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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Dick Gregory said about Columbus:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/21/dick_gregory_in_his_own_words".....And so, some kind of way, when you stop and think about, we got to change the books. The books is sexist. The books is racist. I mean, give me a break. Columbus discovered America? Everybody knows that punk got lost. I mean, where was the Indians when he got here? No, this is serious. No, no. Trust me. If you can discover a country thats already occupied, I take it personal. I can walk out on the parking lot today and discover your car with you in it. Huh? Shut up and get in the back seat and teach me Thanksgiving.
I mean, finally, let me just say this. If you went home today, and me and some black dudes had taken over your house, killed your animals, I mean, destroyed everything, killed everybody in the house, and you come stick your key in the door, and we open the door and said, And what are you doing here, savage? And you say, Who are you? And we say, We the settlers. Now, how would you feel? But go and look at the American history. We come here, took their land, destroyed them and called them the savages and called us the settlers. And we print that in our history books."....(more)
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)malaise
(268,955 posts)And the lies continue - settlers my ass.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Thanks for posting!
malaise
(268,955 posts)bdamomma
(63,840 posts)to this day are still being abused and mistreated. The white man sucks doesn't he??
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)I could tell you stories
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Thanks for posting this.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Columbus Day is great.
I also have enjoyed spending time in Columbus, Ohio.
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Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)had a Native American on it and the caption read - 'America - Love It or Give It Back!'
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Have you seen the T-shirt that has 4 well known Chiefs on it that says "The Original Homeland Security"
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And the white supremacists are still at work trying to purify the nation and throw out anyone not passing their purity tests.
"The island of Cuba is now almost completely depopulated. San Juan [Puerto Rico] and Jamaica are two of the largest, most productive and attractive islands; both are now deserted and devastated. On the northern side of Cuba and Hispaniola the neighboring Lucayos comprising more than sixty islands have the healthiest lands in the world, where lived more than five hundred thousand souls; they are now deserted, inhabited by not a single living creature. All the people were slain or died after being taken into captivity and brought to the Island of Hispaniola to be sold as slaves. When the Spaniards saw that some of these had escaped, they sent a ship to find them, and it voyaged for three years among the islands searching for those who had escaped being slaughtered "
"More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated "
"As for the vast mainland, which is ten times larger than all Spain, we are sure that our Spaniards, with their cruel and abominable acts, have devastated the land and exterminated the rational people who fully inhabited it. We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million."
"Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time "
" the Indians began to seek ways to throw the Christians out of their lands. And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house. They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike. They took infants from their mothers' breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, 'Boil there, you offspring of the devil!' Other infants they put to the sword along with their mothers and anyone else who happened to be nearby. They made some low wide gallows on which they hanged victim's feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive. To others they attached straw or wrapped their whole bodies in straw and set them afire. With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim's neck, saying, 'Go now, carry the message,' meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the mountains. survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves."
Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote his Brevissima relación de la destruycion de las Indias (A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies), as a letter to the King of Spain, to complain of the atrocities and to support abolition of enslaving the populace.
H2O Man
(73,536 posts)Dick Gregory was a great man. Thank you for this.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Changing a textbook out holiday name accomplishes nothing.
We should all be leaving this country to the ancestors of the original indigenous people.