Columbus day parade is "hate speech"?
We read:
"American Indian Movement of Colorado. Advisory for October 10 - Columbus Hate Speech Parade. Colorado AIM advises all Native elders and children to avoid downtown Denver, especially the area near the Columbus Hate Speech Parade, on Saturday, October 10, 2009.
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That sure is a broad definition of "hate speech". It makes no sense to me at all. Further comment here
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Well Jon, in case you haven't noticed, just about anything you say in Amerika that someone else doesn't agree with, is now hate speech. How odd (and oh so typical) that the liberals who invented hate speech to protect their favorite political groups, have, in doing so, created more hate.
As we speak, gays have pressured their president and their congress into inventing laws that will in fact, make them a special class of citizen, with rights and protections not granted to the rest of the American people. Example; If someone slaps a queer in the face, it's a far-more serious crime than if someone slaps you in the face. Why? Doesn't that make straight people second-class citizens? And how does that not violate the equal protection clause of the constitution?
Or, does this simply mean that now, since there's a Marxist govt in control, leftist gays can finally do what they've always wanted, to make the US Constitution into a "living, breathing" document, meaning they can now "tweek, adjust, and manipulate" it into just about anything they want.
As it turned out, the parade and protests fizzled due to the 27 degree temperature and snow. I guess AIM did one of their rain dances.
Personally, I think AIM has a point. Look at what happened the last time this continent had unrestricted immigration...
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1980.
1. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:
They . . . brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned . . . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features . . . .They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane . . . They would make fine servants . . . .With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
http://www.ditext.com/zinn/zinn1.html
....actually, Columbus never made it to the "continent" so didn't touch land that would be the "United States."
Thus the Peoples rewriting History of US History is even more pointless than it seemed at first.
I have been on two reservations in my life and both looked like a pig sty. Cars left where they quit running and trash everwhere. Who wants that to spread.
Bobby, if you take a realistic look at how we treated Indians when we we first came here and stole everything they had, you would realize there's nothing that we could now do for them that would make up for our cruelty and criminal intent. We stole their land. We killed-off the animals they needed for survival. We broke almost every treaty we made with them. We took them from their homes and imprisoned them so they wouldn't interfer with our stealing all their land. Now, you begrudge them a few casinos? How are you going to feel when illegal foreigners do (continue to do) the same thing to us?
Hey J. Birch, I don't deny that we did horrible things to the Indians, although Columbus was actually compassionate compared to other pioneers.
"Now, you begrudge them a few casinos? How are you going to feel when illegal foreigners do (continue to do) the same thing to us?"
---Illegal foreigners come here to work, except for a tiny minority that comes here to commit crimes. I don't begrudge them for a few casinos but I don't think they realize how lucky they are. Ever heard of Chiapas, Mexico? Those indians have been at war with the government for decades.
While there are smart indians that have gone to college and better themselves. the Indian community is still afflicted by alcoholism and other problems.
Besides, unlike the "leftists gays" Indians have all the rights in the world. Marriage? Check. Service in the military? Check. Affirmative action? Check. Hate crime laws? Check. If they're going to be bitchy about what the pioneers and others did to them, they're wasting their time. Successful minorities don't live in the past, they look at their present and fight for their futures.
"Successful minorities don't live in the past, they look at their present and fight for their future"
I have to agree with this 110%
"I have to agree with this 110%"
---Thanks, I say something smart once in a while :)
No problem Bobby... I think that applies not only to minorities but to everyone.
Since when does columbus have anthing to do with the native americans in the USA? As far as the indian people in central and south america, i do not think they mourned the conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas.
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