Should Confederate War Memorials/Statues Be Abolished?
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One side had a legal permit to assemble and rally and hold a protest.
The other side decided to piss on the law and constitution and take baseball bats to shut down the other's free speech rights.
Now we have establishment republicans falling all over themselves to join democrats to claim the second group are the good guys and the first group must be denounced to oblivion.
In a way i'm glad. That much closer to the real slate cleaning we need.
The other side decided to piss on the law and constitution and take baseball bats to shut down the other's free speech rights.
Now we have establishment republicans falling all over themselves to join democrats to claim the second group are the good guys and the first group must be denounced to oblivion.
In a way i'm glad. That much closer to the real slate cleaning we need.
What would Native Americans views be on this?
Native Americans- like other peoples- have selective memory when it comes to formulating their own sense of history.
My point being that it is beyond dispute that slave holding and trading was very, very extensive in both north and south america- both before and after the arrival of Columbus.
The same for the indigenous tribes of Africa. Most of the slaves bought in africa were bought from tribes who had taken captives from enemy tribes- often with arab slave traders facilitating the deal.
America is country where- these days- there is power in being a victim, so there is nothing to be gained for a native american to know this and make it part of their history. To be an oppressor is something that only white folks allegedly do.
America's iconic native woman, Sacajawea was a Shoshone, who was captured in Idaho by a Haidatsu raiding party, taken to Montana and then sold to a Canadian fur trapper into marriage. And so it goes/went........
I'll compare your opinion with some Native Americans when I 'll do my retreat into some of their sweat lodges this winter. Might be interesting to put forward your very good facts and see what they say.