By: Brotha Wolf

Brotha Wolf — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:52:00 +0000

*APPLAUSE!*

By: Mwatuanghi

Mwatuanghi — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:21:00 +0000

Loved reading this. So many policies that the gov’t implemented as recently as the latter half of last century are just now getting attention, and many have yet to see the light. You can’t imagine how many educated people I’ve had to provide history lessons to, whether it’s the so-called “Indian wars” they don’t have a damn clue about to the literal attempt by New World historians to write Native peoples off the map – I remember Europeans had declared one tribe extinct even though marriage records clearly showed there was a significant population still alive. White Supremacy’s greatest fear when it comes to those who survive is that of a people that aren’t ahistorical and trapped in sanitized fantasies of the past; that are just as modern as they are.

By: Cynical_optomist

Cynical_optomist — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:30:00 +0000

Great article. They are quick and love to throw out the term “get over it” as if their whole legal system and social policies were not set up long before they decided to kill each other over whether or not to continue enslavement. One would argue the policies grew worse after that period with the implementation of Jim Crow, (the law of the land) which only ended; ‘openly,’ after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. For Andrew, that would be 1964, not two centuries ago. Oh, you might say that there was a distinction between Blacks and Indians but, there isn’t. See, blacks were what was left after they effectively massacred the Indian population, indigenous to this country and hid whomever was left, away in the plains (Out of sight, out of mind). This, by they way, was actually worse than terrorism, it was genocide. They destroyed whole cultures,yet, if you were to observe any American conversation where the subject of atrocities committed and by whom, this country and its standard bearer religion hardly ever comes up, if at all. It’s a curious thing because it is as if that just did not happen nor does it register that what actually happened consisted of the very thing we are supposed to be policing, around the world as we speak. This while, deftly avoiding and certainly not acknowledging that we belong right up there with the best of them. Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot can’t hold a candle to us. Nor do they measure up in the heights of hypocrisy. We were fighting for the human rights of Jews and Germany’s neighboring countries, while entrenched in Jim Crowism. They came home and went right back to the status quo, while expecting the rest of us to celebrate the “liberation” of others, between lynchings. Hitler tried, but even he was unable to destroy a whole race of peoples like we did the Native Americans. And goodness, let us not even get into our terrorist tactics in other countries. Both south of us and east of us. Yet, we have to suffer the ignorance of those like the above, whose arrogance allows them to flippantly say “get over it” even as we are in the midst of terrorizing other nations in our name.

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