[Corin Stormhands]

'Celebration' banned for Jamestown's 400th--You can't celebrate an invasion

Ohfercryinoutloud...so they're saying "commemoration" instead of "celebration."

The reality is there ARE significant contributions by the American Indians and the African Americans over the last 400 years. But the reality also is that there is a HUGE emphasis on the English settlement beginning with a reenactment of the landing at Cape Henry.

But with concerts, seminars, special exhibits, fireworks, a visit by the Queen and more fretting over the use of one word is just a bit silly.

America's 400th Anniversary: 2007 Signature Events

[Gabz]

Thanks so much for that link!!!!!!!!

[R. Scott]

A lot of people carry that oral history with them, and that's why they use the word 'invasion,' because it truly was an invasion, and I'm sure some of the Indian people will probably want to tell that as a part of the story of 400 years."

Maybe “a lot”, by numbers - not “a lot” by percentage. I know and have know a lot of people of American Indian ancestry - including my late wife (Seminole). I never actually met an American Indian who preferred the term “Native American”. I never met one who carried a grudge for what happened centuries ago.

[Darnright]

>fretting over the use of one word is just a bit silly.<

I'd bet Ann Coulter would heartily agree with you (c;