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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day [savage redskins] Los Angeles and Austin, Texas have now joined the list of liberal-run cities that have eradicated Columbus Day from their calendars and replaced it with Indigenous Peoples Day. In LA, the desire to dis the European discoverer was so strong that they rejected a compromise proposal to keep Columbus Day and add Indigenous Peoples Day elsewhere. We need to dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples, said Chrissie Castro of the LA Native American Indian Commission. To make us celebrate on any other day would be further injustice. Most Americans dont agree. A new Marist poll finds 56 percent of Americans admire Columbus and support Columbus Day. They reject the idea that its a holiday about slaughter and enslavement. However, if we really want to commemorate horrifying, unspeakable violence and oppression in the Americas, Ive got the perfect holiday: Indigenous Peoples Day. Long before the white European knew a North American continent existed, Indians of the Northern Plains were massacring entire villages, says George Franklin Feldman in the book Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten. And not just killed, but mutilated. Hands and feet were cut off, each bodys head was scalped, the remains were left scattered around the village, which was burned. When thinking of pre-Columbian America, forget what youve seen in the Disney movies. Think slavery, cannibalism and mass human sacrifice. From the Aztecs to the Iroquois, that was life among the indigenous peoples before Columbus arrived. For all the talk from the angry and indigenous about European slavery, it turns out that pre-Columbian America was virtually one huge slave camp. According to Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865, by Tony Seybert, Most Native American tribal groups practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America. Enslaved warriors sometimes endured mutilation or torture that could end in death as part of a grief ritual for relatives slain in battle. Some Indians cut off one foot of their captives to keep them from running away. Things changed when the Europeans arrived, however: Indians found that British settlers
eagerly purchased or captured Indians to use as forced labor. More and more, Indians began selling war captives to whites. Thats right: Pocahontas and her pals were slave traders. If you were an Indian lucky enough to be sold to a European slave master, that turned out to be a good thing, relatively speaking. At least you didnt end up in a scene from Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom. Ritual human sacrifice was widespread in the Americas. The Incas, for example, practiced ritual human sacrifice to appease their gods, either executing captive warriors or their own specially raised, perfectly formed children, according to Kim MacQuarrie, author of The Last Days of the Incas. The Aztecs, on the other hand, were more into the volume, volume, VOLUME approach to ritual human slaughter. At the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs performed a mass human sacrifice of an estimated 80,000 enslaved captives in four days. According to an eyewitness account of indigenous peoples at workin this case, the Iroquois in 1642, as observed by the Rev. Father Barthelemy Vimonts The Jesuit Relationscaptives had their fingers cut off, were forced to set each other on fire, had their skinned stripped off and, in one captured warriors case, the torture continued throughout the night, building to a fervor, finally ending at sunrise by cutting his scalp open, forcing sand into the wound, and dragging his mutilated body around the camp. When they had finished, the Iroquois carved up and ate parts of his body. Shocked? Dont be. Cannibalism was also fairly common in the New World before (and after) Columbus arrived. According to numerous sources, the name Mohawk comes from the Algonquin for flesh eaters. Anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, reports that the Aztecs viewed their prisoners as marching meat. The native peoples also had an odd obsession with heads. Scalping was a common practice among many tribes, while some like the Jivaro in the Andes were feared for their head-hunting, shrinking their victims heads to the size of an orange. Even sports involved severed heads. If you were lucky enough to survive a game of the wildly popular Meso-American ball (losers were often dispatched to paradise), your trophy could include an actual human head. Slavery, torture, and cannibalismtell me why were celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day again? And were getting rid of Columbus Day to protestwhat? The fact that one group of slavery-practicing violent people conquered another group of violent, blood-thirsty slavers? Thats a precis of the history of the Americas before Columbus arrived. This has always been the fatal flaw of the Lefts politics of race guilt: Name the race thats not guilty? Racism, violence, and conquest are part of the human condition, not the European one. There is, however, one key difference between the European Conquistadors and the Incas, Aztecs, and Iroquois who conquered the Americas before them: In addition to violence and greed, the Europeans also brought literacy, liberalism, and the scientific method, all of which would transform America into the greatest champion of human freedom the world has never known. Do the anti-Columbus activists who claim Europes conquest of America is a sin really want to live in a world where it never happened? Where America is an illiterate, technological backwater of tribal violence and ritual human sacrifice? Of course not. The only reason their ideological idiocy has free rein today is because Europeans showed up in 1492. Happy Columbus Day! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 9.
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The Declaration of Independence refers to American Indians as "savages". I don't think that was done without reason.
Nice tidbit of info. NOT gonna be widely disseminated by MSNBC (just a wild guess.) Btw, I want to thank you for securing LF and all that you do in running this site as well as LP. Your good work should be acknowledged...
Well, as the author of the DoI is none other than the slave owner Thomas Jefferson, they would not hesitate to cite it as evidence of his ghastly hatred for the, at the time, tree-hugging, nature loving native Americans, citations of them taking settler babies and swinging them by their feet to smash their heads against rocks notwithstanding. To be fair, and I will be fair, there were probably many thousands of Indian tribes throughout North America, and there's no doubt that they had differing moral standards between them. And without any historical religious ideology such as Christianity to set a moral standard, they did whatever they felt like doing, which doubtless often would be on par with what many would want to do to Stephen Paddock, were he still alive, and for pretty much the same reasons. In addition, they had to compete between themselves for food, and hunger will make and has made any human culture do terrible things, such as wiping out a competing tribe, and European culture is no exception, at least if you go back far enough. And their killing white settlers was likely a typical case of that, and sparing children and babies would be counterproductive to that logical goal, however savage it was deemed. I understand there were efforts among the tribes to unite against the white race, which if successful could have made a historical difference but they failed due to local greed causing an inability to unite behind a single leader. It would be a interesting academic study to theorize how they would have progressed to this day and into the future if Europeans had never arrived. Perhaps after more centuries of tribal war, it would have finally be united under a single empire spanning coast to coast. Perhaps they would have developed their own true civilization with a recognition for rights and such as happened in Europe, or at least a feudal system similar to China. It's hard for me to imagine that they would NOT have evolved into a decent civilization on their own, as that is the natural course of human advancement. I got the tip from LP's SysAdmin. It was very easy to do. I'd like to see 4um and all other sites get encrypted as well.
I was reading some book years ago that I came across doing a cleanout for someone. It said when some tribe made peace us at I think the north west territory. That once that happened it sealed their fate. Because prior to that every white mans settlements were destroyed. I can't remember the specifics right now.
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