Comments on: For Columbus Day: statues with footnotes

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:47:59 +0000

first they came for Robert E Lee…

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12798353-74/ctitics-call-for-remocal-of-pittsburghs-stephen-foster-statue

(yes, that’s how “removal” is spelled in the link)

By: Yankee

Yankee — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:03:11 +0000

We should honor Columbus, warts and all, because the real history is far more interesting than the oppression narrative pushed by these post-modern types. His voyage was an extraordinary achievement, bringing into contact the Old World and the New World, and nothing was the same after that.

Columbus has been used for many place names, and “Columbia” for the country as a whole, in both a poetic sense and as a national personification, dating back as far as the 17th century. Another Italian, John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) explored the North American coast in 1497, for the English. And while it is politically correct to refer to the Indians as Native Americans, the word “America” itself comes from the Italian cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.

In a sense, to oppose Columbus Day is to oppose the idea of America itself. What would these grievance-mongers rather have? From their thinking, it seems they would prefer an untouched land without a country.

We should all be thankful that it was the English who colonized and settled North America, as the free and prosperous nation we have today comes directly from their culture and institutions.

By: GRA

GRA — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 06:42:21 +0000

*Long live

By: GRA

GRA — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 06:41:13 +0000

Though petty on my part, after the ban of Chief Illiniwek (University of Illinois’ unofficial symbol – not mascot) and the further elimination of all things Native American related in sports if not being subjected to banning, I cannot take Native Americans anger with any seriousness. Call me a racist, but I believe that since their culture has almost zero accomplishments that they’ve grown bored and delved into vengeance as a way to keep their minds busy.

Love live Chief Illiniwek, Chief Wahoo, the Blackhawks and the Washington Redskins.

By: DNW

DNW — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:12:54 +0000

I noticed that if you clicked Canada and Sources, and then tried to follow the first link on that page to The Jesuit Relations you merely got a college web page.

This link should get you there.

Primary source material … or nearly as it is not in the original folios collection or even manuscript

http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/

By: DNW

DNW — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:05:06 +0000

FYI

Some of you may not have seen these back in the stacks of your own college …

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp36837

By: Sam L.

Sam L. — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:00:52 +0000

The KKK was a tool for the Democrats at the time.

By: DNW

DNW — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:00:07 +0000

What became of the Erie tribe? Who did it to them?

Who were Tlaxcalans? Who was doing what to them before Cortes arrived? Who helped stop it? What became of their upper classes?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254964975_Indian_Lords_Hispanic_Gentlemen_The_Salazars_of_Colonial_Tlaxcala

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:43:08 +0000

America’s culture must be attacked until people repent, as in the days of Jeremiah.

Only by destroying the culture, can people begin to disobey the World and the System.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:41:09 +0000

America’s culture must be attacked upon every front until it collapses and a new socialist utopia can be erected upon its ashes.