Kamala Harris has vowed to address the ‘shameful past’ of America’s European explorers, saying they ‘ushered in a wave of devastation’ for Native Americans when they arrived 500 years ago.
The vice president was speaking at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention, held this year in Portland, Oregon.
Harris told the delegates: ‘Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.
‘But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.
‘Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.’
How can you work to help a country if you have nothing but shame for how it was founded and its majority population?
You can’t.
Which probably explains everything else this administration is doing.
They are just not hiding their contempt anymore.
I vote we take everyone who uses the term “shameful past” and give them a one-way ticket to any other country in the world, along with a revoking of their citizenship. We’ll even throw in a few dollars if they go to an legitimate 3rd world country and/or a communist dictatorship. Just so that they won’t have to feel shame anymore.
I’d HAPPILY chip in for that.
Critical theory in action. Focus solely on any negatives, ignore any positives. Decide the system is evil.
Add a pinch of Noble Savage.
And, what other conclusion can one come to? Of course white people are evil.
At Cahokia — the largest pre-Columbus permanent settle in what eventually became the United States — there’s a mass grave containing multiple teenage to twenty-something women. There’s no indication of cause-of-death, but it appears they were killed and buried alongside the local potentate. Isotope analysis of their teeth shows NONE of them grew up in Cahokia, coming from different areas in the region.
Based on what we know of the culture, it’s pretty clear they were slaves taken on raids.
At a site in South Dakota, archaeologists found a mass grave that contains ALMOST the entire population of a nearby settlement. Conspicuously absent from the demographics of the dead are the pubescent females. Some of the dead show signs of violent death — and it’s important to remember not all fatal wounds appear on bones — and some show signs of being scalped around the time of death. Many show signs of scavengers having been at the bodies, a sign they weren’t buried immediately.
That site, called the Crow Creek Massacre Site, dates to the middle of the 1300s.
Which just means the natives were no different than any other group of humanity. They did bad things. European settlement of the New World wasn’t unusual in the history of humanity.
(Plus, the biggest disaster was introduction of diseases. Europe still didn’t have germ theory — the idea introduction of diseases was on purpose is laughable.)
“Laughable” — you’re most likely correct in this case. But germ warfare was understood in the middle ages. I think I saw some mention of tossing rotting cow carcasses into a besieged city or castle by catapult, and possibly the same thing was done with corpses of plague victims.
As for the various massacres, there’s also the well known human sacrifice practices of the Aztecs and assorted other central American tribes.