Posted on 10/13/2016 6:40:14 AM PDT by pabianice
Blah blah blah
Why don’t you talk about the sensitive, noble and peaceful indigenous people that committed genocide and killed all the Vikings that settled in America?
Give me a break, back then either you killed or got killed, unfortunately here the Indians was mostly died through imported European diseases.
Columbus was a great man, and when rejected by his own Portuguese kings he went to a foreign country, Spain, where he didn’t even know the language, and convinced their kings for their suppport to engage in a dangerous exploration trip into the unknown. He deserves his day.
Why are they bringing indigenous people into it? It’s insulting , it’s is not their day, pick another day to honor them.
You mean like now? If the first black woman president has her way that will happen in January 2017. Cuz she "...ain't noways taaarrred..."
“...let’s talk about indigenous peoples”
Let’s NOT and say we did. Just more people trying to tell me I’m wrong because of the color of my skin.
Top 10 Deadliest Native American Tribes
http://www.thetoptens.com/deadliest-native-american-tribes/
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A letter from Major James Crawford to Governor Haldimand at Quebec, dated Fiago, January 3, 1782 (intercepted and printed in an American newspaper) :
Pages 140-141 (Hardcover) "From Sea to Shining Sea" :
May it please your excellency: at the request of the Seneca Chiefs, I send herewith to your excellency under the care of James Boyd eight packs of scalps cured, dried, hooped and painted with all the Indian triumphal marks of which the following is an invoice and explanation.
No. 1. Containing 43 scalps of Congress soldiers, killed in different skirmishes; these are stretched on black hoops, 4 inches in diameter; the inside of the skin painted red with a small black spot to denote their being killed with bullets; also 62 farmers killed in their houses, the hoops red, the skin painted brown and marked with a hoe, a black circle all around to denote their being surprised in the night and a black hatchet in the middle to denote their being killed with that weapon.
No. 2. Containing 93 farmers killed in their houses . . . white circles and suns to shew that they were surprised in daytime. Black bullet on some, hatchet on others.
No. 3. 97 farmers, hoops green to shew working in fields.
No. 4. 102 farmers. 18 marked with yellow flame to shew that they were burned alive after being scalped. Most farmers appear by hair to be young or middle aged.
No. 5. 81 women, long hair; those braided to shew they were mothers.
No. 6. 193 boy's scalps of various ages, white ground on the skin red tear in the middle.
No. 7. 211 girls scalps, big and little, small yellow hoops marked hatchet, club, knife, etc.
No. 8. Mixture 122 with box of birch bark containing 29 infant scalps small white hoops. Only little black knife in middle to shew they were cut out of mothers body.
Attached note of Seneca to Governor Haldemond [sic]
Father: We wish to send these over the water to the great king that he may regard them and see our faithfulness in destroying his enemies, and know that his presents have not been made to an ungrateful people.
Father: The kings enemies were formerly like young panthers, they could neither bite nor scratch; we could play with them safely; we feared nothing that they could do to us. But now their bodies are becoming as the elk and strong as the buffalo; they have also got great and sharp claws. They have driven us out of our country for taking part in your quarrel. We expect the great king to give us another country.
A historic fraud, since Columbus's journals record only 4 voyages to the New World, and he never set foot on either North or South America. On his fourth voyage he screwed up and trying to escape a violent storm, might have set foot on what is now the eastern border between Honduras and Nicaragua. He also introduced a European insect pest, inwhat is now referred to as the Mosquito Coast.
So Columbus cannot be given credit for any calumny about indigenous genocide.
Natives from West Africa arriving in outrigger canoes did all that genocide stuff.
This is all recorded in the Annals in the vast library of the University of Timbuktu, which vanished withouta trace.
How did it get to Timbuktu?
Don't ask; that would be raciss.
The End.
Which was only fair, because they carried back to Europe a panoply of nasty tropical diseases and yucky plants, like tomatoes and potatoes; well, not Columbus, personally; that came later....
SATIRE PEOPLE...SHEESH..
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