Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last
To: ConservativeStatement

***The journey killed over 4,000 Cherokee,***

Not so!
https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2217279/trail-of-tears-death-toll-myths-dispelled

“The act caused a spate of articles about how the Cherokees lost 4,000 or more dead on a terrible trek, described as a “forced” march, presumably indicating they were prodded by bullet and bayonet as they moved during the hard winter of 1837-38.

The oddities are: 1) Voluminous records, including those of the Cherokee nation itself, show no loss approaching 4,000 (an actual figure of about 840 deaths was bad enough); 2) The word “forced” insults the Cherokees because they conducted their own march, paid for by Washington; 3) The phrase “Trail of Tears” was never used by a Cherokee in the 1830s, but came into existence under other circumstances some 70 years later.”


21 posted on 09/14/2021 6:40:10 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. 4 hours! Now back in FB jail-again!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

I read a book titled Cynical Theories and reading chapter 8 made me understand the thinking we are up against. It is so much worse than Imimagined. In some ways we have been fighting in the wrong ways. Recommend at least that chapter and the first two.


22 posted on 09/14/2021 6:43:32 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (Breathes there a man with soul so dead...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Now they’re going after Winfield Scott - “Scott’s military talent was highly regarded by contemporaries, and historians generally consider him to be one of the most accomplished generals in U.S. history.”


23 posted on 09/14/2021 6:51:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: butlerweave

😂


24 posted on 09/14/2021 6:55:12 PM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Inventing racism is a pretty lucrative business.


25 posted on 09/14/2021 6:57:25 PM PDT by Trillian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: reasonisfaith
hese people will do anything to please the low IQ kabal.

They are the low IQ kabal.

26 posted on 09/14/2021 7:01:46 PM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Now that he lives outside the bird’s range, “I’m kind of relieved,” he says.

Having a mental breakdown over a bird name.

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.


27 posted on 09/14/2021 7:09:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: reasonisfaith

There is a substantial segment of the population that goes around desperately looking for something, anything to be offended by. “You have the right not to be offended” must be in the living constitution that Democraps are always going on about. It certainly isn’t in my version.


28 posted on 09/14/2021 7:12:38 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: cgbg
Wait until they find all the insults to LGBT in all the names...

Whoa! Leave them tally-whackers alone ya hear!

29 posted on 09/14/2021 7:13:54 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism ruins everything it touches. NUTS - Not United Troubled States.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
a violent history that Stephen Hampton can’t forget.

I am suspicious now that those orioles themselves are racists. You can never be too sure these days. Sports team names. Colleges. Bridges. Those birds? Sometimes they look at me kind of funny. They turn away or fly when they see me staring at them. They may be onto me. Now I can't forget. Wish I hadn't heard that guy's story.

30 posted on 09/14/2021 7:32:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: chrisser

However, I wonder if the black slaves owned by the Cherokee maybe do figure into the calculus.

Go back and look at the tribal rolls, over the years there were many many black Cherokee.
And of course the Cherokee allied with the Confederacy during the Civil war.
Facts is stubborn things.


31 posted on 09/14/2021 7:36:31 PM PDT by Tupelo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Let’s talk about “brain drain”.

Imagine you have a population of people who are not very bright to begin with, and you take the best half of them out every generation. You leave the sickly, lazy, alcoholic, and genetically challenged in the population, to breed the next generation.

That’s what reserve indians are.

It’s not just indians. It happens everywhere all the time.

Are you ancestors the rising distillate, or the leftover sludge?


32 posted on 09/14/2021 7:41:06 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kiryandil

My first few years of public school were at Winfield Scott Elementary School in Fort Scott, Kansas. No wonder I’m such a fascist.


33 posted on 09/14/2021 7:44:03 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

I’m guessing most people, including the Cherokees, have no idea this bird exists, much less who it was named for.
This nitpicking is what happens when busybodies don’t have anything better to do.


34 posted on 09/14/2021 7:55:25 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wiser now
I’m guessing most people, including the Cherokees, have no idea this bird exists

I'm guessing that most Cherokees have no idea that the author exists.

35 posted on 09/14/2021 7:57:20 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: gundog
"Jawohl, mein Winfield! Jawohl, jawohl, JAWOHL!!!"

Could these people beclown themselves any further?

36 posted on 09/14/2021 7:59:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Oh crap.

Even the great legendary Winfield Scott can’t be spared.

Over a damn animal.


37 posted on 09/14/2021 8:07:40 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MachIV

Zimbabwe Ridgeback has a nice ring.

Or maybe Mugabe Ridgeback.


38 posted on 09/14/2021 8:08:56 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

Ummm...”Brazil Nuts”?

The Patriarchy! The Patriarchy!

We should call them “Brazil Ovaries” instead!


39 posted on 09/14/2021 8:10:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeStatement

Meh, whatever.

Gypsies are trash, and they’re not a race.


40 posted on 09/14/2021 8:16:30 PM PDT by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson