tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post1265297367256371259..comments2024-01-26T09:29:04.765-08:00Comments on My American Meltingpot: Boycotting Columbus Day: A Native American PerspectiveProfessor Tharpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714326142739366426noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-11518996927052148832012-08-09T07:42:30.033-07:002012-08-09T07:42:30.033-07:00Why people celebrate this massacre it doesn't ...Why people celebrate this massacre it doesn't have sense after all.generic viagra newshttp://www.genericviagranews.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-27526276808888618932012-03-20T20:46:00.419-07:002012-03-20T20:46:00.419-07:00The sad part is that years from now there will be ...The sad part is that years from now there will be native Europeans boycotting various non white days of celebration, and this stupid cycle will continue to manifest itself because of the idea of the 'melting pot'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-34732469582307307092011-10-12T07:04:58.553-07:002011-10-12T07:04:58.553-07:00Anon,
Thanks for sharing. Facts like these stun me...Anon,<br />Thanks for sharing. Facts like these stun me. It's outrageous to me that the we don't discuss what Columbus really did in America.<br /><br />Anon2<br />I'll check it out. Thanks.<br /><br />RIB,<br />Keep teaching and keep preaching!<br /><br />Anon3,<br />I never knew any of those details. Thank you for sharing the truth. I will def keep using my platform to educate others.Professor Tharpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04714326142739366426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-4223678262685334232011-10-10T15:01:24.753-07:002011-10-10T15:01:24.753-07:00http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html<br /><br />Columbus' acts of cruelty were so unspeakable and so legendary - even in his own day - that Governor Francisco De Bobadilla arrested Columbus and his two brothers, slapped them into chains, and shipped them off to Spain to answer for their crimes against the Arawaks. But the King and Queen of Spain, their treasury filling up with gold, pardoned Columbus and let him go free.<br /><br />One of Columbus' men, Bartolome De Las Casas, was so mortified by Columbus' brutal atrocities against the native peoples, that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus' command cut off the legs of children who ran from them, to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus' men poured people full of boiling soap. In a single day, De Las Casas was an eye witness as the Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 native people. "Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel," De Las Casas wrote. "My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write."<br /><br />De Las Casas spent the rest of his life trying to protect the helpless native people. But after a while, there were no more natives to protect. Experts generally agree that before 1492, the population on the island of Hispaniola probably numbered above 3 million. Within 20 years of Spanish arrival, it was reduced to only 60,000. Within 50 years, not a single original native inhabitant could be found.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-51447110742944918372011-10-10T10:00:53.259-07:002011-10-10T10:00:53.259-07:00I don't do anything for Columbus Day because e...I don't do anything for Columbus Day because everyone else pretty much ignores it, but for Thanksgiving I always make myself obnoxious (in everyone ELSE's opinion) by insisting on doing a reading about what the "real" Thanksgiving "really" meant for Native Americans.rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-88081963210290153412011-10-10T09:47:16.833-07:002011-10-10T09:47:16.833-07:00I highly recommend "También la lluvia" (...I highly recommend "También la lluvia" (even the rain) available on demand via netflix. <br /><br />sadiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-85092171221311993322011-10-10T09:39:37.774-07:002011-10-10T09:39:37.774-07:00My husband went to work, my daughter went to schoo...My husband went to work, my daughter went to school and I am taking a semester off of teaching due to an accident I had over the summer. But the University as classes today. Its a non holiday for most people I know (save for my Banker mother) <br /><br />There are all sorts of moves to reclaim Oct 12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il5hwpdJMcg<br />I stand behind this 100%<br />Last fall, I spent a part of my class period explain about how the native population of Cuba, Puerto Rico was wiped out in less than 100 years, etc. I read some stats that I had recently discovered about the genocide of the Caribbean people and will do that every fall for October 12th. <br /><br />I do not buy into any renaming of the Holiday either, Día de la Raza, Día de Hispanidad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com