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Posted on 10/13/2003 9:28:38 AM PDT by yankeedame
Columbus' Critics Blamed for Pointing Fingers at Whites
Marc Morano
Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - - On the day set aside to honor the famed explorer of the West Indies, Christopher Columbus is also the subject of protests across the country. But cultural critic David Horowitz has rallied to Columbus' defense.
Protesters who "only point fingers at white people" and allege that Columbus sparked the genocide of millions of Indians, ignore the fact that native populations visited by Columbus conducted their own forms of genocide.
Anti-Columbus demonstrations involve "the same people that celebrate Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Min, Chairman Mao and so forth," Horowitz told CNSNews.com . "And [they] are defending Saddam Hussein. This is ridiculous."
Horowitz is a former 1960s radical-turned-conservative and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of the Popular Culture.
"It's easy to go throughout history and point fingers at people, but of course they only point fingers at white people," Horowitz said, referring to the anti-Columbus crowd.
Columbus' detractors have a selective view of history, according to Horowitz.
"These Indians were genocidal murderers. When do they protest the Aztec murders of virgins? They used to kill 80,000 virgins a year," Horowitz said.
Anti-Columbus protests were held recently on the campus of New York's Cornell University with students accusing the 15th century explorer of being responsible for the murder of more than 12 million Indians and participating in the Caribbean slave trade.
"Without taking a look at our human history, genocide could happen again," said Jason Corwin, media assistant for Cornell's film program, according to the student newspaper The Cornell Daily Sun .
Lloyd Elm, an American Indian studies professor at Cornell University, reportedly told the anti-Columbus rally that "traditional American schools sanitize information" and many students are led to believe that "the history of this great, great, country began in 1492."
The city of Denver, Colo., reportedly spent more than $100,000 on barricades and police overtime pay to prepare for any problems related to activities surrounding Columbus Day.
Horowitz conceded that European explorers of Columbus' time "were probably not too nice of people," but urged would-be protesters of Columbus Day to consider the historical context.
"White men gave to the Indians smallpox, the Indians gave us syphilis," Horowitz said, referring to an issue, the origin of syphilis, that many people still consider a historical dispute. You want to blame the Indians for all the deaths from syphilis in Europe for hundreds of years? I don't think so. You shouldn't blame these colonizers either," Horowitz said.
"It's racism and on the part of the whites, it's self-hatred taken to absurd heights," he added.
David Yeagley, an adjunct professor at Oklahoma University and a Comanche Indian, runs a website that bills itself as "the only voice of conservative American Indian thought." He called the anti-Columbus demonstrators "naive."
"If [the protestors] are trying to be historically accurate they would have to have a completely different message and that includes the history of Indians themselves -- the way we fought against each other with territorial disputes," Yeagley told CNSNews.com.
"I don't have a peacenik image of the American Indian. That is not my people and that is not the true history of Indian people in this country," Yeagley explained.
Yeagley's biggest concern, however, is the psychological impact that Christopher Columbus' critics are having on American Indians.
"It inhibits any Indian person, particularly any American Indian person, from starting out in life with a positive attitude. It puts you on the negative; it is the 'I have been wronged approach to life' even as you are born," Yeagley said.
American Indian youth may be the most vulnerable demographic in terms of accepting the idea that they are victims, according to Yeagley.
"I think that is just crippling to any kind of natural aspirations to young people. This is the most damaging thing that Indians can do to ourselves," he said.
Prove it. Sources and or links please.
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That's only 219 virgins per day - even less during leap years!
Horowitz is great! ;-)
Prove it. Sources and or links please.
It's pretty easy to prove since there aren't even 80,000 virgins left to kill.
Prove it. Sources and or links please.
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I don't down about Horowitz but I can give you a couple of very good sources: Prescot's "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of Mexico". Neither book is a quick read, both books have lots of fine print, and lots and lots of pages, and next to zero illustrations. (And yes, I have read them both.)
And, remember, just because something is bad doesn't mean it's wrong.
ACTUALLY it's a great line to bait the multi cultis with. Let them come up with the real numbers which are quite appalling in their own right. The Aztecs were the Hitler/3rd Reich of that era.
Some obvious parallels to the American invasion of Iraq (except that the Americans and British troops did most of the heavy lifting in 2003). The Aztecs were every bit as nasty to their subjects as the Baathists were to theirs.
That's the idea. The Democrats can't have a dependable voting base unless they have a pool of PVs (Perpetual Victims).
Most Indian tribes preyed on each other like their bothers "the Wolves"... Women were not as valuable as horses.. the peaceful tribes were isolated and rare...
NO, life among the american indians was NOT like a "green peace" seminar.. it was more like a democrat political convention..
Democrat Party-->>If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.
My 50 year old fetus ugh... sister is a 7 month premmie !...
Wonder what God has planned for the U.S.?... The Aztecs did'nt fair too well... Whats the number 1,500,000 abotions this year ? ,,, Some abortions "may" be called for... BUT 1.5 million of them.?.. Its all or nothing for both sides of this issue... gridlock.. while the VIRGINS die... The Aztecs were pikers in the virgin killing game...
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