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A Darker Side of Columbus Emerges in US Classrooms
Associated Press ^
| October 11, 2009
Posted on 10/11/2009 8:18:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: P-Marlowe
He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.I wonder how "Captain" Obama would have done.
To: cydcharisse
“A technologically superior culture replaced a primitive one. Like it or not, its the way of the world. Live with it.”
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A historical truism, which so-called “free traders” would do well to ponder!
As America sends all our factories and technology, to people who hate us.
WE. Are becoming the primitive culture vis-a-vis a number of potential adversaries VERY RAPIDLY.
It’s very likely, the result will be the same, as it was when we were the technological leaders:
We are headed rapidly, to being conquered.
To: reaganaut1
So, all you kids who thought Columbus was evil, go back to the land your ancestors came from and start over.
To: bitterohiogunclinger
on other Native American tribes
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Or...How these “peaceful” Native American, kidnapped the wives and children of other Native American tribes or skinned alive their Native American captives.
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posted on
10/11/2009 8:43:35 AM PDT
by
wintertime
(People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
To: reaganaut1
If it is a good, meaningful thing to talk about the contribtions of Africans and African culture, and if, as we have been told since the 1960s this is the fundamental basis of positive self-esteem because feeling bad about their history was at the heart of many problems black Americans had, then why is it a good thing to teach very young children about how bad the people were who founded their own culture? We are becoming a nation with low national self-esteem - or as normal people say - no national pride. This is like telling your young child about all the bad things their grandparents did, which, though maybe true, had context and should be learned later when the child grows up and understands the nuances of life.
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posted on
10/11/2009 8:44:15 AM PDT
by
Anima Mundi
(The trouble with trouble is it starts out as Utopia)
To: reaganaut1
“I don’t think all male kindergarten teachers should be bashed this way.”
OK, fine. So I’ll toss it to you, what percentage of male kindergarten teachers do you think are homos?
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posted on
10/11/2009 8:50:22 AM PDT
by
raptor29
To: P-Marlowe
He was the Captain of a ship. If you were not "mean and bossy" with a crew of half starved drunken sailors you would find yourself being fed to the sharks and your ships sold to pirates. If your crew did not fear you, then you had a lot to fear from your crew.
You mean the crew couldn't file complaints with their union rep., or bring a suit with OSHA? What about the guys with hooks for hands, didn't the captains make special accomodations for them under the ADA? Didn't Ferdinand and Isabella have a Commission against Discrimination to ensure 'diversity' on their ships?
One of the many reasons liberals stink as history teachers is that they subconsciously (or maybe not so subconsciously) impose their 'values' on times past instead of stopping to think about why something was the way it was.
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posted on
10/11/2009 8:51:25 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When the riders in the cart outnumber those pulling the cart, the cart stops moving. My back hurts.)
To: Right Wing Assault
I wonder how "Captain" Obama would have done. He wouldn't have made it out of the harbor.
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10/11/2009 8:53:11 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: reaganaut1
Why people continue to send their children to these indoctrination centers is a mystery to me. It can’t be for any educational value.
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:00:50 AM PDT
by
rbbeachkid
(The ONLY ones able to fix the economy - Small Business Owners!)
To: reaganaut1
I have never understood why the disease thing didn't work both ways.
Shouldn't European sailors have carried back diseases Europeans had no immunity for that would of devastated the population there also?
To: reaganaut1
Children were ALWAYS taught that Columbus discovered America by accident.
Duh, they aren't called Indians for nothing!
To: reaganaut1
Much of this anti-white male material comes from very popular books such as, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen. Loewen teaches "Racial Studies" at his college and so his view of American history is that everything done by white males was racist. He will select anecdotes that support his thesis and then imply that all white people were this way all the time. This is the brainwashing that public school kids are getting today.
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10/11/2009 9:05:41 AM PDT
by
DeweyCA
To: reaganaut1
''In their own verbiage, he was a bad guy,'' teacher Laurie Crawford said.She "said"? Shouldn't that be "she verbalized"? With English like that, I'm sure she's a cracker-jack teacher.
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:13:15 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
To: rbbeachkid
Why people continue to send their children to these indoctrination centers is a mystery to me. It cant be for any educational value.
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Certainly you have read some of the excuses used by so-called conservatives here on Free Republic.
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10/11/2009 9:15:52 AM PDT
by
wintertime
(People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
To: reaganaut1
''And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.''Can't wait until they get to Lincoln, LBJ, Carter, Klinton and . . . . oh, yeah, leftist revolutionary hero Barack Hussein Obama!!
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:17:33 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: reaganaut1
Not even the two Italian kids were defending Columbus in class the other day when I brought it up.
Got a problem with the word "discover", okay, no problem.
Got a problem with the "discovery" itself, you have a big problem, kids. Almost wanted to call them fools for being taken in. Doesn't matter if the Chinese, Vikings or the Celts had been here before that, the history of the World changed with Columbus's voyage. That's all there is to it.
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:17:58 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: reaganaut1
FYI, Christopher Columbus was not Captain Stubing and his ships were not the “Love Boat”, “The Good Ship Lollypop” and “The Queen Mary”. Most sailors in those times were not exactly model citizens. Captains of ships in those days were taskmasters and were sometimes cruel as were the members of their crews. How can teachers justify judging Columbus in the late 1400s by 21st century standards?
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:28:38 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: cydcharisse
If not Columbus, it would have been another European, which was inevitable.Who would be equally vilified today...A
A technologically superior culture replaced a primitive one.
When some doofus starts the crap about what happened, I ask them, "What would have happened, if the 'Black Death' really depopulated Europe, and the Moslems moved in, sailed west, and reached the shores of the Americas? Or Chinese, coming from the east?"
The fact is, that the indigenes were doomed the moment any advanced civilization encountered them. Neolithic technology just doesn't support the kind of population base to hold large areas of land, and the resources thereon...
the infowarrior
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Columbus was also sent to spread Christianity, oh yeah we can’t mention that either.
To: P-Marlowe
Question for the nitwits. If it was not Columbus who blundered into America, but the Spanish, who arrived first, what kind of treatment would the natives received?
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posted on
10/11/2009 9:53:25 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(Leyte Gulf Beach Club)
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