Rally Decries Crimes of Columbus; Stresses Importance of Native Cultures

Cornell Daily Sun ^

[Chet 99]

Parents, this is where your $40k per year tuition money is going.

[B-Chan]

They should get down on their knees and thank God that men of the West conquered their heart-chopping, blood-drinking, cannibalistic Stone Age ancestors.

[SatinDoll]

What a bunch of whiners.

[Tzimisce]

Slavery, conquest, murder, theft - name one nation or culture that didn't do this at some point?

Archaeologists tell us that white people didn't invent these things. Brown people did. Historians tell us that white people said these things were bad. Moreover, white people actually did and are trying to end these things.

They should consider that when they go on another "all white people are evil" rant.

[FormerACLUmember]

The peak of Pre-Columbian civilization:

[LukeL]

I love how people claim North America was peaceful before 1492. Indian tribes were always at war with one another and often killed women and children as well.

[Slings and Arrows]

City Of Evil ping.

[DemforBush]

“While the event began with 16 people, it gradually amassed a crowd of over 40. After the speeches, participants enjoyed Spoken Word poetry and falafel from the nearby Sukkah station.”

Wow, 40 whole people! What a groundswell of hugh manatee!

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder how many were there for the falafel?

[Berlin_Freeper]

This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of Manifest Destiny. Here Columbia, intended as a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she travels; she holds a school book. The different economic activities of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation. The Native Americans and wild animals flee.

[Jack Hammer]

PC crapola.

[I see my hands]

[firebrand]

They’re comparing their “rich indigenous cultures” favorably with that of Columbus’s native land?

[dalereed]

“the top 1 percent of Americans have 35 percent of accumulated wealth; 36.5 million to 37 million people live in poverty”

What’s wrong with that?

[Crim]

“the top 1 percent of Americans have 35 percent of accumulated wealth”

Straight from the young democratic socialists...

[wafflehouse]

from the nearby Sukkah station

no doubt.. they are all Sukkahs now

[Berlin_Freeper]

“the top 1 percent of Americans have 35 percent of accumulated wealth”

How is everyone supposed to own a railroad?

[Stepan12]

Maybe they'll explain the joys of cannibalism as practiced by the Carib indians.

Those fellows are certainly superior to dead white males.

Also, what about the indians elimination of the black mariners who used to populate South America? Something else to celebrate?

[Crim]

“Haudenosaunee woman” ...Oh really...did a two second two finger search..

Oh...no wonder she use use the term “Iroquois”, also known as the Haudenosaunee

I’m loath to post it...but just for a scan of backround reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois

The money quote:

In Reflections in Bullough’s Pond, historian Diana Muir argues that the pre-contact Iroquois were an imperialist, expansionist culture whose use of the corn/beans/squash agricultural complex enabled them to support a large population that made war against other to conquer other Algonquian peoples.

I suggest looking up the “beaver wars”....looks like the young lacy is lying about her ancestors...

They appear to have been warmongering, imperialist, capitalists...

Oh my....someone should send her a clue...