Posted on 10/19/2014 9:49:24 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
It so happened that an 11-year-old boy came home from school one day and told his parents that the first European white people who came to America were so mean that they tried to kill the Indians by giving them blankets with smallpox germs. The boy’s father tried to use this as a teachable moment. He asked his son to think if that made sense, even if the first white settlers were that evil. How would they avoid getting smallpox themselves? The boy then let it be known that the American Constitution was written by the Iroquois Indians. The father informed his son that the Iroquois did not have an alphabetic written language, so they could not have written our Constitution. The boy thought about the smallpox contagion problem but would not be dissuaded from his conviction that Iroquois Indians wrote the Constitution.
It also happens that this boy is a direct descendant of those same earliest colonials he had been taught in the public schools to despise. The miseducated schoolboy (now older and wiser) is a 14th-generation American. He descends from an Englishman who, with his wife and eight children, in 1638 sailed on the Susan and Ellen to the land that came to be called New England. The boy’s forbears established the oldest privately deeded homestead in the United States in Windsor, Connecticut. Let us hearken back to that fateful moment on the rough dock in Braintree, England and picture Joseph turning to his wife Mary, as harried husbands do when embarking with a large brood on a lengthy journey: “Honey, didst thou remember to pack the smallpox blankets?”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
George Carlin? ................... A master of common sense humor.
It’s from American Thinker, not the Spectator.
President Obola probably regards an influx of Ebola-infected Africans into the U.S. as sweet revenge for past injustices.
Watch for Melissa Harris-Perry to say exactly that.
Her head’s been fried too often during braiding!
There is documentary evidence that spreading smallpox intentionally to the Indians was at minimum discussed and probably carried out.
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
However, this was during the French and Indian War and was under the British Army, not the American Army.
That myth is widely (wildly ?) taught as “fact” in today’s communist-liberal-socialist colleges, but it is based on a single letter PROPOSING such a scheme by ONE British officer in ONE far-western fort ONE time ...
With NO subsequent evidence it was ever implemented by ANY group or official at ANY other time or ANY other location....
yet, today’s youth are thus corrupted. “But it’s in the (government’s) book” daddy! My teacher said so - You’re a liar!”
Ignoring the incoherence of this sentence, the author is assuming that the present outbreak of enterovirus is USA is caused by the influx of Central American children immigrants. Also that American officials knew these children were infected and dispersed them across the country intentionally.
I realize there's a correlation in time between this disease and the immigrants showing up. But, as every scientist knows, correlation is not causation.
If anybody has evidence of an actual link between the enterovirus and the immigrant "children," I'd really like to see it.
Racial revenge for dragging their ungrateful butts out of the stone age and giving them the gifts of longer lives and modern conveniences.
The Iroquois were my tribe’s mortal enemies and while I’m not an expert on their culture I a bit surprised that they didn’t have a written language by the time the Constitution was written. (I’m looking it up, but it doesn’t look like they developed one by that time, if ever.) My tribe had a written language within a few years of contact with Europeans (and I should note it has been a great blessing to my people since it has preserved much of our history that otherwise would have been lost).
There is documentary evidence that spreading smallpox intentionally to the Indians was at minimum discussed and probably carried out.
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
However, this was during the French and Indian War and was under the British Army, not the American Army.
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We need a definitive analysis by a historian we can trust, rather than conflicting claims that (1) there is “documentary evidence” and (2) there is “no hard evidence.”
And, I might add, the idea that the Iroquois wrote the constitution is absurd. Certain aspects of the Constitution were inspired by the Iroquois confederacy, but even then the influence doesn’t extend to the Constitution’s specifics.
Next to Will Rogers.
If you go to the link, there’s original evidence of possible intentional attempts to spread smallpox to the Indians during the French and Indian War. But by British troops, not by Americans.
As far as a dispassionate account of the facts, I found a neat article.
It discusses the Ward Churchill claims of intentional genocide against the Mandan and other tribes in 1837, and blows it clear out of the water.
It turns out Congress actually had put a program in place to vaccinate Indians. Though probably inadequate, it certainly doesn’t indicate genocidal intent.
In fact, Jefferson provided vaccine for Lewis and Clark to vaccinate Indians as they traveled across the continent. Unfortunately, their vaccine spoiled and became unusable, but again it shows intent to protect the Indians against disease, not wipe them out.
***The belief that early settlers intentionally spread smallpox among the American Indians ***
Especially since the early settlers thought sickness came from bad air, even the London Plague was believed to be caused by bad air. They called that air...Miasma.
We today refer to it as asthma.
Microbiology was unknown back then as was virus.
Didn’t Ward Churchill fabricate some of his so-called history to place blame on Americans? Was he not fired from his Colorado teaching job for it?
Yes, but I don’t think that is what ended his employment. He was found to have fabricated his native American heritage and his “original” artwork.
The Cherokee were in regular touch with Europeans before 1700.
Seqyoyah developed his written language in 1821.
I’m not entirely sure that qualifies as “a few years.”
See the link in post 14.
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