White Americans or Afro-Americans – living in America side by side

IWB ^ | Samvel Z. Harutyunyan

[davikkm]

When Columbus first landed in Cuba and Puerto Rico in 1492-93, he and his crew were met and surrounded by the happy and ecstatic Indians, who consisted the absolute majority of the American continent’s population. I did not find a single Indian on the island back in 1975, though there were lots of the monuments of both Indian men and women in Guama (Matanzas), a well-known Indian village in Cuba. When I, then a 14-year-old youngster, who was full of impressions from those books and westerns, where the chiefs like Chingachgook and Geronimo were the heroes, same as their opponents, the white-faced brave cowboys, asked our guide, if I could see any Native Cuban)) alive here in Cuba, he after feeling very uneasy and hesitating, looking from me to my dad and back, said that all Indians were exterminated by Spaniards very soon, in the 16th century …. A cruel reality, which is almost unbelievable, when you realize, that the majority of the local population was exterminated by the newly arriving European minority, well-armed, equipped, greedy and cruel. So sad, but this is already a history.

[Common Sense 101]

Not surprising... not to mention that these European explorers had absolutely no idea what a virus was until centuries later. A small fact that seems to have conveniently slipped by the libtard “brain trust”...

[alexander_busek]

So, flu viruses only survive for 15 minutes [...]

We were talking about smallpox. The Wikipedia excerpt I posted above concerned smallpox.

Regards,

[kearnyirish2]

I thought it was primarily climate (rather than disposition) that made them desirable; there were always runaways, and scattered uprisings. Besides the more widely-known Nat Turner and Haitian revolts, the Danish West Indies (which eventually became the US Virgin Islands) had a bad one, and there was the Denmark Vesey plot in the Carolinas. As time went on and the slaves eventually were native-born, I’d imagine the desire to revolt probably declined as they’d known no other life (or place). Escape was desirable, but the idea of sailing elsewhere must have faded.

[originalbuckeye]

And smallpox is more fragile than flu. But never mind, you are going to believe what you want to believe, and ignore medical science. Viruses cannot be transmitted unless there is some contact with a wet sample. MAYBE if the blankets were still wet from the sneeze, cough or spit, it MIGHT happen. But, as I said, there would have to have been an infected person in the actual group; one who was close to dying already. Do you not see the ridiculousness?

[Verginius Rufus]

If he wants to find Indians he just needs to go a little further south, to Guyana and Suriname. Lots of Indians (Hindustanis) there, along with Javanese.

[alexander_busek]

And smallpox is more fragile than flu. But never mind, you are going to believe what you want to believe, and ignore medical science. [...] But, as I said, there would have to have been an infected person in the actual group; one who was close to dying already.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Smallpox patients became contagious once the first sores appeared in their mouth and throat (early rash stage). [...] They remained contagious until their last smallpox scab fell off. [...] The virus can spread through these materials or through the objects contaminated by them, such as bedding or clothing. People who cared for smallpox patients and washed their bedding or clothing had to wear gloves and take care to not get infected.

Regards,