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"He must have come from some broken place which would have caused him to go on a journey like this by himself"
-Actor Scarlett Johansson upon finding out the origin of her ancestors that came to America in 1910 searching for a better life.
Think about this a moment:
-Actor Scarlett Johansson upon finding out the origin of her ancestors that came to America in 1910 searching for a better life.
Think about this a moment:
Her story is like so many stories we see today. People coming to America with no money, but their pockets, hearts and soul are full...of hope. The story becomes one of triumph over adversity...until we say its from Mexico. Then Republicans call it an invasion. Smh
Scarletts family story is so similar to many today. Those that stayed behnid in 1910 were in Poland in 1939 when Hitler came. We all know the sad and horrible story of what happened. It is not such a leap to understand the cartels in Mexico and dictators elsewhere do the same
Isabel y Fernando, vuelven a encabezar con orgullo la Proclamación del Día de La Hispanidad. Por otro lado, Biden se ha inventado el origen del #ColumbusDay🇪🇸 probablemente para meter el componente del racismo🤦♀️
#HispanicHeritageMonth🇪🇸🇺🇸
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#HispanicHeritageMonth🇪🇸🇺🇸
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#ColumbusDay🇪🇸 nació para conmemorar el Descubrimiento de América, celebrar la diversidad del pueblo americano y honrar la memoria de Isabel II y la Corona Española que envió a intrépidos exploradores a descubrir nuevos mundos #SpanishPride 
Desde que vivo aquí (2011) me trae loca lo de que #ColumbusDay haga referencia sólo a los inmigrantes italianos. Es decir, el Día de la Hispanidad celebra la Italianidad (?) Pero qué distopía es ésta???!!!
Read my article in @NativeViewpoint regarding why I will never celebrate #ColumbusDay.
Here is a thread on the atrocities of #Columbus that I also share in a YouTube video embedded in the article.
[Trigger Warning #ChristopherColumbus #thread]
Here is a thread on the atrocities of #Columbus that I also share in a YouTube video embedded in the article.
[Trigger Warning #ChristopherColumbus #thread]
Columbus Day was promoted by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization in the 1930s that wanted a Catholic hero. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the day into law as a federal holiday in 1937.
#Columbus stole a crew member's reward.
Columbus offered a year's salary reward for the crew member who first cited land. Though a sailor saw the land, Columbus said he saw a dim light the night before and kept the reward for himself.
Columbus offered a year's salary reward for the crew member who first cited land. Though a sailor saw the land, Columbus said he saw a dim light the night before and kept the reward for himself.
If you are still observing #ColumbusDay instead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay today here is your annual reminder of what you are celebrating...
CW: violence, sexual assault
CW: violence, sexual assault
Christopher Columbus's army used Indigenous people as dog food. They were known to feed live babies to dogs in front of their horrified parents.
His "voyage" helped start the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade when he captured 1600 Taino people and shipped them to Spain for gold. Most died on the journey.
Ever wondered why the US celebrates an Italian who sailed for Spain almost 300 years before the US existed? Come along! You know the drill.
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#ColumbusDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay #History
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#ColumbusDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay #History
🧵2 | At first only Italian-Americans celebrated October 12 (the “Day of Discovery”) as a way to unite under a single heritage in a country that was not accepting of Catholic/non-WASP immigrants. Remember: for most of US history Italians were not “white” and faced discrimination
🧵3 | Late 19th c “New” Italian immigration surged and so did nativist violence. In 1891 11 Italian-Am men were killed in one of the largest mass Iynching in US history. The Italian gov literally cut off diplomatic relations in response.
Before there was a Statue of Liberty there was Columbia, the female personification of the United States of America. Columbia, also the historical term for the Americas and the New World, was named for Christopher Columbus. Columbus is immensely important to America. #ColumbusDay
Columbus was the singular figure who discovered the New World for European adventure, leading directly to the founding of the United States. “Hail Columbia” was our national anthem. Our capital is the District of Columbia. This picture of his landing hangs in the Capitol Rotunda.
Christopher Columbus was an epochal character and a great man. His achievements cannot be overstated. Thank you, Christopher Columbus, for discovering America and changing the world.
On this day in 1492, America discovered smallpox, racism, slavery, and the Bible. #ColumbusDay
And guns! Sorry, My bad. Guns.
Actually there WAS slavery before Columbus, as shown below. As God I refuse to admit the mistake. Nevertheless, here is the mistake.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_a…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_a…
Today, #ColumbusDay, we celebrate that a handful of bloodthirsty and ultra-Catholic Spaniards committed the greatest genocide in history. In this thread I will tell you the truth about the conquest of America and how the Indigenous People got exterminated.
Pre-Columbian peoples were much more developed than European kingdoms. The calendar, the hieroglyphs or the pyramids were their inventions, never seen before in Europe, Asia or Africa. Such people as Galileo, Vesalius or Leonardo were illiterate next to Incas or Aztecs.
One of the great advances that pre-Columbian cultures contributed to was cardiac surgery. Open-heart surgery was performed atop the temple, while the rest of the population watched and took notes. They were real anatomy lessons.
If you are observing #ColumbusDay instead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020 here is a list of what you are celebrating...
1. Christopher Columbus's army used Indigenous people as dog food. They were known to feed live babies to dogs in front of their horrified parents.
CW: SA
1. Christopher Columbus's army used Indigenous people as dog food. They were known to feed live babies to dogs in front of their horrified parents.
CW: SA
2.) His "voyage" initiated the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade when he captured 1600 Taino people and shipped them to Spain for gold. Most died on the journey.
3.) Columbus sex trafficked Indigenous girls for his own personal profit. He journaled, “There are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”
1. My opinion of #ColumbusDay changed when I read the first chapter of Zinn's The People's History of America. It's just devastating. The book has its problems but just that one chapter is enough to raise dozens of good questions for any reader.
2. The natural next thing to read, even if you don't like Zinn, is Lies My Teacher Told Me. It's shorter, more direct and each page is a "holy shit" of recognizing how much you took for granted from teachers when you were a child.
amazon.com/dp/B0041OT8EK/…
amazon.com/dp/B0041OT8EK/…
3. It's true history has many perspectives - but basic historiography explains this can be made transparent. To teach readers/students to ask more questions. What is History? By Carr is a great short and smart book about the traps of reading history. amazon.com/What-History-E…
Brief thread on Columbus Day observance in Utah.
1. In 2016, Sen. Dabakis tried to change the name of the holiday to "Indigenous Peoples Day" with SB0170. It failed.
1. In 2016, Sen. Dabakis tried to change the name of the holiday to "Indigenous Peoples Day" with SB0170. It failed.
2. Luminaries like Todd Weiler called the deaths of Native Americans a "complicated issue" and protested the word "genocide". Sen. Weiler stated that he would not listen to history being re-written and have the good name of Columbus besmirched.
deseret.com/2016/3/1/20583…
deseret.com/2016/3/1/20583…
3. From the article: Senator Weiler, "If they choose to feel oppressed, that's their right. But another holiday and demeaning someone else is not the way to lift yourself up again".
If you are observing #ColumbusDay2019 today here is a list of what you are celebrating...
1.) Christopher Columbus's army used indigenous people as dog food. They were known to feed live babies to dogs in front of their horrified parents.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2019 CW: SA
1.) Christopher Columbus's army used indigenous people as dog food. They were known to feed live babies to dogs in front of their horrified parents.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay2019 CW: SA
2.) His "voyage" initiated the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade when he captured 1600 Taino people and shipped them to Spain for gold. Most died on the journey.
3.) Columbus sold indigenous girls into sex slavery for his own personal profit. He journaled, “There are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”
Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay, still observed by some as #ColumbusDay. In a #thread, @misscorinne86 of @powwows explains how the movement to reclaim the day began, and why focusing on Native issues is so important: (1/11)
The first officially recognized #IndigenousPeoplesDay in the U.S. started in 1989 when the South Dakota legislature passed a proposal by Governor Mickelson to make 1990 a "Year of Reconciliation" for the crimes of the past. (2/11)
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Though Native Americans have probably discussed the idea of an #IndigenousPeoplesDay since at least the 1970s, the idea gained popularity in 1992 when a group of Bay Area Natives pushed back on a planned reenactment of Columbus's arrival. (3/11)
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Thread...
Thread on The TRUTH about #ChristopherColumbus and #ColumbusDay -
After Reading and Watching this...Ask Yourself, "Is This Someone That Deserves to be Celebrated?"
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Thread on The TRUTH about #ChristopherColumbus and #ColumbusDay -
After Reading and Watching this...Ask Yourself, "Is This Someone That Deserves to be Celebrated?"
newsmaven.io/indiancountryt…
These Are COLUMBUS' OWN WORDS, NOT MINE:
“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.”
“As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.”
Upon Arrival, Columbus Said:
“They willingly traded everything they owned…They do not bear arms, They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
This Tone, Then Changes...
“They willingly traded everything they owned…They do not bear arms, They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
This Tone, Then Changes...
1. The Church provided the moral/theological grounds for the dispossession of natives and “discovery” of the New World. It did so by issuing papal bulls such as Inter Caetera (1493), written by Pope Alexander VI the year after Columbus’ voyage. #ColumbusDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay
2. This bull established that any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed by rulers in the name of Christ. It granted Spain by divine authority “full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction of every kind” to conquer most of the Americas.
3. Inter Caetera didn’t stand alone. In fact, it was a reiteration of, and elaboration upon, the moral reasoning of prior papal bulls. For example, the bull Dum Diversas, issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, appealed to “Apostolic Authority” and granted the Portuguese crown:
This is one of the most uniformed pieces I've read. 1 Columbus wasn't a brave explorer. He was a guy who thought Earth was shaped like a pear with a nipple on top. The reason no one would fund him was they knew the size and shape of Earth and wo land a super ocean was uncrossable
2 he never even sat foot on our mainland, and he was almost 500 years after Lief Erickson and his sister Freydis (often left out even though she's a bad bitch). He apparently wasn't smart enough to bring someone familiar enough with the Indies to realize this wasn't it.
He and his crew raped women and children and sold girls as young as 9 into sex slavery (per his own journal). It was so bad native women killed their own children then themselves when they heard the Spanish were coming.
