tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post6885492305494662545..comments2023-10-24T07:28:19.851-07:00Comments on SagaciousHillbilly: Thanksgiving MessageSagaciousHillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-22137715892881399392010-11-27T18:22:59.400-08:002010-11-27T18:22:59.400-08:00Herb, I always gave my kids a big ear full of rea...Herb, I always gave my kids a big ear full of real history which they often took back to school with them. It wasn't just history. Their science lessons also were sometime lacking in reality. No wonder they often had trouble with teachers.SagaciousHillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-659346512371488571.post-68680778141613948092010-11-26T10:31:57.503-08:002010-11-26T10:31:57.503-08:00It's a radical's cliché that America was b...It's a radical's cliché that America was built by stolen labor on stolen land. But true nonetheless.<br /><br />It ain't our fault as descendants of those settlers who raped, pillaged and murdered their way across the continent. But it is our fault that we perpetuate the evil if we choose to cover up and deny it.<br /><br />It makes me mad as hell that our 6-year-old son came home from school telling his part-Indian mom that 'the cowboys' started Texas and that the Pilgrims "helped" the Indians. It's not like all the players in the game are now gone. This country is full of black people, Hispanics and Indians who are all alive and well - and insulted every day by our self-serving rewriting of history, by our brainwashing kids at school.<br /><br />Sure, I'd like to tell my son's teacher, we "helped" those Indians by giving them blankets infected with smallpox... we "helped" them on that first winter by digging up their dead and eating them because we were too fucking stupid to eat the crabs walking around on the beach that they'd told us we could eat (oh no, Leviticus says shellfish is a no-no. But no word on cannibalism... chow down!) I'd love to remind that teacher how Texas was already populated by several tribes of plains Indians, hundreds of freed and escaped slaves and thousands of Mexicans by the time John fucking Wayne showed up... But still they push the white supremacist mythology.<br /><br />Not only are those who ignore history doomed to repeat it, those who rewrite history are doomed to be just as complicit.Herbert Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03409870996609364593noreply@blogger.com