Posted on 12/08/2023 4:02:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
After more than 2,500 Cambridge residents made their voices heard during the participatory budget vote in 2021, more than 70 new street signs in East Cambridge will include translations into the native Massachusett language.
Sage Carbone, a Cambridge resident, proposed the participatory budget item to add traditional Native translations to city signs, along with commemorating Native American sites in Cambridge with markers.
“Any representation is missing,” she said. Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island with Nipmuc, Massachusett ancestry.
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If they don’t know what STOP means they shouldn’t be driving. On a trip to Europe I noticed the stop signs say stop.
This isn’t about understanding. It’s about creating a new entitled class that resents Whitey.
Guess that means that those streets are open season for Massachusetts Injuns to revert to their former pastimes of rape, pillage, and slavery...
“Forget it, Jake. It’s East Cambridge.”
“Yes but that is how most Americans experienced the Indians during our early days. They were on horseback.”
Huh? Most people were on foot, there were horses, but they weren’t a household item for many years. An oxen was a better choice for the working farm both were very dear. Farms had domesticated stock for eggs, wool, pigs. Fishing and trapping were the norm for game.
Most didn’t have personal firearms either, maybe on the frontier. Trenton was an early battle. Why? The British were enroute to secure the armory there. The colonial militia raced there to arm themselves.
I thought ahqueesh Johnson played for the Celtics
Go to any ER in Boston. You'll hear "wicked bad" "wicked hurts" a lot.
If they were serious about ousting the colonizers, Cambridge residents should give up their property to the Indians. Anything else is an empty gesture.
The Indians had no written language which is why they were called “savages”. From an old text book circa 1800. WE created the Indian languages.
Okay, in deference to all the woke wackos, how about some ebonics recognition. They could start renaming streets.
Perhaps
Wassupwitdat
DidnDoIt
Wasssssup
DidnDoNutin
And my all time favorite
Don’t Taze Me Bro
I think you're right. The Injun's are gonna sue; if people can't read the signs....how are they gonna find the Casino's?
You’d think the signs would be in Soviet Russian.
Are natives, most of whom don’t speak the old Indian tribal languages, proposing this or just the usual white bread progressive virtue signalers who don’t have any friends?
That was some sharp stand up comedy 👍
Rule#1 Don’t make eye contact while driving on n Boston
No, they were not on horseback. The Spanish introduced modern horse to the new world. Horses were unknown to the eastern tribes. The plains Indians acquired mount from the Spanish and from capturing wild horses that bred from escaped Spanish stock. Plains Indians did not begin to acquire horses until the 18th century. The extinct North American horse was only about one foot in height. It was extinct prior to the Aleutian migrations.
Guess they’ll have to convert them all to loud speakers since the Indians didn’t have written language.
““Wicked” is a Maineism, not used in Boston in my experience.”
“wicked” is used all over Massachusetts..
it’s wicked cold, that’s wicked expensive, you look wicked good...etc.
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