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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Mark Twain, in his day, called Lake Tahoe “The Fairest Picture the Whole Earth Affords.”
He deserves to have a cove named after him. If the Washoe Tribe doesn’t like it, who the hell cares?
“What Jesus would do if it can be fathomed creates no obligation in me to do likewise.”
Actually, it does.
“How tiresome this racism thing has become.”
I wish it was only tiresome, an annoyance... I could put up with that by simply ignoring it.
Unfortunately it pervades all our thoughts and actions. If you’re at all in the public sphere, you have to walk on eggshells as the thought police monitors not only what you’re saying today but what you said 20 years ago (e.g.Paula Dean, Mark Twain, Churchill).
And even if you tow the line that doesn’t save you. Just this week Rev Jackson went on a shakedown trip to California to play race card with Google, demanding that they hire more “minority”, even though probably half their workforce are chinese, indian and middle-easterns. I take it he meant something else by “minority”.
Of course Google, like a pathetic obedient poodle readily confessed their sins and complied.
If Twain is to be considered racist, then all treaties with the so called “Native” Americans should be declared null and void due to the racist government persons who penned them.
Twain also said, “To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
Doesn’t Obama compare himself to Lincoln???
Sure does.
Mark Twain was a thinker and has many good quotes to choose from - all making perfect sense even today. I like the one where he says that "Worry is like making advance payment for something you're not likely to get anyway".
But, along with characters saying the "N-word" and other "racist" traits, he also helped cut down a huge redwood in Sequoia National Park outside of Fresno - I was in the area some years ago and made the tip to hike a bit and saw it. The dang noble-tree killer doesn't deserve to even be remembered.../s
I think he had enough stories and quotes that mock the Left with truth, and that is the real reason behind the deal.
From the Declaration Of Independence:
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Twain also made a few observations about the French.
Find all the old copies of anything Mark Twain, quickly, before the damnable revisionists get hold of them!!!
Having long been a student of the West in American History, Twain’s account was realistic of what he observed. While there is tremendous variation in the Indians of the Americas, several broad generalizations hold true:
1) East of the Mississippi, the northern and southern tribes had in prehistory engaged in a horrific war, so that by the time of the European arrival, what is today the East-West and North-South crossroads of the region, much of the state of what is now Kentucky, was a “neutral zone” to both sides. The occupation of this neutral zone was the *only* way westward expansion could happen, as both sides were otherwise too powerful and aggressive.
Eventually, Andrew Jackson engaged in ethnic cleansing to permanently remove this threat of the “five civilized tribes” to West of the Mississippi.
2) The powerful tribes of the Plains Indians held lands far greater than their numbers, yet even by the time of the Civil War still represented a major threat, as did the tribes of the southwest. Capable armies in opposition to westward expansion, that took the US Army many years to subdue.
3) Finally, scattered around the periphery of the major tribes were many minor tribes, such as Twain described, who lived in almost perpetual starvation.
Importantly, the context for Twain was the hopeless romanticism of “The Noble Savage” that filled the eastern and even European press. It neither saw the power, might and aggression of the warrior tribes, nor the abject poverty of many of the lesser tribes. It did not distinguish the “red man” of the northeast “civilized” tribes and the almost black in color, near stone age primitive tribes that lead hand to mouth lives.
But what Twain wrote was an effort to dispel these illusions.
We also need to work on getting more conservative/patriotic music (other than country, which most young people don't listen to), video games, sports team ownership, and so on. The Pubbies were stupid to surrender in the culture war.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Apparently the only Indian he ever observed was one alcoholic hang-about-the-fort. He paints all Indians with that broad brush and only an uninformed idiot would consider it realistic. Try reading some Allan W. Eckert.
There is a lot of difference between a historian and a historical writer. If you want facts, the best sources are the reports of US Army officers of the time, who much of the time acted as mediators between tribes, while often disregarding “kill them all” orders from Washington.
But the fantasy approach leads nowhere.
Allan Eckert doesn’t write fantasy which, ironically, is exactly what Twain was writing. Also try some Royal B. Hassrick, Mari Sandoz and others who actually knew Indians who lived on their own. Oh, and Lewis and Clark’s accounts.
Mark Twain Cove
Call it Squaw Inlet and call it good.
‘You have to walk on eggshells’ - and ‘if you don’t toe the line’ — Here’s the thing. We must NEVER walk on eggshells and NEVER toe the line. We must speak the Truth fearlessly. What if we DON’T play their game? PC is insidious, it is evil, it obfuscates the Truth, but the Truth will set you free.
eeew...that picture made my skin crawl. Her hair looks so dirty.
Imagine how disappointed her parents must be.
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