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Friday, November 29, 2024
Brown University transfers Bristol land to Pokanoket tribe
The Native American had to be corrupted into accepting capitalist concepts of land ownership :
[" The Native American concept of land ownership differs significantly from that of the European settlers who colonized the Americas or their descendants in that land could not be owned, only stewarded and lived with. The Earth is understood by Native Americans as a living, sentient being, and, therefore, no one can claim ownership." ]
Let me add that gambling casinos and saloons were also no part of Native American culture.
Poor maligned Christopher Columbus did not import all the evils of capitalism , colonialism , and imperialism into the New World. Nevertheless, the discovery of the New World was a titanic event in the history of Western Civilization . And statues and monuments to Columbus all over " OUR democracy " should be honored and protected.
Also ,this footnote : After the Southern Blacks were freed from plantation slavery they were embraced by the capitalist WAGE SLAVERY of the North , the New England Industrial Revolution. Any " reparation talks " for the descendants - Black , White, and Yellow - of " Dark Satanic Mill " WAGE SLAVES ? Is WAGE SLAVERY benevolently reformed in our times ? Or soon will be in Donald Trump's MAGA " New Deal " ?
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