tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post8070379464259565032..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Obama’s Columbus Day proclamation Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-82565572007991513272012-10-15T09:03:17.440-07:002012-10-15T09:03:17.440-07:00But that's Brown. He can say anything, and no ...But that's Brown. He can say anything, and no one cares. Like when he called his female political opponent a "whore".dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-15671375324962542232012-10-15T04:32:23.038-07:002012-10-15T04:32:23.038-07:00The poem's singleminded focus on gold makes it...The poem's singleminded focus on gold makes it sound like a greedy obsession to me.<br /><br />The following posting suggests that politicians can tell the truth about US history without suffering. Jerry Brown did, anyway:<br /><br />http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/on-president-obama%E2%80%99s-columbus-day-proclamation<br /><br /><b>On President Obama’s Columbus Day Proclamation</b><br /><br />To his credit, California Governor Jerry Brown’s Ppoclamation on Native American Heritage Day was a more honest and forthright acknowledgment of the dark and bloody history of colonization. By way of contrast with President Obama’s Columbus Day Proclamation, Governor Brown wrote and spoke of the effects of “warfare, slavery and relocation” on the original nations and peoples of California. He also acknowledged one of his predecessors, Governor Peter Hardeman Burnett, as stating “That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected.”<br /><br />When we examine President Obama’s proclamation in its entirety, we see that he has framed the horrific experiences of our nations and peoples as nothing other than a sad afterthought, in an otherwise cheerful and positive story of the United States. The bulk of President Obama’s Columbus Day message expresses the following language to characterize the aftermath of Columbus’s voyages:<br /><br /><i>“courage, innovative spirit that carried Christopher Columbus and his crew,” “we celebrate our heritage,” “explorers,” “countless pioneering Americans,” “same spirit of discovery that drove Christopher Columbus…to pursue the unknown,” “engineer and entrepreneurs, sailors and scientists,” “explorers of the physical world and chroniclers of the human spirit,” “broaden our understanding of the time and space we live in as a people,” “let us press forward with renewed determination toward tomorrow’s new frontiers,” “inspired generations of Italian immigrants to follow in his footsteps,” “commemorate this rich heritage.”</i><br /><br />Unfortunately, President Obama declined to provide the people of the United States and the world with a more candid and accurate version of truth telling about the aftermath of Columbus’s voyages for Indigenous nations and peoples. Instead, he used a thick cloak of euphemistic language to hide the specific deadly consequences of Christian European colonization that gave birth to the United States.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-35539812496393866852012-10-14T13:59:21.239-07:002012-10-14T13:59:21.239-07:00Also, in regards to:
"He made the trip again...Also, in regards to:<br /><br />"He made the trip again and again,<br />Trading gold to bring to Spain."<br /><br />I don't think it says a thing about greed. After all, someone CAN trade for gold fairly. But it screams incomplete. due to what it overlooks... how he really got the gold?<br /><br />It is like if someone wrote a poem about a plantation owner in the old South, and had just a few lines about how he produced lots of cotton year after year. dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-29150979393549688682012-10-14T13:55:22.365-07:002012-10-14T13:55:22.365-07:00Nothing against Obama, per se. But while he does s...Nothing against Obama, per se. But while he does sometimes break the mold, he is too often a typical politician.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-4095468660800840942012-10-13T03:50:15.415-07:002012-10-13T03:50:15.415-07:00I wasn't surprised either. All American polit...I wasn't surprised either. All American politicians say things like this.<br /><br />And I didn't claim it was a major offense. But I doubt many Indians would give it a mere 1 on a 1-10 scale.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-39457714299597514372012-10-12T09:07:26.789-07:002012-10-12T09:07:26.789-07:00I was not surprised. I expected his speech would b...I was not surprised. I expected his speech would be this way.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-56920109785676461502012-10-11T11:44:00.574-07:002012-10-11T11:44:00.574-07:00On the Slaery Scale of stupid, offensive things a ...On the Slaery Scale of stupid, offensive things a politician should know not to say, this is about a 1. (Saying God has a special plan for America is a 1; saying slavery was a good thing is a 10.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com