Mount Rushmore (1745m) is a mountain sacred to the Sioux called Six Grandfathers. Whites desecrated it with the faces of four white men carved into its side in the early 1900s.
Location: 43.878947,-103.459825, near the centre of North America, in the Black Hills of the American state of South Dakota. The Black Hills are sacred to the Sioux. The American government in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie said the Sioux would have the mountains forever. Forever lasted eight years: whites discovered gold and the government broke the treaty. Whites made billions. In 1980 the government offered the Sioux $105 million (17 million crowns). The Sioux say that as sacred land it is not for sale. The UN says that as sacred land Mount Rushmore should be returned.
Dates: When each face was completed:
- 1930: George Washington
- 1936: Thomas Jefferson
- 1937: Abraham Lincoln
- 1939: Theodore Roosevelt
Brainchild of: Doane Robinson, white man, South Dakota’s state historian. In the 1920s he wanted his state to cash in on the new car tourism, but needed a reason for people to drive to the state.
Artist: Gutzon Borglum, white man, Klan member and egomaniac, then best known for the Confederate soldiers carved into the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Why four American presidents: Robinson wanted huge statues of Lewis & Clarke, Buffalo Bill or Red Cloud. Borglum said they needed subjects with nationwide appeal. Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln were no-brainers. Theodore Roosevelt was Borglum’s friend and hero. Historians might have chosen Woodrow Wilson instead. In 1937 some wanted Susan B. Anthony. There is no space for a fifth face.
Nickname:
- Shrine of Democracy (White version),
- Shrine of Hypocrisy (Native version)
Best viewed: in 300,000 years when wind and rain will have worn it down to what Borglum had in mind.
Meet the four white men:
Two were slave owners. All four were racist against Native Americans:
George Washington (president 1789-1797) – believed Indians to be inferior to Europeans. He bought and sold Indian lands without tribes’ permission. As commander of the Continental Army he ordered the “total destruction and devastation” of Iroquois towns. His men raped and killed women and children.
Thomas Jefferson (president 1801-1809) – bought the Louisiana Purchase, on which Mount Rushmore stands. He said of Natives: “this unfortunate race has justified its extermination.” In the Declaration of Independence he wrote of “the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Abraham Lincoln (president 1861-1865) – ordered the largest mass execution in American history: 38 Sioux men, chosen at random, no trial, no hearing, in order to put down an uprising of starving Indians in Minnesota. Lincoln oversaw the takeover of Native lands in the western Plains and the Rockies.
Theodore Roosevelt (president 1901-1909) – took Native lands and called them “national parks” and “national forests”. He said Natives were “squalid savages”, “whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless, squalid, and ferocious than that of the wild beasts”, that North America “had to be taken by the white race.”
Sources: Mostly Frontline, Teddy Roosevelt, Lakota Country Times, Huffington Post, Indian Land Cessions, “Mirrors” (2009) by Eduardo Galeano; “Where White Men Fear to Tread” (1995) by Russell Means and my post Notes towards a Native American history of George Washington.
See also:
And they say black people worship a gangsta culture. SMH.
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I just had a combination Charlton Heston “Planet of the Apes” / HG Wells “Time Machine” moment 😛
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Would that be considered a form of reparation? Could the Sioux then be allowed to do as they see fit, whether that means removing the faces, or by changing the narrative in regards to those faces?
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@Kiwi,
What would be a reparation then? Having the US government restore the mountain to approximate its original appearance and pay for leasing it for the past 135 years?
BTW, you know what they refer to it in Chinese? – Zong3tong3shan1 (總統山) – President mountain. — No reference to the Sioux. They have a miniature replica of it in Shenzhen as part of their “Windows of the World” theme park.
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Do you think this affection us whites have with monuments is weird? The Greeks, the Romans, French, English all white society’s went for monuments to themselves and their culture. Other than Egypt and the Meso Americans, are there any other cultures that built non-functioning stone structures? (This assumes that the pyramids didn’t have a function other than a tomb – I could be wrong on that)
Were there any great building societies in Africa? How about Native Americans – any permanent settlements similar to cities?
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@ Riverside_Rob
Does Google not work for you? China alone has literally thousands of stone monuments. Ever heard of the Great Buddha? Longmen Grottoes? Mausoleum of Shao Hao? Yungang Caves?
The Chinese were building some of these while your (and and likely many of my) ancestors were still barbarians. This is what Tacitus had to say about the Germanic tribes:
“…they do not form villages, with the buildings connected and joined together. Every person surrounds his dwelling with an open space, either as a precaution against the disasters of fire, or because they do not know how to build. No use is made by them of stone or tile; they employ timber for all purposes, rude masses without ornament or attractiveness. ”
A bit of perspective?
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@ abagond why do my comments automatically go into moderation? Strange given that I very rarely comment on this blog at all.
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Jefe:
The Sioux seized the land by force from other groups. Why do you think it proper to return it to them?
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How the Sioux allegedly originally obtained rights to the land is actually a moot point (not insignificant or not unimportant, merely moot).
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) indicated that both the US Government and the Lakota tribes recognized the entitlement of that land to the Lakota in perpetuity. The US government unilaterally seized it back in 1877. US courts and the UN have both ruled that the US did not have title to the land.
Unless the US govt can prove that the Treaty was made in bad faith, the US is the one in violation of the law. NOW, it might be negotiated that some of the land should actually go to the Cheyenne or the Ponca, some of whose ancestral homelands was seized by the Lakota Sioux, but it certainly is not proper for the US government to keep it all to themselves. If they honor the treaty, they should both return the land and pay the reparations.
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The UN says that as sacred land Mount Rushmore should be returned.
Returned to whom? The Souix? Or the Arikara, Assinboine, Chippewa, Hidatsa, and Mandan tribes whom they took it from only a few years before? I wonder if the mountain was sacred to them as well.
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jefe
If they honor the treaty, they should both return the land and pay the reparations.
Incorrect. The treaty was violated by both sides. First, by renegade gold prospectors. And then by repeated attacks by Souix. This led to the Black Hills War which abrogated the treaty.
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Good post. It reminds me of the well written and moving historical account I read a few years back — Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
The book delves into some of the violence and oppression suffered by First Nation people at the hands of WHITENESS, Amerikkkan invasion/occupation/expansionism & so-called manifest destiny.
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Quoted from an earlier comment:
“Returned to whom? The Souix? Or the Arikara, Assinboine, Chippewa, Hidatsa, and Mandan tribes whom they took it from only a few years before? I wonder if the mountain was sacred to them as well.”
The point being that not a single person of European descent can lay claim. Return it to any of those people. That would be okay with me.
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Anne
And not a single person of African ancestry can lay claim to the land where you live. Perhaps you should return it since you feel so strongly?
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[…] Location: Near the centre of North America, in the Black Hills of the American state of South Dakota. The Black Hills are sacred to the Sioux. The American government in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie said the Sioux would have the mountains forever. Forever lasted eight years: whites discovered gold and the government broke the treaty. Whites made billions. In 1980 the government offered the Sioux $105 million. The Sioux say that as sacred land it is not for sale. The UN says that as sacred land Mount Rushmore should be returned. […]
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@ Jokah
“Incorrect. The treaty was violated by both sides. First, by renegade gold prospectors. And then by repeated attacks by Souix. This led to the Black Hills War which abrogated the treaty.”
No. It was violated by whites. Your ancestors. Stop lying. This is difficult for you Eurodescendants. Try it.
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And frankly, the people to whom this land is sacred should destroy this “monument”. It’s fucking ugly anyway.
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Is there is any hope for “white” people to take off the blinders and see true reality? They really need the help. Education with the truth…not white washed versions of the truth…. is the only answer. But they have an escapist ideology that would prevent anything from getting through. Sad…just sad. Maybe their” white” Jesus will help them out. My non Aryan, Jewish, brown skinned, Jesus would beg to differ though.
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Is there any hope for minority lefties? I mean all they do is whine about WP and are the most disgustingly unpatriotic people I’ve ever met(this blog is oozing lefty, whiny traitors left and right). Look my little racist peons, racism is kept alive by two types of people…The white liberal and the minority victim egomaniac. One needs votes and money….the other is not so happy with his station in life, his history(or lack thereof) and his self worth.
Abagond and other race baiting sites are just food for racists on either side of the fence…one type of racist uses blogs like this to feed his/her victimhood and whine about the past/// the other to use as ammunition to enforce their particular racism.
You want to end racism and improve POC lives? Stop voting for your democratic liberal slave master who wants to keep you dependent and poor….and vote RIGHT! That is the first big step! You can do it!!!!
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why worry in 300,000 years ,all of the populations involved will barely be remembered ,if that and any group could easily destroy it.
As for land being sacred, isn’t that a religious term,a belief amount some big rocks that where here for billions of years ,will be here billions more and eventually will cease just like everything else on this planet and of this universe?
BTW I thought most native americans(man I hate this term) didn’t believe in owning or possessing land?
Also reminds me so much of the Olmec heads or the easter island heads.
Wonder if any of those groups F’ed over some original inhabitants to make monuments to their leaders ?
Anyway another nice deconstruction of white/albinic culture and hegemony.
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@ October
Or better yet vote neither because none of the parties you mentioned are in anyway interested in the well being of people of color.
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But hey…I don’t expect and ill informed peon such as yourself to know any better. 🙂
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@October
Yeah!, because the party that will save us from slave masters is the party whose electoral base consists of the Old Confederacy.
GTFO.
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@ Mbeti
I was thinking the same thing too. The Olmec heads are sculptures of real men, just like Mount Rushmore, but no one remembers who they are – and it has only been 3,000 years since they were made. In 300,000 Mount Rushmore will just be “art by early man”. No one will have any idea who these men are.
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Another thing to compare Mount Rushmore to is the Clock of the Long Now, which wants to remain in operation for 10,000 years:
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” Look my little racist peons, racism is kept alive by two types of people…The white liberal and the minority victim egomaniac. One needs votes and money….the other is not so happy with his station in life, his history(or lack thereof) and his self worth.”
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OCTOBER, you’ve stepped outside of your job description when you disengaged yourself from the other months of the year. You should stick to do what you were designed to do — just keeping tracks of the days and weeks of *your* month.
Lone renegade pages known as MONTHS should leave the heavy lifting to those more able/capable.
That’s real, rational, non-delusional, flesh and blood w/a soul/spirit people.
Happy Halloween!
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“Sad…just sad. Maybe their” white” Jesus will help them out. My non Aryan, Jewish, brown skinned, Jesus would beg to differ though.”
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I recall while watching a talk show years ago a white woman standing up in the audience and adamantly anouncing that Jesus had to have been white because he was depicted as white in every painting (lol) she’d ever seen of him!
(The topic of the show, as I recall, concerned, a made-for-TV movie in which a Black actor portrays a modern day Jesus Christ.)
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Ha!
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“Artist: Gutzon Borglum, white man, Klan member and egomaniac, then best known for the Confederate soldiers carved into the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia.”
So that’s the name of that bastard who carved that awful sculpture on side of Stone Mountain.
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“And not a single person of African ancestry can lay claim to the land where you live. Perhaps you should return it since you feel so strongly?”
Agabond, how does a person who does not know me claim to know both where I live and my ethnic ancestry? I can honestly say I live where I have a right to be. As do my relatives. Maybe you need to get a better group of trolls. The ones on this thread assume too much and know too little.
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These fools on Mt. Rushmore should not be honoured, they should be thrown in the rubbish bin like Hitler b/c they planned and carried out the well-defined genocide of the original inhabitants of America.
In time, Americans will come to realise this and demand the gov’t deface these gangsters’ vile images and replace them with more peaceful, respectable figures.
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I know it’s probably unpatriotic of me, but I always thought that Mt. Rushmore was an eye sore. And now that I learn the racist history behind it, The blantant disreguard of the whites towards the Native Americans makes it even more ugly.
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white people jealous of the sphinx and the olmecs …
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I used to think these carvings as a flag of European conquest over North America. Now it seems more like a symbol of White Triumph over the people that were raped and murdered, and a monument to that great achievement.
And, what is this talk of Olmec Heads, Sphinx and such?
Oh, no, no. This is quite another association.
These carvings are far more akin to the sculpture of the 3rd Reich.
These carvings show more of the Aryan Aesthetic than anything else, with all the neo-classicist trimmings..
Note the work of the Nazi’s sculptor-in-residence, Arno Brekker:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfMuNgPLQms)
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Abagond said:
Wasn’t it Theodore Roosevelt who said only the dead Indian was the good one? When you say he “took Native lands”, do you mean he illegally nationalized the lands without consent and knowledge of the occupiers, violating treaties?
I’m also not sure of the purpose of making all this land into “national parks” and “national forests”. Although that sounds like preserving the natural wilderness for generations to come, I am wondering if the real idea behind it was for Roosevelt to grant permits for logging and lumber, mining and fishing instead?
This would make him quite the thief. But what is the point of leaving the ownership of land to people who don’t know how to exploit it to its utmost and make a decent profit from those natural resources…
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Comment in moderation, but why?
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When I say this: “But what is the point of leaving the ownership of land to people who don’t know how to exploit it to its utmost and make a decent profit from those natural resources…” I mean it as the way Roosevelt must have .
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Would have been easier to understand if Bulanik had enclosed the sentence in quotation marks (or “inverted commas”).
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@ Legion, yes, I was being ironic of course (although I never see that word here, only “sarcasm”).
I have to say though, that I must re-read A LOT of the comments here to get the sense of what a commenter is saying.
@ Jefe, WHAT?
“Where would dumb little dyslexic me be without your regular tutorials and advice, huh?”
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Sorry, bulanik, it was not meant as a criticism. I just meant to say that I misread at first, but that perhaps that simple change might have made it clearer (so that we know it was not your words).
Maybe I should have explained better myself, never mind. 😛
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@ Jefe, I doubt if I am the only one who is perfectly happy with everything they write after they actually read it back. I don’t just mean typographical mistakes.
I could pick over yours, jefe. Really, I could.
But I don’t.
I don’t because I realize that you’re human, and I am more interested in what you mean, which is what interests me, even if you’re not always crystal clear.
If I don’t understand, I’ll just ask.
I sometimes feel singled out for extra-attention and extra-fastidiousness, for picking out and picking on. Understand? I want you to stop that.
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@Bulanik, are you confusing me with someone else? I have always welcomed your contribution here. Have I ever singled you out for anything?
Yes, I know I have pressed “submit” before cleaning up the typos or unclear sentences. Everyone does that to some extent, but only Abagond can go back and correct them.
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Well, jefe, that’s rather mighty of you. I enjoy what I read of yours, too.
What’s bothering me is that you seem to be picking on my writing.
I make no secret about the issues I have with writing — so why would you bring your attentions to it again and again? I want you to stop that. And if you can’t, then make sure you do it to every other commenter that frequents this blog-site. If you don’t understand something I say, just ask me.
Of course I am not confusing you with anyone. Why would I do that?
Have you considered that you might be forgetful, not paying proper attention to what I actually write through your own prejudices and appear selectively condescending to go with it?
Granted, you might be none of those things, but let me remind you that this is not the first time you have questioned me about whether I am “confused” or not. That was on the Tainos thread. On that thread you ALSO told me what I must realize and should accept! You said this despite my understanding the argument and language of the post and my saying so repeatedly.
The fact is, like any other commenter, I may may raise perspectives and ask civil and pertinent questions as I see fit without being talked down to by you.
On another thread I asked Abagond to correct a typographical error, which he sometimes does (in my experience), and again you took it upon yourself to tell me: “It is very difficult and time consuming to go back and correct old posts for someone else. Maybe better if you just rewrote it and ask him to delete the old one.” (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/if-you-like-this-blog-you-might-also-like/#comment-193819)
Are you going to start correcting my spelling next?
Do you subject all the other commenters here to the same rigours?
Somehow I don’t have that impression.
I also find it so strange that you, somehow, don’t know what I mean, hence this question: are you confusing me with someone else?
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I think I sound irritated ^^ 😀 😀
That said, jefe, it’s very, very easy to misunderstand another stranger, in writing, on a forum like this. I believe we have always appreciated and respected each other’s commentaries, and I certainly want that to continue.
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Bulanik, I never thought I was picking on you for anything. I thought our intercourse was always cordial. I just thought there were a few topics that you preferred to drill down towards. I didn’t realize you were being defensive.
Well, if you feel like you are being browbeaten or hectored, please feel free to say so. But, I think that you did suggest that some others made some comment about your reading or writing. I didn’t think it was me, but maybe you saw me as part of that army or something.
But probably should get back on topic or Abagond will say that Bulanik’s punctuation is “off-topic”. 😛
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Abagond,
Would you please do a post or at least comment on the parallel, racist, “Christian” theologies out there that aid and abet white supremacy? I truly believe it is the main reason why racism is soooo intractable in US society. It is also why Sunday morning remains the most segregated time in US. That is pretty ironic huh? So much for love thy brother and Jesus is love yada,yada,yada….. The US has been rated the most racist country in the world behind Russia,Australia,UK and India. Good Lord! South Africa didn’t even make the top ten! Now I am embarrassed. I hope October and the rest of his ilk find knowledge or some help…. a psychologist … a faith healer…..a.rabbi whatever ….this society can only improve. Oy Vey!
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Regarding my previous comment, I wonder if it is the responsibility of people of color to educate and enlighten dominant society (aka de white folks).There is a fair amount of willful ignorance to be overcome. That is the problem.
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@ Jefe, you finally understand so no need to play perfect prefect anymore 🙂
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@Jacque:
I think it’s in Mormon doctrine that the “mark of Cain” (the murderer of Abel) was black skin, so it was ok to enslave and discriminate blacks. And the pseudo-biblical logic for the slaughter of natives (here in Brazil) was that natives were anthropophagous, so they couldn’t resurect, so they didn’t have a soul.
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@Jacque
No. We just need our own society and render their prejudice irrelevant to our lives.
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@Albmont
“I think it’s in Mormon doctrine that the “mark of Cain” (the murderer of Abel) was black skin, so it was ok to enslave and discriminate blacks.”—Actually I believe it started with southern white baptist but was adopted by Mormon. The Mormon doctrine itself does not say specifically that the mark of Cain was black but rather it was a belief among those of the church.
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@bulanik, am new here but I have a question to ask u. U look like an indian and you frequent this site bcos I also frequent it but this is my post. My question is why do you come hear when you come from the most racist country on planet earth, so I guess u are fighting against racism . Well if you aren’t Indian pls let me know so I will know whether to continue or not. As my name states am from nigeria
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Indeed, I didn’t know that the UK was the “MOST” racist country on the planet and part of Bulanik’s multi-ethnic family comes from the Caribbean as well. How is it that Emelie veered discussion in that direction on a post that is about an iconic white American landmark located on land that whites seized from Native Americans?
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Ok she is multi ethnic . Do you know why I posted that? I said that because from my studies of racism and various cultures I hv discovered that all other races have a feeling of superiority towards blacks and it is clearly hypocritical for them to come and join in a black antiracist blog just because their dearly beloved whites have rejected them and put them a tad lower than whites and a little above blacks. The Indian caste system is more horrible than anything white America has done to blacks and it continues till today still sanctioned by their government, religion and family. Talking from personal experience in nigeria , indians or pple of indian descent have no business criticizing pple of racism, I heard that in the Uk FOB indians come expecting a warm welcome from whites until they get shocked by racism but even with that they still try to prove that they are just a little better than blacks. Their obsession with color is insane even whites are not that obsessed with color.
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Do you really understand about America? Your personal experience in Nigeria can be enlightening for all of us, but each place has a different dynamic. You can share yours, but you can also listen to others.
It sounds like your studies have not included a lot of things. Do you want me to tell you how ethnic Indians are treated in Malaysia or Hong Kong? Their experience will be very different from places where ethnic Indians make a larger portion of the country, eg, Guyana and Mauritius. And have you not heard of the racially motivated mass shooting last year in Wisconsin? Did you learn about the Miss America contest this year?
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@Jefe , are you an indian? Why are u defending bulanik. Indians turn to underdogs in foreign lands because they are dark skinned and the eurocentric racist model is popular worldwide but that doesn’t change the fact that their culture promotes whiteness above everything and totally despises dark skin. And pls I heard of miss davuluri and I hope u know that she would have no chance of being crowned in india as a beauty pageant. I also heard of the Wisconsin shootings , try and read up on daily dalit killings in india and how untouchable the black dalits are . Also read up on the jarwa of india and maybe you will catch my drift. The indians are like the irish who suffered alongside black americans but immediately they were uplifted I guess u know the rest of the story .
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No one said Indians in India were perfect. In fact, they are professed to be more overtly racist than Americans, who have learned that it is not pc to be overt. at least when polled.
and i have lived in 4 ex-british colonies – who hasn’t?
Anyhow, that is not that relevant. Han Chinese vilify Uighurs in China, but were raped and murdered during the various ethnic cleansing campaigns in Indonesia. Probably no one is 100% immune. But this post is about a white history icon that hides a bloody past, yet even white commenters are invited to reply.
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Ok I will keep it on topic but it doesn’t change the fact that the bulanik character belongs to the most racist ethnicity on planet earth and is a racist by cultural association(guilty by association). I rest my case
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@legion, pls don’t rekindle fires , I no get una strength this morning or u no wan make e pass.abeg free me .
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Reblogged this on Life in Anglo-America.
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I believe every one should stop fighting. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt were all great men for our country , but they also had their bad moments. Every one makes mistakes no one is perfect. Yes it was wrong for them to do all that stuff to the Native Americans but all of you need to calm down. At least we as Americans have a fairly good government and Freedoms. Without those four men our country wouldn’t be very good. Without them we wouldn’t have the freedoms we have now. We have the freedom of speech, religion and many more. All of you should be happy that you live in America , America has a lot of freedoms that others don’t have. This is also the reason we have so many different cultures and heritages in our country that others don’t.
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Most folks are still in blissful ignorance, because they´re simply too lazy to educate themselves, plus history taught in these schools is a joke!
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Most people aren’t taught the bad things that people in history have done. Why? Because people like to focus on the positives in life. Unlike most people that look at the bad things in life.People shouldn’t have to tell you about the bad things people do. Racism can be a mistake.
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mistakes are to be learned from.
it is said that history is suppose to teach those of present times about the mistakes from the past, so that we learn from them and won’t repeat them in the future. By ignoring mistakes (e.g. genocide denial) only the perpetrators benefit. They won’t be judged, adequately punished nor will their conscience challenged (if there is one, most of these people are coldhearted sociopaths, of course). The victims and future human beings to come will lose and suffer the consequences.
Those that stay blissfully ignorant keep repeating the same mistakes over and over and over again until they finally face the harsh, raw truth and break that foul cycle of ignorance. Only the bitter truth of the past and ensure a much more pleasent future for humankind.
I live in germany. We are quite honest with our history. At least in my history class both the good part and the dark part of a person or an event are mentioned. And it is always not only about what a historical person did but their motives. And we come to realize that 87% of the time, presidents, chancellors, kings or queens have done good things but for the wrong reasons.
What I’m trying to say is that i cherish the (sometimes cold) honesty about history that i was tought with.
No sugar coating, no cherry picking.
Most historical figures are selfish human beings after all and I as a human can understand that. But no sugar coating.
Maybe i should bring up an example:
Before the 1870s Germany was pretty much ripped into dozens and dozens of counties. When Otto von Bismarck united all the german states (under the power of prussia) a lot of people were happy. To have a united country after such a long time of seperation was great. BUT historians also realized that he didn’t follow any grand ideals. He did it for selfish reasons (to make Prussia even more powerful).
With that example I simply wanted to show that historical figures should never be viewed from one side of the medal. None of them were good and pure beings to be worshipped (I personally have to call those giant statues a form of worshipping)
But enough of that. Have a nice day.
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Damn nice to know there are still smart people in the world.
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And the farmer hauled another load awayyyyyyyyyyyyy! You all are wasting my air. Am I going to get that back? Oh my sacred air, gone forever.
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@B Rad (RacelineCentral)
Lost of air might be why you made such a brain dead comment.
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This argument is a racist viewpoint.
Of only slight value in present discussions which look forward; not backwards; a viewpoint stuck in the 19th century
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Yesterday Trump had his disgusting klan rally to rail against removing of monuments. He used hate rhetoric to further fan the flames of hatred and division on land stolen from Native Americans, while spreading the virus of COVID-19 and spreading the virus of hatred and ignorance.
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The creator of Mount Rushmore a Danish American named Gutzon Borglum was an avowed racist and card carrying KKK member.
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I hope the Native Americans get to blow Mount Rushmore to smithereens.
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Trump had his klan meeting on stolen land at a monument carved by a white supremacist to honor men that enslaved black people and committed genocide against indigenous people. This is a pretty accurate celebration of America.
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