m kind of relieved,” he says.

Hampton is a birder and registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Winfield Scott, a U.S. military commander and the bird’s namesake, drove Hampton’s ancestors and other Native Americans from their land in the 1800s during a series of forced marches now known as the Trail of Tears. The journey killed over 4,000 Cherokee, displacing as many as 100,000 people in the end.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; History; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: animals; blackliesmatter; cancelculture; cherokee; cherokeenation; criticalracetheory; cynicaltheories; godsgravesglyphs; jaimechambers; liberalagenda; plants; racism; scott; scottsoriole; trailoftears; winfieldscott
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To: ConservativeStatement

Let’s just name everything Bob.


41 posted on 09/14/2021 8:28:17 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think one of them is called Fred. Isn’t that a racist name?


42 posted on 09/14/2021 8:43:41 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: kiryandil

Sadly, I’m pretty sure they can.


43 posted on 09/14/2021 8:47:54 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh, thank goodness. Now I can sleep at night.


44 posted on 09/14/2021 8:50:55 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

My wife’s grandfather and grandmother were full blood and half Cherokee from Georgia, respectively. They lived on a reservation out in Oklahoma, I believe she said. Her response to all this Woke native tribalism is, “Talk to the hand.” It’s a fart in a hurricane to her, and she’s had a bellyful.


45 posted on 09/14/2021 9:26:56 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bookmark


46 posted on 09/14/2021 9:49:19 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

They should name a plant something like “Buckwheat.”

Oh, wait...


47 posted on 09/14/2021 11:05:19 PM PDT by moonhawk (I will not bow; I will not bend; I will not submit; I will not surrender. )
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To: Flick Lives

That doesn’t work for me. Those are ARABIC numbers and they trigger memories of 9-11.


48 posted on 09/14/2021 11:35:05 PM PDT by wingnut1971 (Oh good...another BS study I get to pay for.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t think that the bird in question either knows or cares about what humans call it.


49 posted on 09/15/2021 12:57:17 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Anima Mundi

Cynical Theories, thanks for that I will attempt to read this.


50 posted on 09/15/2021 2:48:45 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

51 posted on 09/15/2021 5:18:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals.”

But not in CRT. /s


52 posted on 09/15/2021 5:19:42 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: MachIV

Give them time..............

Eventually the Titmouse and Black Swans will have to be called something else.................


53 posted on 09/15/2021 5:20:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DesertRhino

ISWYDT.....................


54 posted on 09/15/2021 5:21:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Flick Lives
To nip all this ridiculous crap, it would be best to reassign all species an arbitrary number. This is the Borg identification system. This bird for example can be species 847-6224-42. Catchy, isn’t it.

Math is hard.

Numbers are a racist way of keeping POC repressed.

55 posted on 09/15/2021 5:40:51 AM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job = Only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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To: Candor7

Hampton ought to confront the Cherokee nation’s own sorted past. Cherokees kept slaves, sided with the Confederacy, did not free slaves until over a year after the Civil war, and refused tribal citizenship for freed slaves.


56 posted on 09/15/2021 5:44:47 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: moonhawk
They should name a plant something like “Buckwheat.”

When ground into flower it becomes doewheat, sometimes spelt doughwheat...

57 posted on 09/15/2021 5:45:23 AM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job = Only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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To: wingnut1971

They’re just called “arabic” numbers. The arabs stole them from the Hindus.


58 posted on 09/15/2021 5:47:20 AM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job = Only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oriole...wasn’t she one of Sapphire’s girlfriends in the old Amos n’ Andy series?


59 posted on 09/15/2021 10:24:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: null and void

I’d prefer 867-5309


60 posted on 09/15/2021 12:12:04 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Definitely NOT a fan... miss the last guy )
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