"What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?"
By Thomas Friedman
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/what-if-trump-did-actually-shoot-someone-on-fifth-avenue-20180829-p500fd.html
Friday, August 31, 2018
"What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?" By Thomas Friedman
"What if Trump Did Actually Shoot Someone on Fifth Avenue?"
The Origin Of White Supremacy: "An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States"
Many thanks to daughter Maria for introducing me to "An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States."
Last Christmas she gave me her own copy.
Here is American History Professor Robin D. G. Kelley's (UCLA) summary description of "An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States."
"This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime."
"An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States"
Last Christmas she gave me her own copy.
Here is American History Professor Robin D. G. Kelley's (UCLA) summary description of "An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States."
"This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime."
"An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States"
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Winner of the 2015 "American Book Award"
Autobiographical Sketch
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
My mother was part Indian, most likely Cherokee, born in Joplin, Missouri. Unenrolled and orphaned, having lost her mother to tuberculosis at age four and with an Irish father who was itinerant and alcoholic, she grew up neglected and often homeless along with a brother. Picked up by authorities on the streets of Harrah, Oklahoma, the town to which their father had relocated the family, she was placed in foster homes where she was abused, expected to be a servant, and would run away. When she was 16, she met and married my father, of Scots-Irish settler heritage, 18, and a high school dropout who worked as a cowboy on a sprawling cattle ranch in the Osage Nation. I was the last of their 4 children. As a sharecropper family in Canadian County, Oklahoma, we moved from one cabin to another. I grew up in the midst of rural, Native communities in the former treaty territory of the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations that had been allotted and opened to settlers in the late 19th century. Nearby was the federal Indian boarding school at Concho. Strict segregation ruled among the Black, white, and Indian towns, churches, and schools in Oklahoma, and I had little interchange with Native people. My mother was ashamed of being part Indian. She died of alcoholism...
... In my own political and intellectual development studying colonialism and imperialism in Africa and the Americas and supporting national liberation movements, I found a kindred soul in 1975 when I met Howard Adams (1922-2001). Howard was a Métis political leader from rural Saskatchewan, a Marxist, and professor of Native American studies at UC Davis, recruited by Jack Forbes. Howard was the first academic I had met who had grown up as poor as I had, about which we had many conversations. His heartrending and elegant 1975 memoir -history of the Métis and their great leader Louis Riel, Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View, now a classic, became a template for my own research and writing."
"An Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States"
Excerpt
This cross-class mind-set can be found as well in the stance of descendants of the old settlers of British colonization in North America. This then is the first instance of class leveling based on imagined racial sameness - the origin of white supremacy, the essential ideology of colonial projects in America and Africa. As Ellie Wiesel famously observed, the road to Auschwitz was paved in the earliest days of Christendom. Historian David Stannard, in American Holocaust, adds the caveat that the same road led straight through the heart of America. The ideology of white supremacy was paramount in neutralizing the class antagonisms of the landless against the landed and distributing confiscated lands and properties of Moors and Jews In Iberia, of the Irish in Ulster, and of Native American and African peoples."
Alan: The ability of blood-based bias to unite the interests of "the landed" with the interests of "the landless" is currently reflected in the "common cause" binding hardscrabble poor whites to bubble-dwelling Donald Trump, a billionaire plutocrat with a predilection for gold-plated toilet seats.
"Indigenous Peoples' History Of The United States"
reviewed by the Zinn Education Project
Excerpt, Chapter 4, "Bloody Footprints":
"Indigenous people continued to resist by burning settlements and killing and capturing settlers. As an incentive to recruit fighters, colonial authorities introduced a program of scalp hunting that became a permanent and long-lasting element of settler warfare against Indigenous nations. During the Pequot War, Connecticut and Massachusetts colonial officials had offered bounties initially for the heads of murdered Indigenous people and later for only their scalps, which were more portable in large numbers. But scalp hunting became routine only in the mid-1670’s, following an incident on the northern frontier of the Massachusetts colony. The practice began in earnest in 1697 when settler Hannah Dustin, having murdered ten of her Abenaki captors in a nighttime escape, presented their ten scalps to the Massachusetts General Assembly and was rewarded with bounties for two men, two women, and six children.
Dustin soon became a folk hero among New England settlers. Scalp hunting became a lucrative commercial practice. The settler authorities had hit upon a way to encourage settlers to take off on their own or with a few others to gather scalps, at random, for the reward money. “In the process,” John Grenier points out, “they established the large-scale privatization of war within American frontier communities.” Although the colonial government in time raised the bounty for adult male scalps, lowered that for adult females, and eliminated that for Indigenous children under ten, the age and gender of victims were not easily distinguished by their scalps nor checked carefully. What is more, the scalp hunter could take the children captive and sell them into slavery. These practices erased any remaining distinction between Indigenous combatants and noncombatants and introduced a market for Indigenous slaves. Bounties for Indigenous scalps were honored even in absence of war. Scalps and Indigenous children became means of exchange, currency, and this development may even have created a black market. Scalp hunting was not only a profitable privatized enterprise but also a means to eradicate or subjugate the Indigenous population of the Anglo-American Atlantic seaboard. The settlers gave a name to the mutilated and bloody corpses they left in the wake of scalp-hunts: redskins.
This way of war, forged in the first century of colonization – destroying Indigenous villages and fields, killing civilians, ranging and scalp hunting – became the basis for the wars against the Indigenous across the continent into the late nineteenth century."
William Tecumseh Sherman And U. S. Grant Coordinated The Destruction Of Native America
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/william-tecumseh-sherman-and-ulysses-s.htmlChristopher Columbus Was A Pimp And A Sex Slave Merchant
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Cartoon: Bone Spur Is Not A Hero. (He Is, Primarily, A Vindictive Self-Interested Liar)
Donald Trump is an assh*le.
A Single Dose of Marijuana-Based CBD Reset the Brains Of People At High Risk Of Psychosis
A Single Dose of Marijuana-Based CBD Reset the Brains Of People At High Risk Of Psychosis
Snopes: Did Sen. Lindsey Graham Call Trump a ‘Race-Baiting, Xenophobic Bigot’ in 2015?
Did Sen. Lindsey Graham Call Trump a ‘Race-Baiting, Xenophobic Bigot’ in 2015?
An online graphic accurately quoted the South Carolina Republican disparaging his then-opponent on CNN
Total Commitment To Trump: Conservative Christians Can Rationalize ANYTHING
Trump Hosts White House Dinner For Evangelical Supporters
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/642871570/trump-hosts-white-house-dinner-for-evangelical-supporters
"My Gripe With Christianity"
The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence
"Has America Lost Its Mind?" 1A's Brilliant Interview With "Fantasyland's" Kurt Andersen
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Many Christians Live In An Unbreakable Bubble Of Biblical And Theological Dunderheadedness
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Kushner Companies Fined For Filing False Real Estate Paperwork Over Several Years
Kushner Companies Fined For Filing False Real Estate Paperwork Over Several Years
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Between Shambhala And The Catholic Church: On Being a Contemplative In Imperfect Institutions
Between Shambhala And The Catholic Church: On Being a Contemplative In Imperfect Institutions
Snopes: Were John McCain's Last Words A Foul-Mouthed Attack On President Trump?
Were John McCain's Last Words A Foul-Mouthed Attack On President Trump?
California Just Passed 3 Major Gun Laws: It's Time For The Rest Of The States To Catch Up
California Just Passed 3 Major Gun Laws: It's Time For The Rest Of The States To Catch Up
José Sabino Odilón Xochipiltecatl Carvente Obtiene Certificado De Secundaria A Los 85 Años
Alan: Mil gracias a mi amiga Minerva Benitez Castillo por mandarme la siguiente historia.
Día del abuelo 28 de agosto
Día del abuelo 28 de agosto
José SabinoOdilón Xochipiltecatl Carvente, habitante de Tlaxcala, se convirtió en una de las personalidades más felicitadas en redes sociales, luego de que su nieta dio a conocer que el adulto mayor obtuvo su certificado de secundaria a los 85 años de edad.
Chíích- Nool, palabras mayas con las que en yucatán se les dice a la Abuela o Abuelo.
La educación para muchos de nuestros abuelos fue una oportunidad a la que no muchos accedieron, sin duda, como José Gabino, más adultos mayores tienen la oportunidad de estudiar.
Los abuelos con su experiencia que les ha dado la vida, diríamos como San Agustín: “Tarde te amé, oh Belleza siempre antigua, siempre nueva. Tarde te amé”, dijo San Agustín. Este gran Santo es uno de los 36 doctores de la Iglesia y es patrón de "los que buscan a Dios”
Son un cumulo de sabiduría, tienen el tiempo para escuchar, admirar y hablar, si quieres escucharlos, sin duda muchos tenemos la oportunidad de tener a un adulto mayor cercano a tu entorno.
No olvidemos a todos los que por circunstancias de la vida aún siguen buscando su sustento, con el cansancio de sus pies que arrastran por los caminos, aquellos que no saben como defender sus derechos. No abría necesidad de defensa, porque por dignidad les corresponden, si la sociedad, la familia tuvieran conciencia de la responsabilidad familiar y social frente a nuestros hermanos "adultos mayores", los que están en los super mercados o tiendas comerciales embolsando tus compras, los que están en los autobuses en el trayecto a tu trabajo o a tu casa, los que te encuentras en tu camino a todos ellos admiración y respeto. ¿Cuáles son sus derechos? Los mismos de todas las personas, sólo que se encuentran entre los grupos vulnerables, por la falta de oportunidad.
Cabbies And Truckers En Route To Extinction: Toyota Invests $500 Million In Driverless Uber Pact
Alan: The elimination of taxi drivers and truckers is "just around the corner."
"Automation, Robotization, Software-Enhanced Productivity And Permanent Job Loss"
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