Right wing nuts no should make-um heap big ha-ha at wise words from Big Chief Running Dum-Dum!
Posted on 10/09/2012 9:24:53 AM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – In his presidential proclamation recognizing Columbus Day issued last week, President Barack Obama said the holiday was a day to “celebrate our heritage as people born of many histories and traditions” and a time to “reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore” since the explorer arrived on the North American continent in 1492.
“Today, we recall the courage and the innovative spirit that carried Christopher Columbus and his crew from a Spanish port to North America, and we celebrate our heritage as a people born of many histories and traditions,” the Oct. 5 proclamation says.
“When the explorers laid anchor in the Bahamas, they met indigenous peoples who had inhabited the Western hemisphere for millennia,” the proclamation states.
“As we reflect on the tragic burdens tribal communities bore in the years that followed, let us commemorate the many contributions they have made to the American experience, and let us continue to strengthen the ties that bind us today.”
The proclamation notes that this year marks the 520th anniversary of “that fateful day in 1492.”
It also credits Columbus’ “spirit of discovery” with inspiring “entrepreneurs, sailors and scientists, explorers of the physical world and chroniclers of the human spirit.”
The proclamation also notes that Columbus has “inspired generations of Italian immigrants.”
On April 30, 1934, Congress, by joint resolution, modified the U.S. Code requesting the president proclaim the second Monday of October each year as “Columbus Day.”
Maybe he’s talking about Kenyan tribes. That’s about the only tribes he would be familiar with.
” I’m sure that Obama loves his country. Maybe some day we’ll find out which one it is. “
He loves every one of the 57 states of America equally.
1792: The first monument for Columbus was erected on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery in Baltimore, MD.
1892: President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage with patriotic festivities.
1937: Year Columbus Day was declared a national holiday.
1971: Originally observed every Oct. 12, it was this year Columbus Day was fixed to be celebrated the second Monday
in October.
2004: The year supporters of Hugo Chavez destroyed a 100-year old statue of Columbus in Caracas, Venezuela.
Exactly! Remember, NO ONE in 1492 had ANY idea how infectious diseases were transmitted, much less of the causative organisms involved. It is frustrating to hear supposedly educated people project present-day knowledge back half a millennium!
BTT
Right wing nuts no should make-um heap big ha-ha at wise words from Big Chief Running Dum-Dum!
If Columbus had not found the Americas, the Portuguese would have done it a few years later. Finding the Americas was inevitable.
tragic burdens tribal communities bore
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maybe we should instead emulate these wise tribal communities, and their method of conflict resolution:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942271/posts
13 girls bartered to settle tribal feud [ Pakistan ]
And if a boat load of Indians had found the OLD WORLD, they would have returned to the Americas and carried all those Old World diseases with them.
Not our fault Indians did not have any natural immunity from the diseases.
The Indians were run out of China because their moo goo gai pan was too salty.
Partial List of the over 700 Islands of the Bahamas:
Nassau / Paradise Island
Grand Bahama Island
The Abacos
The Berry Islands
Bimini
Andros
Eleuthera / Harbour Island
The Exumas
Cat Island
San Salvador and Rum Cay
Long Island
Acklins / Crooked Island
Mayaguana
Inagua
Ragged Island
Not to defend Obama (Believe me!), but Columbus first sighted and landed on the island of San Salvador, which is part of the Bahamas chain. He moved on from there.
If was nobody’s fault. It was inevitable. It is part of history we should be aware of but I don’t know what is gained by spending a day once a year to contemplate it.
He knew exactly what he was saying. He hates the fact that this country contains mostly the descendents of Europeans. He hates Europeans because of colonialism.
1937: Year Columbus Day was declared a national holiday.
Chris worked hard for his dream. Barely made it here in the crummy ships they gave him and the King and Queen of Spain were never happy with Chris cuz he didn’t bring home boatloads of gold.
Cut him some slack Dims...have always looked up to the man and always will. so there.
Barack Hussein BROWN....
please pardon a blunt assessment,..
And that led to the curse of the SUV.
And that led to global climate change which brought about the impending destruction of the atmosphere.
All of which has put us on the path to the eventual destruction of the entire world and the end of life on earth.
So you might say that Chris Columbus ultimately bears responsiblity for the death of every living creature and plant on the entire planet.
Except not his "white" American side, which he hates.
I have said it many times before-
Obama was never taught HOW to think, only WHAT to think.
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