Except not his "white" American side, which he hates.
Posted on 10/09/2012 9:24:53 AM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – In his presidential proclamation recognizing Columbus Day issued last week, President Barack Obama said the holiday was a day to “celebrate our heritage as people born of many histories and traditions” and a time to “reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore” since the explorer arrived on the North American continent in 1492.
“Today, we recall the courage and the innovative spirit that carried Christopher Columbus and his crew from a Spanish port to North America, and we celebrate our heritage as a people born of many histories and traditions,” the Oct. 5 proclamation says.
“When the explorers laid anchor in the Bahamas, they met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia,” the proclamation states.
“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.”
The proclamation notes that this year marks the 520th anniversary of “that fateful day in 1492.”
It also credits Columbus’ “spirit of discovery” with inspiring “entrepreneurs, sailors and scientists, explorers of the physical world and chroniclers of the human spirit.”
The proclamation also notes that Columbus has “inspired generations of Italian immigrants.”
On April 30, 1934, Congress, by joint resolution, modified the U.S. Code requesting the president proclaim the second Monday of October each year as “Columbus Day.”
Except not his "white" American side, which he hates.
Yes.
A wonderful historical book.'Admiral of the Ocean Sea', by Samuel Morison
He researchs, retraces Columbus' route. Correlates descriptions, drawings w/ his actual sightings.
Fascinating book.
Made me appreciate the extraordinary, difficult voyage.
Crawl in your cave, Obama. NO I am not going to!
Cortez and Pizarro had a lot of help from the Montezuma`s Indian enemies` armies and Pizarro`s Indian mother-in-law`s army, resp.
Maybe some day we’ll find out which one it is.
We did it’s USSR.
Yes.
He also wrote the (I believe) definitive history of the war the US Navy fought in the Pacific. (I have his book on Columbus..it’s quite a read).
“The Indians were run out of China because their moo goo gai pan was too salty.”
The Carib tribe were banished after they served up `Cream of Sum Yung Man’ soup!
the endless apology tour continues
“reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore”...?
Can someone please find Gilligan a community to organize?...
newheart~ “ Dinesh Desouza is right. Obama is driven ideologically by his hatred of colonialism. But it is mostly white colonialism, because he seems to have no problem with the colonialism that results from Muslims conquests. “
The finding of the “New World” by Colombus was inevitable.
Perhaps we should refer to it as : “ World Agenda 1492” .
Since it involved an Italian , sailing under the auspices of Spain, a man whose mother was a Jew , with an international crew , it became a world event.
Ultimately , these same newly found land masses provided areas of new opportunity for the world in minerals , food , trade , etc. ; call it what is is today : World Sustainability .
If the New World was found instead by Muslims , would there have been any less rape , murder , mayhem ,or beheadings of infidels ? I think not !
She has some issues with some of the back-stabbing and re-trading that went on by European immigrants, but overall considers being dragged from paganism to the modern world by a relatively (relatively) beneign invader pretty good.
No less than one third of my ancestors were forcibly shipped to America in chains, then spent generations working the southern plantations as slaves.
Guess what? It's ancient history, and I didn't personally suffer their tragic lives. I can't complain about an injury that I didn't personally receive. What I did receive, is full membership at birth, into the world's freest, and most successful nation. That is all that truly matters.
Just as we should not condemn the son for the sins of the father, neither should we succor the son for his father's pain and suffering.
I don’t disagree; the concerns she has are more contractual.
As in, “we had a deal” and “they broke it.”
FWIW, Mrs. TTR is also a top-knotch medical doctor who married a very, very tall Scot/Irish guy (me).
Not exactly wallowing in racial self-pity.
Oh man ! I'll have to check into that one.
The Battle of Surigao Straits. US Navy v. Imperial Navy....US ships cross the T.
Love that stuff.
Well, I get that. Another third of my ancestors were here before the Europeans, so I guess I've got bitching rights too.
Dunno, but for someone like me, who's basically Neapolitan (as in ice cream), there's nothing better than to simply proclaim myself an American.
*** and their method of conflict resolution:****
Here are some better ways.
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“tribal communities”? Bwahahahahahaahahaaa. So we should say, Columbus came to America to help organize those communities. Yeah, that’s the ticket, Columbus was a tribal community organizer.
Before Columbus and the Spanish and Portuguese explorers discovered the new world the natives were cutting heads off their fellow man as sacrifices to their gods! Many of them were eating one another.
Quite a civilization was flourishing here in North and South America before the Europeans came. That civilization was much like the one created by the ‘prophet’ Mohammed.
People who engage in beheadings, cannibalism and human sacrifice need community organizers, too, you know. /sarc
She’s not at all bitter, more observational.
The feelings in New Mexico are a bit rawer than most areas -— Apache were not permitted to vote in state and federal elections until 1965.
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