If fascism ever arrives on the Brown University campus , it will no
doubt be exquisitely polite and " proper ". As a democratic Socialist I
am familiar with Howard Zinn's view of American history elaborated in
his " People's History of the United States ".
What is the sense of excoriating the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus- a product of his time- and in the process slighting a momentous event - for all its sad consequences: the European discovery of America ?
What we witness in the Middle East today is the New Colonialism led by imperialist USA. How many Brown University " progressives " are anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist ?
Above all, the Native American culture was destroyed by the " civilized " world's devotion to PRIVATE PROPERTY, to individual wealth.The Native Americans thought, for example, that land could only belong to the Great Spirit. It was " owned " only in a tribal sense- or owned by a confederation of tribes
In exchange for their LAND the U.S. government offered the Native Americans alcoholism and gambling fever. Don't blame Columbus for that !
As a GREAT EVENT Columbus Day should still be honored. These political correctness games are quite fatuous.
Name changes can work in a non-progressive direction : Change the name of Kennedy Plaza to Vincent " Buddy " Cianci " Square ?
Let us just respect the past.
What is the sense of excoriating the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus- a product of his time- and in the process slighting a momentous event - for all its sad consequences: the European discovery of America ?
What we witness in the Middle East today is the New Colonialism led by imperialist USA. How many Brown University " progressives " are anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist ?
Above all, the Native American culture was destroyed by the " civilized " world's devotion to PRIVATE PROPERTY, to individual wealth.The Native Americans thought, for example, that land could only belong to the Great Spirit. It was " owned " only in a tribal sense- or owned by a confederation of tribes
In exchange for their LAND the U.S. government offered the Native Americans alcoholism and gambling fever. Don't blame Columbus for that !
As a GREAT EVENT Columbus Day should still be honored. These political correctness games are quite fatuous.
Name changes can work in a non-progressive direction : Change the name of Kennedy Plaza to Vincent " Buddy " Cianci " Square ?
Let us just respect the past.
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| Respect HISTORY - honor the Great Event |
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