Posted on 05/18/2014 7:47:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A state panel has effectively killed a bid to name a Lake Tahoe cove for Mark Twain, citing opposition from a tribe that says he held racist views on Native Americans.
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I also loved Twain’s story about Christ visiting a church and being run out because he was too peace loving. Oh, and in, I think, “Roughing It” where he describes a runaway campfire burning up the forest around Tahoe.
Twain did make some very accurate and cutting observations of the Plains Indians, which while not complementary in the slightest, were *true*. He had a very sharp tongue. This is not a long essay, but a biting one. Memorable.
The Noble Red Man
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/redman.html
Bingo!
You know what? I’ll bet that the people really putting up all the resistance were not really even Native Americans at all:
There is a certain type of liberal honky whose sole expression of secular religiosity is ferreting out and punishing some completely made-up form of racial prejudice.
The campaign of reputational destruction is sort of like going on a religious retreat, or singing at some kind of revival.
They imagine they’re ferreting out some form of sin, or that they’re sending some very bad devil back to hell, and if they can wow others in the process of doing that then they feel really powerful.
“All right then, I’ll go to hell!” is the greatest line in American literature and one of the greatest lines in all of literature anywhere, anytime.
Twain also wrote an essay on masturbation: “Some Thoughts On The Science Of Onanism” and I believe he read portions to a prominent literary society.
They did not appreciate his insights any more than the Native Americans did his portrayal of ‘Injun Joe’ in “Tom Sawyer.”
So, like Twain I suppose we might suggest to the Injuns that they go ____ themselves?
I do not know which one of Noah’s sons is the ancestor of these indians but but the old man should have pulled up the gangplank before the little sob could board.
“I have no prejudices against any particular race of man. The fact alone that he is a human is cause enough for me to loath him.”
I will second that.
parts of Clark county was named Pah-Ute county and parts named Mohave county on 12/22/1865.
http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/parks/Documents/centennial/history-timeline.pdf
Twain referring to Pah-Ute county as Pi-Ute would have been gramatically correct. Pah-Ute was an translation attempt at spelling Pai, which sounds like “Pie”, as in Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Hopi, (hopai) PaiUte, ShoPai, Ipai, PaiPai (and the ancestors, the Pai).
“A culture called the Patayan would appear in lower Mohave County and the interior of Arizona about A.D. 700. Subgroups of this culture would include the Cerbat and Cohonina in the inland areas and the Amacava along the Colorado River. It is believed the Cerbat are a direct link to the Pai (Hualapai and others).... By historic times in A.D. 1600, the Mojave, Hualapai and the Paiute were the three main tribes of Mohave County”
Tiresome? I agree. So let's get off our a**es and start using pop culture to reach and deprogram those who were programmed to believe all these lies by pop culture in the first place. It's the only way we're eve going to reach Generation.com.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Lincoln said things which would be considered as vile racism today yet he wasn’t.
Really?
“On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln published the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves would be set free...in the 10 states of the Confederation which were “in rebellion against the United States.” The slaves in the states that, willingly or unwillingly, were not part of the Confederacy, such as Kentucky, Maryland, or Delaware, were to remain in chains. The hypocrisy of the Emancipation Proclamation was so blatant that even Lincoln’s loyal secretary of state, William Seward, sarcastically observed, “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.”
Lincoln - “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
Granted, he was a product of his times, but if his beliefs weren’t racist, what would would qualify as racist?
I do not know which one of Noah’s sons is the ancestor of these indians but but the old man should have pulled up the gangplank before the little sob could board.
Thats what Jesus would do, right?
You can call that narrative accurate. I’d call it incredibly arrogant and ignorant.
Not surprising from a state that keeps electing a hump like Harry Reid....
so does Jay Z but he’s in the kitchen cabinet of the magic negro presidency
Shouldn’t California change it’s State Animal from the Golden Bear? That was the name of some Indian hunters in Northern Cal.
What Jesus would do if it can be fathomed creates no obligation in me to do likewise.
Doesn’t Obama compare himself to Lincoln???
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