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azndndude (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:02 PM Original message |
How Columbus day harms Native Peoples |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. I always enjoy this time of year. |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. does anyone actuaLLy "ceLebrate" it? |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Of course |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Haven't 'celebrated' it since I got out of grade school. In 1991 I was part... |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. does anyone really "celebrate" columbus day? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. Well you could 'celeberate it' by reading People's History of the US |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
6. He sailed, he explored |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 02:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Columbus Day is a very efficient metaphor for all of those things. n/t |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. you know, I never really considered how this |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 03:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I never really pondered the history of where I grew up. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. please forgive me if |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. The poster didn't say that ALL native Americans were "doomed by their own kind" |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I just wish they would clarify the point- |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Perhaps I wasn't clear. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:34 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. ok.... |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 04:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. silly n/t |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Which part? |
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jeffrey_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. "but they are rich! They own all of the casinos!" |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. rich?- |
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againes654 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. I refuse to celebrate Columbus Day |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We taught our kids that Europeans were invaders, not "explorers". |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. We don't have it in Hawai'i any more |
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RiverStone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
16. kicked |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
21. . |
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Rage for Order (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
22. dear god |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. I think that most people don't think about Christopher Columbus. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. I prefer the term "American Indian" |
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