Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer have been scrubbed from reading lists.
That is pretty much how I remembered it back when I read those things as a kid.This has always been idiotic, seeing how the point of Huck Finn was that Jim is a person who deserves to be treated as well as anyone else, and Huck is willing to risk everything because of that.
I suspect you're not all that and they would have been fine.Now that would have been interesting. My husband laughed at your comment and said he would feel sorry for the people who would have argued with me.
There appears to be an underlining subtle attitude that Native Americans just need to get over the past atrocities committed against their ancestors.
With all the hoopla over the Confederate flag, its easy to forget that there are plenty of other racist symbols in America.
Mount Rushmore for instance was built on top of a Sioux holy site, by a sculptor who also carved figures of Confederate leaders into a Georgia mountain.
I guess he didnt know about Australia.I don't know if this is off topic of your OP, but a friend of mine shared this quote of MLK on Facebook and I wanted to share it with you.
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”
I would say that the only difference between African and Native Americans is yes America has done better when it comes to our African American brethren; but it has not as of yet done so for Native Americans. Driving through any reservation will bring that to clarity.To be clear, I am not saying that Native Americans "just need to get over the past atrocities committed against their ancestors". I understand why these things bother people. They probably should bother people. They were a horrific mistake and should be a lesson on what not do going forward. I am not telling anyone not to feel upset or bitter.
All I am saying is that, for me, America is more than a collection of mistakes and times where we've failed to live up to our ideals. Sometimes, we get things right, and we have even, and this is probably only a mild exaggeration, saved the world once or twice as well (See: World War 2). We also laid out a set of principles that I think, if we lived up to them, and when we live up to those of them we sometimes live up to, it would and does make the world a better place. We don't always live up to our ideals and do the right thing, but I don't think I want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say that destroys all the good ideals we have and the good that we have done.
I understand why a Native American or an African American might see things differently, though, and I am not trying to deny them their feelings. I get where they're going from. We've historically treated those groups very poorly and only recently begun to do better in the grand scheme of things, and need to get better still in the future.
I guess he didn't know about Australia.
We live in a world of individual demand and outrage if the minority dont get their way. [think temper tantrum]With all the hoopla over the Confederate flag, its easy to forget that there are plenty of other racist symbols in America.
Mount Rushmore for instance was built on top of a Sioux holy site, by a sculptor who also carved figures of Confederate leaders into a Georgia mountain. The United States forcefully stole the Black Hills from the Sioux, kidnapped and "educated" Sioux children, confined Native Americans to reservations, and then carved up their holy mountain with half done portraits of white men. Hmmmm....that seems pretty hateful and racist.
Yet where is the outrage over this monument? As we speak there are probably tens of thousands of U.S. citizens flocking to Mount Rushmore for a 4th of July fireworks show. Mount Rushmore clearly is a symbol of "national pride" to many people, and they are willing to look past the fact that it has imperialistic qualities left over from manifest destiny. Is this not what the CSA flag is to many Southerners? A symbol of "pride" that has many negative connotations?
As Catholics we need to evaluate whether it is proper to be venerating national symbols, like flags or monuments, at all.
And again - Irish are excluded...or unknown i should sayThere appears to be an underlining subtle attitude that Native Americans just need to get over the past atrocities committed against their ancestors. I can't help but wonder if a non-Native American would ever go up to a Jew and tell them to just get over the Holocaust. It's the past after all, so therefore, it should no longer matter.
"America was built on two monumental crimes: The genocide of the Native American and the enslavement of the Africans. The tendency of official America is to memorize other people's crimes and to forget its own to seek a moral high ground as a pretext to ignore real issues." - Mahmood Mamdani
We live in a world of individual demand and outrage if the minority dont get their way. [think temper tantrum]
Thats the point of votes - what the republic [majority] want.
Or used to be.
Now its racist to do much anything these days...especially MOST especially - voice an opinion in opposition to the popular sins of the day.
The flag thing is neither here nor there for me - so much.On the contrary, Warrior Angel, we live in a world now where racism, hate, and oppression against minorities and certain other classes of people is becoming less and less
acceptable by the general populace. The minority are starting to stand up and are beginning to lift their voices louder to speak out against racism and social injustice. As a minority person myself, being Native American, and having had to struggle with racism and discrimination in my own life, I'm very pleased and relieved to see this starting to happen again in this country. And I hope that fairly soon in the future, the majority who support that confederate rag or any other symbol that glorifies racism, hate, and oppression will soon become the minority and any attempt to further perpetuate racism, hate, and oppression in this country will be silenced.
I think the difference would be that decedent's of Irish immigrants today are no worse off than the average American. But Natives as a whole are still much worse off than the average American.And again - Irish are excluded...or unknown i should say
Irish had it worse than the African slaves.
Im from the Irish ancestry - and though i find what occurred reprehensible - and horrible - we cannot undo the past and no one today was present. [or at least not to my knowledge]
I know of little - basically not even sure if visitors are welcome in the communities.I think the difference would be that decedent's of Irish immigrants today are no worse off than the average American. But Natives as a whole are still much worse off than the average American.
I know of little - basically not even sure if visitors are welcome in the communities.
I know they have what seems like their own nation within the nation.
I know their health care [and anyone a quarter Native [?] get it for free.
Cool. Maybe someday i could visit.In the communities I frequent, as long as a non-native person is respectful of our people, our elders, our way of life, and our culture, then they are welcome.
Yes, that is true.
I wouldn't exactly call our governmental funded "health care" system proper health care.
I would say that the only difference between African and Native Americans is yes America has done better when it comes to our African American brethren; but it has not as of yet done so for Native Americans. Driving through any reservation will bring that to clarity.
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