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August 3, 2016

"Today drum circles, tomorrow inviting Somali colonists to displace them."

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Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 3, 2016 8:16 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Ah yea...how'd that work out for the Chippewa...???


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Posted by: Lands’nGrooves [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 3, 2016 8:53 AM

The Chippewa are doing OK back there in Upper Lake Michigan. They have gills. When the Ojibway sect migrated to California, their gills atrophied, along with their brains.

Posted by: BillH [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 3, 2016 9:16 AM

Q: Who was more savage, the Europeans or the Native Americans?
A: Here is a difficult truth: neither. People on both continents knew how best to live in their native environment, built the tools and machines they needed for their daily lives, wore clothes, made music and art, took care of their children and elders, fought wars, built cities, prayed, and sometimes did wicked things. Most people couldn't read or write, but some could. Some leaders were just, and others oppressed people. Europeans had more advanced weapons, and Native Americans took more baths.

Somehow, this is the very hardest idea for Americans to come to terms with, given the massive genocide that occurred here. If heroic white pioneers wiped out a race of ignorant cavemen who were just living miserable savage lives anyway, or if misguided white aggressors slew a noble and gentle race of otherwordly beings who might have otherwise taught them the secrets of wise living, then those would be comprehensible tragedies. That one group of normal, generally decent people should have slaughtered another group of normal, generally decent people--ordinary human beings who baked bread and did their laundry and watched football games and gossiped about their neighbors and made mistakes and loved their children--is psychologically devastating, almost beyond comprehension. But that's what happened. We're just like you. We always have been. There are just fewer of us, now.
h/t Google article
Our savagery is nurtured by our arrogance and ignorance.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 3, 2016 9:43 AM

1. Which just goes to show ya. If you don't unite yourselves and repel the invaders, you lose your country. If you don't, won't or can't defend your country, you lose it. Redrawing borders is not a civilized activity.


2. Too many of us have or want to become barbarians. Yearning for the mud. !(Beating drums --> healing). And of course, they all vote for the Slavery=Freedom Party.

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