Kamala Harris says US ‘must not shy away’ from ‘shameful past’ of Columbus Day

NY Post ^ | 10/13/2021 | Lee Brown

[ChicagoConservative27]

Vice President Kamala Harris has said that the US “must not shy away” from the “shameful past” of how the first European explorers “ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations.”

Harris made the comments Tuesday to the National Congress of American Indians, saying it was “an honor” to address them “as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” the newly recognized name for Columbus Day.

“Since 1934, every October the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americans,” she said.

“But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Said the woman descended from jamaican Slave holders! (And the high Brahmin caste India indians....)

America's original sin was SLAVERY! Oddly and Sorta right....lets start talking about the "first peoples" (might have been second...TBD) engaging in systemic slavery!

Powhattan (Father of Pocahantas) had slaves, the Cherokee had slaves and supported the Confederate cause, the plains indians had slaves (Sacajawea was a slave...), The eastern indian tribes raided and took slaves, The Huron and Comanche had slaves that they would tortured to death so were as bad as any European, etc. That one missassipian burial mound just east of St Louis had a burial for a chieftain that held skeletons of something like 20 young women sacrificed to accompany him in in the after life. Captives or slaves, same thing. The original sin predated Columbus.

https://nationalvanguard.org/2020/07/slavery-nearly-universal-among-native-american-indian-tribes-prior-to-white-settlement/

"ACCORDING TO Almon Lauber’s booklet, Indian Slavery In Colonial Times Within The Present Limits Of The United States, published by the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University in 1913, slavery and the slave trade were nearly universally practiced among the ‘Native’ Indians prior to the appearance of the White man on the North American continent:"

From when honesty still existed at Columbia University.

[TheConservator]

Racism in action. Anti-Italian racism.

[OldGoatCPO]

The reality is not pleasant and nobody wants to dispel the myth of the noble savage. There were serious injustices and even genocide by the Federal and State governments. The Trail of Tears being the worst example since the Cherokee adapted to the modern world and adopted European ways, too successfully for expansionist whites. But most tribes were not the noble savages portrayed by novelists and Hollywood. They were dirty, brutal and savage. They had no problem brutally murdering women and children. Those they did not kill were enslaved. Some tribes did not enslave its conquered. However, they still gave the women and children to warriors or elders to use as they pleased. Some were simply incorporated into the tribe. Other died from neglect and abuse. Mexicans hated Native tribes. Blacks and Whites fought against them. It was the modern world versus natives still living before the Bronze Age. Horses, guns, metal edge weapons and tools were all brought to the tribes by Europeans. They did not even have the rudimentary metal casting skills of 1200 BC Celts. Throughout European history, tribes still living in the Stone Age were destroyed and enslave by Bronze Age or Iron Age tribes. It was the same in America. The modern world pushed Stone Age Native American Indians towards extinction, that is societal evolution.

[McGruff]

[Insert Facepalm Here]

[gundog]

Can America at least get a pass for the things that happened before she existed? A lot of what Kammy describes was attributable to Western European imperialism. And disease? Who do you blame for disease?

[gundog]

Should the BIPOCs be allowed to use feathers from Chinese birds in their “native” headdresses?

[Vision]

She’s a racist, lecturing fool.

[two-edged-sword]

Brilliant!

[Verginius Rufus]

Since the original indigenae were natives of central Italy, we should go with Thomas Jefferson's term (in the Declaration of Independence): Merciless Indian Savages Day.

Abraham Lincoln's grandfather was working on his farm one day when he was killed by an Indigenous Person.

[Vaduz]

There is no “shameful past” of how the first European explorers.
If it were not for the European explorers tribal nations would have not became civilized however she is living proof that some tribes never made the transition.

[elpadre]

Columbus never landed on the North American continent.

“On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus sighted Cuba, which he thought was mainland China, and in December the expedition landed on Hispaniola, which Columbus thought might be Japan. He established a small colony there with 39 of his men. The explorer returned to Spain with gold, spices, and “Indian” captives in March 1493 and was received with the highest honors by the Spanish court. He was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century.

During his lifetime, Columbus led a total of four expeditions to the “New World,” exploring various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central American mainlands, but he never accomplished his original goal—a western ocean route to the great cities of Asia. ...”

[Tommy Revolts]

Would she be talking about the shameful past of Italians and Spanish then?
Does that include the Portuguese also?

[Sam Gamgee]

Well, we don’t have Columbus day in Canada, but I could never understand the opposition to Columbus. The guy never made it to mainland North America, and he didn’t take part in the horrible treatment of natives. But check out the Spanish record and it is multiple times worse than what the Americans did, say under Jackson.

[sauropod]

/eyeroll

[Salvation]

Columbus was not shameful. Is it because he brought Catholicism to the western world that you hate him?

[Pennsyltucky Boy]

Finally, Something Kamala has deep experience with… a Shameful Past.

[Trillian]

Coming from someone whose family owned slaves. lmao

[maxwellsmart_agent]

There is absolutely nothing shameful about remembering Christopher Columbus and his contributions to civilized society. Only hidden socialist politicians like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden would try to slander an exporer like Columbus to advance their agenda.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

So it is!