Obama Recalls “Tragic Burdens” of Tribal Groups on Columbus Day (Happy Holiday Everyone!)

Fox News Top Stories ^ | By Todd Starnes

[drewh]

President Obama marked Columbus Day by issuing a proclamation that reflects “on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore” in the years that followed the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

“When the explorers laid anchor in the Bahamas, they met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia,” Obama wrote. “As we reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore in the years that followed, let us commemorate the many contributions they have made to the American experience, and let us continue to strengthen the ties that bind us today.”

He called on Americans to “recall” the courage of Columbus, while celebrating “our heritage as a people born of many histories and traditions.

Following is the complete proclamation of what President Obama called “that fateful October day in 1492.”

Following is the complete proclamation of what President Obama called “that fateful October day in 1492.”

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COLUMBUS DAY, 2012

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

[pabianice]

Just wait. Obama will be giving a speech soon bemoaning the plight of the peace-loving Palestinians after the evil Jews threw them out of their ancestral homeland...

[I want the USA back]

What he’s saying is very clear. He hates the discoverer of the New World. He hates everyone who has the same religion as Columbus. He hates everyone who is Italian (he sent 50,000 to earthquake victims in Italy - an insult)
And he hates everyone with skin shades similar to Columbus’s.

[oncebitten]

Well, there goes the Italian vote.

[tumblindice]

I thought it was satire. Obama's such a stooge it's hard to take him series. "Mr. Columbus, let my people go!"

[nascarnation]

As best I can tell, this is quoted accurately.

Here it is on the WH.gov website

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/05/presidential-proclamation-columbus-day-2012

[Argus]

Every story about Obama, I have to check if it’s from the Onion.

Here’s hoping Barry can kiss the Italian vote goodbye!

[bray]

One more reason to get rid of this loser. Shouldn’t he be getting more Chinese & Saudi money through his credit card scam?

Pray for America

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The Carib Indians were cannibals who raised the children of their enemies as livestock. ***

I remember reading, and seeing an engraving by Theodore de Bry, showing Columbus’ men freeing pregnant women who were captives of the Caribs. The Caribs considered newborns to be a tasty treat.

[Cicero]

There was ritual slaughter and slavery all over the Carribean and what is now Latin America. Much as there was back where Obama came from, before the Brits moved in and stabilized things.

Obama’s ancestors were slavers—on both sides.

But blame all your problems on someone else, you jerk! Life is tough in the White House, I’m sure.

[livius]

The usual nauseating stuff.

The noble native peoples were busy trying to kill each other off, so probably the European intervention - at least in the Spanish lands - saved a lot of them and even their culture.

It’s true that Indians in the English lands fared less well, since while the Spanish evangelized them and set up mission villages (self governing, as long as they abided by European Christian practices), the English drove them out of the territories unless they could be used in fighting European wars.

But either way, the problem is that he who has the most technology and the strongest culture (which usually go together) wins, and Indian culture was already in decline. The Indian populations of Mexico hated the Aztecs who had conquered them, and up north, the Iriquois were always fighting with everybody.

So let’s forget the image of the Indian idyll and be realistic about the whole thing.

[MrDem]

Wow, the loser just can’t help himself from poking a sharp stick in the eye of every America loving citizen even on our founder’s day.

[FoxInSocks]

We won.

[wideawake]

You didn’t discover that.

[pburgh01]

The Carib Indians were cannibals who raised the children of their enemies as livestock.

And West African tribes routinely sold captured blacks as slaves. The caricature that blacks were caught in nets like monarch butterflies is a fiction conjectured by Alex Haley for the book Roots. Most slave traders never went further than the beach for black slaves. Liberals sometimes look intelligent but their mental disorder makes them some of the stupidest people on earth. Like human versions of the wild turkey.

[MrDem]

Obama’s ancestors were slavers—on both sides.

True, you can imagine how outraged they would be if on Martin Luther King's birthday, the a Republican POTUS slipped in a line or two how the nation should take a moment of silence in remembrance of all the blacks who were murdered or enslaved by black tribes in Africa.

[Frank_2001]

“I am surprised that obama didn’t celebrate the fact that the indigenous people sent back to Europe syphilis, which took five hundred years to defeat.”

And don’t forget TOBACCO! The’ve had their “revenge” in spades;)

[wideawake]

I forget who said it, but the gist was: "We spotted them the horse and the rifle [both previously unknown in North America] and they outnumbered us for the first two hundred years, and they still lost. Deal with it."

[Vince Ferrer]

Before Columbus:

Mexico finds 50 skulls in sacred Aztec temple

[Jim from C-Town]

Any fair reading of the true history of Pre-Columbian Americas could only come to the realization that the tribal people of the Americas where a stone age people that where brutal savages in every sense of the word.

Even the great empires of Inca, Maya and Aztec where brutal slave holders who dominated the weaker tribes by force and blood lust. They practiced human sacrifice on a massive scale and where not a peace loving people.

They where never the one with nature peoples the Leftists always try to portray.

[boxlunch]

It’s true that Indians in the English lands fared less well, since while the Spanish evangelized them and set up mission villages (self governing, as long as they abided by European Christian practices), the English drove them out of the territories unless they could be used in fighting European wars.

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That is NOT true. The Indians were very well treated by many of the colonists, although it is true the British in some cases did not treat them well, and later on it was a mixed bag depending on the character of those making and keeping the treaties. But to imply the Catholic countries treated the native populations well and the English didn’t is just not true. There was good and bad in both areas.