“The popular mythology that has surrounded Christopher Columbus for the last five centuries, the exaltation of him as “discoverer” of the Americas a.k.a. the ‘New World’, was still being taught as part of elementary school curriculum and touted as historical fact in classrooms all across America as late as the dawn of the dawn of the 21st century, decades after many scholars had begun unmasking this lie.”
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History
Mount Rushmore
“Mount Rushmore (1745m) is a mountain sacred to the Sioux called Six Grandfathers. Whites desecrated it with the faces of four white men carved into its side in the early 1900s.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Another kickazz post by Abagond.
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The History of Racism – Episode 1 (part 1/6 )
Episode 1 – The Colour of Money: Colonialism and the Slave Trade. Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward…
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15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools
Nat Turner’s Revolution Nat Turner’s rebellion, also called the Southampton Insurrection, is probably the most famous slave uprising in North America.
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History Repeats Itself, First As Tragedy, Second As Farce: The GOP Shuts Down The Government
Editorial By: Alan Curtis Montgomery @ World Human Rights Lets just come out and say it without the fake bipartisan mantra that both parties are to blame for the shutdown, the GOP has held our syst…
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Click through to check the Dr. Cornel West meme
12 YEARS A SLAVE Press Conference
Community Village‘s insight:
The awkward beginning of this interview is what happens when an an interviewer is uneducated about race, racism, and the history of oppression.
The interviewer begins nervously with a question from her own Euro-centric perspective. Because she seems to feel guilty and seems to want to hide the bad the Europeans have done – she seems to think others feel the same as her.
PS – around 17:00 you will here from the “Mexi-Kenyan” 😀
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Vine Deloria, Jr on the whitenesss of American history
“Note: This post is based on “We Talk, You Listen” (1970) by Vine Deloria, Jr (pictured), a Native American (Sioux) writer. His ideas, my words:
By 1970 it was clear to most people that American history was too white as commonly taught at schools and universities. There were two main schools of thought about how to set it right:”
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Confronting Violence Against Indian Americans
“Building Brides is our response to the persistence of violence in our society and against members of our ethnic communities, the most recent instance being that of the killings at the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin.
The primary objective of this event is to create, promote and render a thought-provoking civil discourse among members of our communities.”
Community Village‘s insight:
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Cut Your Hair – or Else
“It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.”
So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white people’s clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Eliminate your culture – or else.
My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.
No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.
See on nativeheritageproject.com
6 books to decolonize your mind
“In that practice of striving to disrupt oppressive-repressive discourses and decolonize the mind, I’ve decided to post 6 books that changed my life–some of these are banned from being read by high school students in Arizona. I realize many of these are pretty much a no-brainer for those of us who are already attempting decolonial praxis in our daily struggle, but nevertheless I feel deeply indebted to these authors for impacting my life with their radical words, ideas, and their overall activist approach towards writing.”
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