Should we celebrate “Christopher Columbus Day” or “Indigenous People’s Day”? Which do you prefer and why?
Part of me, as a child of the 70s indoctrinated to celebrate the Pilgrims and Columbus, clings to Columbus Day. My weak rationale for this is along the lines of this:
In a 1988 presidential proclamation, Reagan commemorates Columbus for his spirit: “He was a dreamer, a man of vision and courage, a man filled with hope for the future and with the determination to cast off for the unknown and sail into uncharted seas for the joy of finding whatever was there. Put it all together and you might say that Columbus was the inventor of the American dream.”
Far from a day to remember our divisions or to dwell on past wrongs, Columbus Day is a day to celebrate an American dream that values diversity, yes, but also rewards daring risk-takers. Or as Reagan put it, “not only an intrepid searcher but the dreams and opportunities that brought so many here after him.”
The other view, as articulated at HuffPo, is tinged with a multiculturalist liberal perspective; but not exactly inaccurate. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue … and slaughtered the indigenous peoples he found. Is that all there is to know?
Opportunistic monster or heroic explorer? Why must it be either one or the other and not both?
My opinion on the matter has evolved somewhat since the last time I blogged over this “holiday”.
I’m open to FA readers to sway me to lean in either direction. Should we continue to honor Christopher Columbus Day? I’m partial to tradition; but it’s only been an American tradition since 1934 due to Italian community leaders and the Knights of Columbus. Not all traditions and ideas are a good thing, worth clinging to.
Officially, it’s still a government holiday; but one in which current clime and culture in American life do not seem to really follow and honor. Are there still parades in cities? What is being taught in our classrooms?
Whichever you prefer, happy federal holiday!
Presidential proclamation this year:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
When Christopher Columbus — a son of Genoa, Italy — set sail across the Atlantic, no one could imagine the profound and lasting impact he would have on the world. In search of a westward route to Asia, he instead spotted the Bahamas. As dawn broke on October 12, 1492, Columbus’s crew set foot on a Caribbean island and changed the course of history. For much of Europe, this marked the discovery of the New World, and it set in motion the more than five centuries that have followed.
In a new world, explorers found opportunity. They endured unforgiving winters and early hardship. They pushed west across a continent, charting rivers and mountains, and expanded our understanding of the world as they embraced the principle of self-reliance.
In a new world, a history was written. It tells the story of an idea — that all women and men are created equal — and a people’s struggle to fulfill it. And it is a history shared by Native Americans, one marred with long and shameful chapters of violence, disease, and deprivation.
In a new world, a Nation was born. A resolute people fought for democracy, liberty, and freedom from tyranny. They secured fundamental rights to expression, petition, and free exercise of religion and built a beacon of hope to people everywhere who cherish these ideals.
Columbus’s historic voyage ushered in a new age, and since, the world has never been the same. His journey opened the door for generations of Italian immigrants who followed his path across an ocean in pursuit of the promise of America. Like Columbus, these immigrants and their descendants have shaped the place where they landed. Italian Americans have enriched our culture and strengthened our country. They have served with honor and distinction in our Armed Forces, and today, they embrace their rich heritage as leaders in our communities and pioneers of industry.
On Columbus Day, we reflect on the moment the world changed. And as we recognize the influence of Christopher Columbus, we also pay tribute to the legacy of Native Americans and our Government’s commitment to strengthening their tribal sovereignty. We celebrate the long history of the American continents and the contributions of a diverse people, including those who have always called this land their home and those who crossed an ocean and risked their lives to do so. With the same sense of exploration, we boldly pursue new frontiers of space, medicine, and technology and dare to change our world once more.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage 522 years ago, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 13, 2014, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-ninth.
BARACK OBAMA
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
Do they have a comparable holiday in Mexico to celebrate Hernan Cortez the Spanish conquistador who conquer Mexico and with his men bred a new culture?
When people mouth off about the diseases Europeans brought to the New World remind them of syphillis.
Columbus “sailed the ocean blue” in 1492. Just three years later, in 1495, the first syphilis epidemic broke out among armies in Italy at the Siege of Naples.
There was some debate about whether or not syphilis was in fact a “New World” disease because there are over 50 skeletons that have been found with all the markings of syphilis being the cause of death and that were once thought to date to pre-Columbian times. However, advancements in dating technology and a recent (2011) comprehensive study published in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology looking at all of the skeletons placed those people’s deaths after Columbus returned from the Americas.
The initial syphilis epidemic is thought to have killed upwards of a few million Euopeans as it made its rounds.
And every disease brought to the New World by early explorers was killing those early explorers, too.
They had no immunity or great meds to cure them.
My people came here AFTER the early settlers, after the 2nd wave of Irish famine sufferers, after the waves of Italians and slaves from Africa.
My people were slaves in eastern European feudal societies and didn’t escape until the 1930’s.
So, I’ve got no real dog in this hunt.
Still Happy Columbus Day all!
1492 did not have a country or nationality called Italy or Italian. Chris Columbus was Genovese from the city state of Genoa. His native language was not Italian as Italian was not yet a coherent language, rather it was Genoese which is more akin to Spanish than any Italian. Closer to Spain is the fact that Genoa was for a long time before 1492 under the rule of the Visconti of Milan itself a Spanish ruled city state. As for Italy, well, Italy was one of the names of the peninsula – the Peninsula of Italy, the Apennine Peninsula, among a few others. It’s hard to believe, but Italy is a fairly new country and nation going back to the early 2oth century.
Columbus’ second and more useful language was Spanish and he spent many years in Spain. His brother lived and worked as mapmaker in Lisbon, Portugal. When sailed from Cadiz in 1492 (as did the last ship of Jews on the same morning tide), he was sailing for the Spanish crown, on Spanish money, with a largely Spanish crew and at least one who had converted from Islam to Catholicism. He was the crewman that actually spotted land first and that’s the basis of Islam’s claim on America as an Islamic country.
What Columbus Day should be currently be known for is the beginning of the Hispanic invasion and conquest of the land and indigenous peoples. In 1492, none of those European people now blamed for the devastation and “holocaust” of Native Americans, i.e, White guys, had arrived, yet. By the time boba fide White guys got here, Indigenous Man had already been nearly destroyed by the Hispanic borne diseases smallpox, diphtheria, influenza, common cold, rubella, etc. In fact, when Puritans arrived at Plymouth Rock, the local Indians were already dead from one or more of those many diseases introduced to the Americas by Hispanics. There’s also the possibility that Squanto, the Indian who had been kidnapped to Spain as a slave and later returned to his tribe in time to meet the Puritans, brought diseases with him as a carrier.
Anyway… no. Columbus Day is an Italian nationalist superiority celebration day started in 1934 while Mussolini was rising back home promising to recreate the Roman Empire and promulgated as a grand shopping scam ever since. It’s currently a stupid holiday for Federal union workers who, by the way, denigrate Columbus as a murdering White guy genocider the equal to Hitler.
Also, Indians weren’t called Indians because Columbus thought he had landed in India. He didn’t. He thought he had landed in the “Japans” is which case he would have called the native Taino Japanese. The Taino who greeted Chris were part of the much larger Arawak tribal group, the smaller Taino tribe, and themselves of the particular tribe calling themselves Indio. From Indio to Indian is not a big jump.
But, why Columbus? Because, despite the gross errors and vast luck, Chris developed a usable method for determining longitude that got him back and forth across the Atlantic from Spain to the Americas four times arriving in the exact desired locale. Columbus made global ocean trade and travel possible. His achievement also made global warfare and conquest possible, but that wasn’t Chris’ fault. His predecessors got to America and some got back, but couldn’t repeat the voyage. Columbus did and could, therefore he deserves the credit, but not a holiday.
Little simpleton me says, if it wasn’t for Columbus the ‘indigenous” People in what is now Kommiefornina would still be scrounging for acorns. My suggestions is to the Progressives is to get over it because it’s ‘progress’. Or they can go and learn to eat Acorns.
@Indigo Red:
Very nice!
I think he deserves a holiday. Columbus isn’t responsible for the deaths of the native people. He is responsible for the discovery of the New World. It’s been clearly proven that the Vikings were here first, but as Indigo stated, Columbus was able to repeat the trip. And it would have happened eventually, with or without Columbus. As a nation, we have always recognized great achievements, and what Columbus did was great.
But it always strikes me funny that there is so much hate for Columbus and so much reverence for Andrew Jackson. Here is a man that almost destroyed what remained of the native peoples east of the Mississippi. Not only that, he openly challenged and defied a Supreme Court ruling. Even Obama hasn’t done that….yet. And good ole Andy has his face on the twenty dollar bill.
Glad to see you around, Indigo Red! His post on this topic here.
@Aqua:
Columbus and subsequent Spanish Conquistadors who followed, and other Westerners and immigrant groups, did a lot of horrible things. But if not the West, but say, Islamic imperialists; or Chinese or Japanese invaders/explorers….does anyone believe that war and atrocities committed would not have occurred, had it been anyone other than Columbus arriving here?
A book to check out, if anyone here has not read it, is “War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage” by Lawrence K. Keeley. Savagery and inhuman torture was hardly unique to European conquerors.
@Nanny+G:
Also the myth about smallpox blankets delivered by the U.S. Army in an act of germ warfare.
@Aqua:
For years I would not use $20 bills, simply for the reason you stated. And it always irks me when I hear blacks screaming “but, but…….slavery.” I want to yell at them “but, but…… annihilation.” But Jackson wasn’t the only president that supported the destruction of U.S. Grant did his fair share, especially with the relocation of the Buffalo soldiers who were specifically ordered to a) drive the Indians back into Mexico or b) eliminate them. And the Buffalo Soldiers were good at carrying out those orders, so much so they were awarded many, many Medals of Honor for the slaughter that ensued. So while black children are taught about slavery in our public school systems, how many do you think know the truth about the Buffalo Soldiers that history has lionized?
@retire05:
Yep, Grant is another one. But he ranks high on my list for many other things as well.
@Aqua: N.D will need divine intervention to win this Sat. Another great college football season.
Who is your early final 4?
@RICH WHEELER:
The Noles have been finding a way to win, but I don’t know if that is good enough.
I’m really hoping Mississippi State hangs tough, I’d like to see them there. The other three?
The Noles (hopefully)
Baylor
and I think the last spot is going to be a toss-up between Ole Miss, Alabama, Notre Dame, and Mich State.
Depends on how they play the rest of the season.
Caution is needed when reading Metapedia pages. Wordsmith quoted the Metapedia page above concerning the smallpox blanket hoax which in and of itself is fairly straight forward, but below that is this very disturbing portion of the entry:
“Real genocide of Amerindians
Although all death by disease of Amerindians was unintentional, there was a real genocide of the Amerindians. The only actual genocide of the Amerindians was in Latin America where they were genocided through mass miscegenation with Europeans and Africans, producing the spiritually inferior mestizo race, which unlike the Amerindians no longer can live independently off the land and so are easily manipulable. “
I’m personally no longer certain of the meaning of “racist,” but that paragraph is full of what I once thought was racism, not to mention the obvious ignorance of the meaning of “genocide.” Genocide means to destroy a people because of their genetic lineage. That simply did not happen because genetics was not known until the last half of the 20th Century and was coined at the same time to describe the very act of destroying nations and people just because of their genetic lineage. Amerindians were killed for many reasons, but never because of their genetic makeup.
The notion that the Amerindians of the central and southern continent were destroyed through “mass miscegenation with Europeans and Africans, producing the spiritually inferior mestizo race, which unlike the Amerindians no longer can live independently off the land and so are easily manipulable ” is unbelievable vile. I can think of nothing more disgusting than to claim that the genetic mixing of European and Africans results in a “spiritually inferior race” that cannot “live independently off the land” and are “easily manipulated” should be naturally viewed with anathema and repugnance by any intellectualized person with an eye to cleansing the sewage that is racism.
@Aqua: Agree with Miss. State, Baylor and FSU–Unless Irish pull an unlikely miracle. #4?? LSU could play spoiler with home wins over Ol.Miss. and Bama. MSU wins out as does Oregon who beat MSU. #4 Ducks–FOUR great QB’s battle for Heisman. Of course I’d love to see Golson replace Winston in that competition.
Thoughts on head of Indian Council sitting with Snyder?
Indigo Red Well said.
My take is that Columbus deserves credit for what he accomplished. He does not deserve the hatred that has dumped on him for what others did afterwards.
What they should be denouncing is not Columbus, but the Conquistadors and the Spanish lust for gold. Spain pillaged the Americas and used the ill gotten riches to corrupt the Catholic Church, moving its religious power center to Spain and installed a Spanish Pope who instituted the horror of the inquisition. This corrupt Pope, without any basis in legality other than his position as head of the Catholic Church then declared that all of the “new world” belonged to Spain by holy decree. Spain also used the riches of the oppressed “new world’s” natives (many of whom they enslaved to serve the Spanish invadors,) to build it’s mighty armada to enforce and spread it’s empire of conquest.
It’s hardly fair to transfer the blame for all the ills done by Spain and it’s puppet Pope, to Columbus who died a poor and discarded man.
@Rich Wheeler:
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I don’t have a problem with the Redskins being called the Redskins. The only problem I’ve had with the whole controversy is people telling me it’s not a racial slur. If you call your team the Redskins and you’re not calling me a Redskin, then I don’t see a problem. I’ve been a Cubs fan forever, but I live in Georgia so I like the Braves a well. I have no problem with the tomahawk chop, but I’m not going to do it. I love Florida State and the Seminole tribe supports their mascot. I’m still not doing the tomahawk chop or their version of an Indian war cry.
I think the fans that do it are in no way disparaging the tribe or American Indians in anyway. I also feel the same way about the Redskins. I believe the fans love the name and feel they are honoring the tradition of the team and the former coach.
I think the head of the Indian Council sitting with Snyder was pretty cool.
@Indigo Red:
Thanks for the catch.
The history of civilization is the history of Conquest. Should we wear sack cloth because Homo sapien sapien (Blacks migrating out of Africa) may have wiped out Homo sapiens neanderthalensis?
Get over it.
Nature is about the survival of the fittest. And we should celebrate those who exemplify that fitness like Columbus did.
And just to give you something to think about.
#1. White humans have about 2 to 4 per cent of Neanderthal DNA.
All five parts: The Sky is Falling – or Revising the Nine Times Rule
“In an advanced course in Psychology taken some 30 years ago I learned that the human being is nine times more susceptible to rumor than it is to fact. That simple rule explains a dramatic amount of human behavior.”
Everyone misses the point that the Little Ice Age was right on time for the decent into the next glaciation and that only the Modern Grand maximum (Usoskin et al., 2003c; Solanki et al., 2004) yanked the earth back out… temporarily.
A History of Solar Activity over Millennia
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.3972.pdf
@Gail+Combs: ” The human being is nine times more susceptible to rumor than it is to facts.” That has certainly been proven here at F.A.
@Indigo Red:
And exactly what do you think they were killed for?
@Aqua:
And I’m quite sure they won’t lock up Winston ‘prior’ to the ND game.
Mich State shouldn’t be mentioned amidst those other teams. (for Big 10, none of them will make it)
Which word caught this message into moderation so I can avoid it in the future?
@Rich Wheeler: Dak at MSU (that’s Mississippi State) has lead for Heisman.
@Redteam: Dak leader–say he’s even with Petty but a long way to go.LSU is gonna be a spoiler playing Ol Miss and Bama at home.
How bout your Royals-8 in a row. Will they beat the Giants?
@Aqua:
How is it a ‘racial slur’? It is reasonably accepted that there are 5 colors of people in the world, black, white, brown, yellow, and red. How is calling a black person a black person, a racist slur? how is calling a white person a white person, a racist slur? If someone is discussing the color of skin of various races, then stating what skin color applies to that race is not a racist slur. Stating that an Indian has redskin, a white has white skin, a black has black skin is not ‘racist’.. To infer that it is, is racist. Right now, I’m an LSU fan. The players on the team are known as the Tigers. To refer to the players on the team as Tigers is linguistically correct. To refer to the fans of the team as Tiger fans, is also correct. To refer to the fans as Tigers is not correct. In neither case is it ‘racist’. Instead, it is either ‘correct’ or ‘not correct’.
If you were a ‘gator fan’ would you do a gator ‘chomp’? If you did, would it be a ‘racist’ act? Is the Seminole Indian riding out on a horse, a racist act? Not hardly. People need to get a life and quit wearing their racist colored glasses.
@Rich Wheeler: If you recall, I said the Royals would win it all. Refuse to lose, remember. I haven’t changed my mind.
I don’t think Petty is even in the running. By the time Baylor has lost at least two games, no one will remember his name.
@Redteam: Think Baumgartner bests Shields twice and Giants win in 6.
Got any college football upsets this Sat?
Are you saying Aqua is a racist because he believes redskin is a racial slur?
@retire05:
“And exactly what do you think they were killed for?”
The American Indian was killed for their land of course.
@Gail+Combs:
If you think that is the only reason, you are not historically informed of a genocide that was blatant and deliberate.
@Redteam:
A most succinct distillation of a dominant contemporary conservative American viewpoint on racism. It’s not enough that you’re wrong for pointing out that racism exists; you’re also paradoxically branded a racist. Because racism ended at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (let’s say after all that civil rights act business), thus you’re a racist for stating racism exists, when it obviously doesn’t. Except for you.
@retire05: Normally, I don’t reply to such questions because 1) it’s a stupid question – yes, they do exist, 2) I don’t like to do other’s homework for them. But, since Gail+Combs already has replied, I’ll continue her thought.
Apparently, you don’t know what “genetic” means. It refers to the chromosomes that make every living thing what it is. These chromosomes are made up of genes which carry what has been described as life’s map. Those genes are what is called DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid – made of the proteins needed for life. DNA, genes, chromosomes, though implied by Mendel in the 1850s and 60s, weren’t known until the latter half of the 20th Century thus making genetics a not-possible reason for killing Indians.
The reasons for killing Indians were the standard reasons as given in the mid-1960s by the son of a Yanomami chief from the Orinoco River area — revenge, territory, food, women. That’s it. Those are the reasons practiced by humans all over the world from the dawn of time, or at least, from the dawn of avarice. Even American Indians killed each other for the same reasons long before the Hispanics arrived. But, genetic hatred – not even on the radar (which itself wasn’t known until the 1940s.)
And that’s all I have to say about that.
@Indigo Red:
Ah, yes, let’s start out with the judgmental condemnation, right?
That’s good because I have little tolerance with people who think they are required to give me a biology lesson assuming I am too damn stupid to know what they are talking about.
Genetics also determined the color of the skin, the color of the eyes and hair of native Americans. If you want to say that those genetics did not play a role in why they were slaughtered, then bask in your own idiocy.
@retire05:
Of course I am familiar with the deliberate genocide. The people of my state refused to drive out the Cherokee that were peacefully living here so the US government used men from a different state. The buffalo herds were killed off specifically to starve out the plains Indians. But the ultimate goal was the desire for the land the Indians occupied and the wealth it represented.
Heck the darn Fabian Eugenists convinced the state and the US government to sterilize both blacks and Indian in my state and others up until quite recently. Eugenics is the real goal behind planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood: In Her Own Words and Her bed became a veritable meeting place for the Fabian upper crust (not to mention her connections to Communists and Anarchists) Unfortunately the blacks, Hispanics and others haven’t figured out that the Progressives view them with contempt.
I should add that Former eugenics founded Planned Parenthood director led President Barack Obama’s organization in North Carolina how is that for contempt considering the state of North Carolina is fighting law suits over the involuntary sterilization of blacks.
@Tom: Can one be so blind as to suggest racism no longer exists? Apparently so. I’ve seen it here at F.A
Therefore, when one points out an actual example of racism he is called a racist or race baiter. Mind boggling
@Gail+Combs:
I know you’re new here, but please, I know my own ancestral history. I have also been trying to educate people on the Fabians as well as the Frankfurt Marxists for decades.
@retire05:
I know you’re new here, Gail, but I’m the one who angrily argues with everyone on this site to no apparent purpose. So don’t try to educate me on arguing about everything that everyone writes, because I got that covered here 24/7
@Tom:
You’re a hoot, but you’re also a liberal troll, and knowing that Gail has an I.Q. above room temperature (which Gail has already shown) she will figure that out rather quickly.
retire05
I am glad you are aware of the Fabians. I wish more people were aware of that nasty bunch.
As far as racism goes it is part of:
See the Stranger
Hate the Stranger
Kill the Stranger (or drive him away)
I moved 40 times by the time I was 25 so I am intimately aware of the problem. The in-group is going to pick a trait freeze it and use it as a target. For me the trait was I was lame. Skin color is a useful target but any will do like; a speech problem or being clumsy or overweight, or you dress funny…. The Top Dogs do not want new competition for their position in the group and even the lowest member of a group wants to make someone else on the bottom.
If you put a new mare into an established herd you are going to have missing hair at a minimum or broken bones if you are unlucky. If you put two strange groups together you are really going to have Mayhem. Competition for territory, resources, position within the herd and mates is a survival trait. Lose that competitiveness and you are on the road towards extinction. Socialists want us to lose that competitiveness. It is evident in everything they do. The reason is they want to be top dog and us to be good little serfs who never challenge them.
Therefore I think racism is about as dead as it is going to get within a healthy mixed culture. I am old enough to remember segregation in the south yet yesterday I was at a party talking to one guy from Lebanon, another from Jamaica. I had ladies who were Hispanic, Black and Koran as well as a white guy (with Neanderthal red hair) helping me. I do entertainment for children and I see this all the time. Do I see racism? On occasion but not all that often anymore.
You are always going to run into A$$es and bullies. I learned as a little girl to just ignore them and get on with my life. (It really drives them nuts. It is no fun if the target does not react and I wish the blacks and others would figure that out.)
The real problem is racism is a Red Herring. It is a ‘Lets, you and he fight while I steal both of you blind.’
Racism, gay rights, women’s rights, abortion, global warming…. Are all non-issues used to divert the masses attention away for the real issues like Obama’s war on energy, the massive wealth redistribution to the bankers via Foreclosuregate or the massive wealth redistribution via the World Trade Organization and our job loss to China and India.
Raise the minimum wage? You have to be kidding me!
For American workers to be competitive in the Brave New World of Globalization they must compete with Chinese monthly wages ranging from 1,010 yuan ( $165.62 US Dollar ) to 1,600 yuan ($265.64 US Dollar.) The US monthly minimum wage is ~$1250/month @ $7.25/hr or close to a factor of ten higher.
That is what American workers are really competing against. That is why we lost millions of good paying jobs and are left with store clerks, burger flippers or working for the government as the majority of our jobs.
Like the massive over regulation we are saddled with, raising the minimum wage is not about ‘Helping American Workers’ It is about driving out of business the small businesses that provide half of the US jobs and half the GDP. It is about further crippling American entrepreneurs who have to compete with the government’s pets, the Transnational Corporations.
REFERENCES:
RACISM:
I have a plan to destroy America
The Dismantling of a Culture
The history of how it was done. Five page article with five pages of references. It is an eye opener and the key article that shifted my world view.
History HACCP, and the Food Safety Con Job
1954 Johnson’s 501c3 addition to the tax code, Or How to Muzzle Christian Churches
ECONOMICS:
If you read nothing else read E.M. Smith’s “Evil Socialism” vs “Evil Capitalism” EM really nails the true situation in a short comment. His degree is Economics and his mind set is “Dig here”. (He is much worse than I am, or better depending on yur point of view.)
Small Businesses Drive Job Creation and Job Growth
Congressional Hearing: CAUGHT UP IN RED TAPE: THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS ON SMALL BUSINESSES AND CONTRACTORS
Government report finds regulations have spiked under Obama
(So the government is well aware of the problem.)
How Are Obama’s Regulations Taking Billions Out of the Pockets of Americans?
Obamacare Means Cutting Workers: College Professors Get What They Asked For, Don’t Like It Much
\Federal regulations have lowered real GDP growth by 2% per year since 1949 and made America 72% poorer
\Globalization’s Corporate “Coordination” Master Plan
New Manufacturing Job Losses Reveal Folly of Obama’s Feel-Good China Summit
@Gail+Combs:
Look at the last 60 years and tell me that we have not moved closer and closer to the goals of not only the Frankfurt Marxists in our culture (cultural Marxism better known in today’s jargon as political correctness), but also the process to indoctrinate our children into Marxism using plans laid out by Antonio Gramsci. When Germany turned radical, where did the professors of the Frankfurt school migrate to? Our universities like Columbia and UCLA, to name only two.
The Marxists of the Fabians, the Frankfurt Marxists and the followers of Gramsci, all had one thing we, as Americans, don’t possess; patience. They knew that they could create a revolution, but it would be slow and non-violent. They would infiltrate the halls of our government agencies, the halls of justice and the halls of academia. Slow, steady, sure.
Take a look at Ferguson, Missouri. Who is protesting there? Every Communist/Marxist group in the U.S. They understand the squeaky wheel gets greased. Public schools, which produced our greatest generation, now pump out students who can’t read, do not understand basic math, and can’t tell you who the first President was or when Columbus discovered America. Game, set, match.
@Redteam:
Rarely has the word redskin been the only word thrown my direction. It was usually in a stream that included: chief, tonto, prairie n***er, injun, injun joe, and others that made no sense.
When I reached high school, it was rarely an issue. During and since the time I left the military, I’ve had more people think I’m of Greek descent.
I’ll agree with that. I’ve just never had a conversation where I turned to someone and indicated that we were discussing the whiteskin over there or the blackskin over there. I have said the white gentleman or the black gentleman.
@Rich Wheeler:
It’s nothing compared to what it used to be. Not saying we don’t have a long way to go, but some of the problems are of our own doing, and by “own” I mean Americans, all Americans.
I wrote my senator and asked if he could help change the way federal forms are written, especially the census, but other forms as well. Why isn’t there a box that we can check that just says American? We are so mixed now that checking a race box closing in on insanity. If you want to check a race or multiple races, you can do it. If not, just check American.
@Aqua:
Never, NEVER, in all my years on God’s green earth have I ever had any of those pejoratives thrown at me. My dad used to call me his “little Indian” but only as a term of endearment.
@Aqua:
I’ll agree that’s the norm. And not racist. Using the word Redskins for a team name is not racist either.
@Rich Wheeler:
That’s because he is the one ‘seeing’ racism. I never see racism, other than on computers, (blogs such as this) or in tv shows. I almost, or never, see it in real life, and I live in Louisiana. When I do see it, it is always the racist that is calling attention to it.
@Rich+Wheeler:
Football upsets, actually no. FSU likely winner over ND, but not an upset.
Aqua? no. Don’t think he was pointing out ‘racism’ just that he thinks using a term is a slur.
@Tom:
You’re trying to make a statement about something that wasn’t said. I didn’t say that ‘racism’ doesn’t exist. It clearly does. Otherwise, how could you be a racist when you are pointing it out. I don’t personally run around ‘looking’ for things to put a racist label on. Most deeds and actions are done for reasons unrelated to racism. If a fight is taking place between a black kid and a white kid, many would think and label it a ‘racist’ thing when all it really was is that one or the other of them needed their butt kicked. I live next door to a black family. Have been for 10 years. I have never seen one single thing that they did that I could say they did ‘because’ they are black. Every action I’ve seen the family take was the same as any family would do under the same circumstances.
@Redteam:
Pretty much what I said in #14.
@Wordsmith:
6 Very true. Was anyone ever killed or any savagery in Africa before the white people got there? I’m relatively sure that all races have always killed and slaughtered their own when that is all that was available.
@Indigo Red: 11
First time I’ve ever seen that word. Did it just get ‘invented’? What does it mean? Is it perhaps a way of saying that American Indians are not ‘indians’? That’s what I’m betting it is.
@Rich+Wheeler: 17
And that is one of those rumors that humans are susceptible to, and Rich is the one that pointed it out, who woulda thunk?
@Gail+Combs: 30
I’m sure you’re just clearing up the point that the real problems of the world are caused by the Progressives, Liberals, Socialists, Dimocrats, etc. No disagreement here.
@Rich Wheeler:
I’d say you’re likely correct because most of the time you have to be looking at it from a racist’s perspective to see the racism. If a black and white kid get into a fight, is it because of racism?
@Redteam: The human being is more susceptible to rumor than to fact. Do you question that?
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on it’s shoes.” Mark Twain