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The DNC 2016 party platform began by claiming that “Democrats meet in Philadelphia with the same basic belief that animated the Continental Congress when they gathered here 240 years ago.” Four years later, out went the Continental Congress and all of America.
The 2020 DNC platform began with a politically fashionable ‘land acknowledgement’ asserting that America was an illegitimate entity operating on stolen land “built on Indigenous homelands.”
The 2024 platform likewise begins with a ‘land acknowledgement’ claiming that Chicago properly belongs to 13 different Indian tribes. Once again, the DNC asserts that they “recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands.” That is to say America should not exist.
If the Democrats truly believe it, why not turn over Chicago to the Indian tribes?
Land acknowledgements were initiated by an Australian Marxist terrorist supporter at a counterculture festival in the 1970s. Its goal was to establish that Australians were foreigners and had to follow aboriginal laws and culture. 50 years later the practice, grounded in ‘decolonization’ has been widely adopted by American leftists and their ruling party.
Land acknowledgements are a form of historical revisionism, like the 1619 Project and destroying Columbus statues, that are paving the way for delegitimizing America.
The DNC transplanting them to Chicago demonstrates a whole new level of historical and scientific illiteracy. The Indians are not “native to this continent” unless the party’s new scientific consensus, which already believes that men can become women, also believes in separate human origins for different races (a racist 19th century belief once held by Democrats.)
Nor have they been here “since time immemorial”, but were Asian populations who crossed the Bering Strait in early human history. (The theory is unpopular with many Indian tribes.)
The DNC platform claims that Chicago was really the property of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, along with the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten Indians. But what actually happened to those tribes?
The Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Fox, Kickapoo and many of the others on the list allied with the British in the War of 1812. During the war, they carried out brutal atrocities such as the Potawatomi massacre of women and children during the evacuation from Fort Dearborn. (The massacre has become politically incorrect and monuments to the victims have been removed.)
The DNC land acknowledgement boasts that it made the Prairie Band of Potawatomi the “first federally recognized Tribal Nation in Illinois in 175 years.”
The Democrat platform claims that Chicago was the “traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.”
That would have been news to them.
The Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi moved around quite a bit. They were forced westward by Iroquois expansionism. Some of the tribes to whom the DNC wants to assign Chicago were actually living in what is today Canada. There was no eternal Indian homeland in Chicago (named after a foul smelling plant) just a place different tribes passed through in between wars with each other and through alliances and wars with different Europeans. Like the War of 1812.
The United States and Great Britain ended the war with the Treaty of Ghent. Article Nine of the treaty mandated that the United States also conclude all hostilities with Indian tribes and “restore to such Tribes or Nations respectively all the possessions, rights, and privileges” so long as they “agree to desist from all hostilities against the United States of America.”
Some tribes chose to end hostilities, others moved with the British to Canada, and still others continued to engage in attacks. The tribes and smaller groups made and broke alliances with the British, the French and the Americans based on their perceived interests. They were not a fundamentally different “native people” with nobler, peaceful and more spiritual values. That is white liberal noble savage nonsense. They were colonists, warriors and hunters, like the Europeans, but without the same level of civilizational development or technology.
The DNC’s land acknowledgment fails to address any of this thorny history or answer the question of whether the Democrats, whose original party foolishly started the War of 1812 while being unprepared to fight it, would have been better off losing the war and the country.
Would Kamala prefer a world in which the British not only burned the White House but retained possession of it because that is what her party’s idiotic ‘land acknowledgment’ amounts to.
Instead the DNC reduces the Indians to magical “indigenous” people who “have been here since time immemorial” and “protected our lands, waters, and animals.”
The Indian tribes did not protect land and animals, they used them as hunting grounds.
Whatever human population existed in the Americas (which likely little resembled the modern conception of Indian tribes) probably led to the extinction of the megafauna, such as the mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger. They in turn were probably exterminated by the Indians, much as the more indigenous Hawaiians were enslaved and killed by the Polynesian colonists.
The Indians had more trouble hunting herd animals to extinction than they did apex predators, but that was because they lacked the technology to wipe out entire species. And those who did, like the Mayans and the Mound Builders (who built pyramids in Illinois and had more right to a DNC land acknowledgement) lacked the technology to survive overhunting a food species.
The myth of Indians valuing and preserving wildlife only to have Americans swoop in and destroy species like the bison or the passenger pigeon is more white liberal noble savage nonsense. While some tribes sensibly took steps to limit the impact of their hunting, others gleefully killed as many animals as they could. Indian creation myths left them with little grasp of the possibility of species extinction and refused to accept it when it was explained to them.
Perhaps the DNC could tell us how hunting bison by driving them off cliffs in huge numbers entailed protecting animals. Or killing entire herds of bison just for their tongues.
Given horses, rifles and a market demand for bison, beaver and other animals, the Indian tribes engaged in large scale killing of animals whose existence they took for granted.
The death of the bison and the passenger pigeon were more due to the Indians than Americans.
But the DNC is not interested in turning over Chicago to the Indians. No more than it is interested in real history and real Indians. Much as black people are to the 1619 Project, the Indians are to land acknowledgements as only a means to delegitimize America.
The DNC’s continuing use of land acknowledgements is more than an accident.
While the 2016 Democrat platform at least tipped the hat to the Founding Fathers, the 2024 platform makes a point of rejecting their work and the entire notion of America.
In a paragraph proposing slavery reparations and a study of “the continuing impacts of slavery” (which ended over 150 years ago), the DNC 2024 platform sarcastically jabs at the Declaration of Independence by endorsing ‘equity’ and contends that “we have a long way to go to realize the full promise of America, but we are committed as a party to continuing the work to build a nation where all people are not only created equal, but treated equally throughout their lives.” There is understandably no mention of the “inalienable rights” that come next since the purpose of equity is to eliminate individual rights and make the state absolute in all things.
The only mentions of the “constitution” in the DNC 2024 platform involve either attacking former President Trump or falsely claiming that there is some constitutional right to killing infants in the womb. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, once seen as the founders of the party, are absent, the only Jackson in the document is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Democrats claim that they want to “ensure the promise of America for everyone, including black, Latino, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Americans”, but what is that promise and where was it made? The DNC platform does not know or care.
America, in the DNC view, is an unfulfilled “promise” of equality that their party intends to fulfill through equity. What it is not is exceptional. Its history is of no interest. It is a bunch of racists living on stolen Indian land. And the mission of the Democrats is to put an end to America through a totalitarian state for which the DNC platform is only a partial blueprint.
I’m conservative minded. I don’t like the looney left. But i think “land acknowledgement” is an important and needed educational idea. Why not teach Americans in their various locations who the indigenous peoples were? Many of them still exist! Yet, many Americans may not even know that. There must be a way for Americans to learn about the indigenous peoples of this country and still maintain an American identity based on the strengths of the Constitution and all we’ve battled for over the centuries.
Why not teach Americans that only individuals actually exist?
Only individuals actually exist and only individual rights exist. There is no such thing as tribal rights or racial rights, there are only the rights of the individual to his life, liberty, property, and his pursuit of happiness.
There is a statute of limitations on almost all crimes for an objective and rational reason, after a certain amount of time the actual individual victims and the actual individual criminals and their children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren are all DEAD, gone, and buried.
Even when the crime is murder there may be no LEGAL statute of limitation but time itself is a limitation. Once the murderer is dead you can’t bring him to justice and you certainly can’t put his children or grandchildren in prison for his crime, not under objective and rational law.
Instead of crying useless tears about the irretrievable, unchangeable, and unfixable injustices of centuries ago let’s teach Americans to embrace the present and the future and to stand on their own two feet as individuals.
“Instead of crying useless tears about the irretrievable, unchangeable, and unfixable injustices of centuries ago let’s teach Americans to embrace the present and the future and to stand on their own two feet as individuals.”
As usual your comment makes zero sense.
Maybe you should stop crying your useless tears about the irretrievable, unchangeable, and unfixable injustices of centuries ago. Because, guess what, the past is unchangeable. Perhaps you should get off your high horse about the Jews and Christianity and your made up concept of the “Christian Dark Ages” You can’t change history.
Americans have been standing on their own two feet for the better part of 250 years. We sure as hell need no instruction from someone who says “I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country.”
Yep, you are real patriot. You are a joke.
Your obsession is truly troubling.
you didnot READ his post nor comprehend it.
He was saying to forget about the past and move on from right here. that silly 1519 project is the sick joke.
ODAY is the firs day of the rest of your life. ACT like it and stop mouring yesterday. The what ifs don’ help. The false narrative about our “evil mean and nasty” forbearers only serve to polarise and foment rouble. Desabilise is their game. Dont let them win.
THX, your belief that “only individuals exist” is preposterous and would destroy any civilization that embraces it.. That fallacy is your bedrock. Your embrace of it against reason and logic makes you a slave to a pretty lie, as well as a hypocrite.
Please prove that individualism is preposterous.
“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred.
We inherit the products of the thought of other men. We inherit the wheel. We make a cart. The cart becomes an automobile. The automobile becomes an airplane. But all through the process what we receive from others is only the end product of their thinking. The moving force is the creative faculty which takes this product as material, uses it and originates the next step. This creative faculty cannot be given or received, shared or borrowed. It belongs to single, individual men. That which it creates is the property of the creator. Men learn from one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival….
Mankind is not an entity, not an organism, or a coral bush. The entity involved in production and trade is man. It is with the study of man—not of the loose aggregate known as a “community”—that any science of the humanities has to begin.” – Ayn Rand
I never said individualism is preposterous. Straw man.
I don’t give a shit about any of that shit. Real men just do what it takes to get by.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, when I was in school in the 60’s & 70’s we learned a great deal about Indians, but that was before PC turned them into “noble savages” … they never were.
Indigenous Americans? Humanity originated around the ..Mediterranean. Solutrians were here long before the Amerindians. At least six thousand years before the Clovis tip.
300 thousand years. That’s how long humanity has been around. Human remains were found in present day Morocco that old.
There are lots of tribal lands in California. I was surprised one time when I was looking at maps how many there were.
Yes. there is a lot of rez land here in CA. Even in areas you wouldn’t expect, like Big Bear Lake.
I had a black friend once who said the Injuns shot at him when he strayed onto their land in Big Bear. They don”t hate whitey even though “they’re not overly friendly” but I think they tend to hate black guys.
Whoever down voted me is an anti black racist dick licker.
Hey Jeff, you made an excellent point in another comment I couldn’t reply to, about guys who just do what they have to to survive. I was thinking about that the last few days, about criticism and bad advice I got when I was younger, telling me to do what was impossible. They didn’t seem to realize that I was doing the best I could, that I was struggling just to survive.
or so the bogus carbon dating toys would ell us. Meh….
I personally know a man who too some samples from the scarp eroded away by the years of the Toutle River where Mt. St. Helens blew half her top to the north northwest. The volcanic ash was moved over a matter of minutes on 8 May 1980. Over the ensuing years the Toutle River carved a deep canyon into the mass of volcanic ash. It was settled and compacted by normal geologic forces.
He took some samples from the lower part of the bare face of the new scaro, and sent it to a number of “dating labs” He asked each lab o eveluae their sampe and tell im how long ago the material was laid down.
The answers did or surprise him… the age of that deposit was reported as bring up to fifty illion years back in time.
And you want me to out MY nickel on these “dating” methods? Hah what a joke.
I don’t see protests in Mexico all the way to Argentina… why not?
I love how they BUILD EVIL CASINOS ON THEIR *****SACRED LAND!*****
We’ve all heard of Montezuma’s Revenge and many have had it on their travels to Latin America. I think they sell it to Cooks and Chefs in a bottle to poison Americans. (Advice: Eat on the streets. If I can’t see the meal being cooked, I don’t want it.) THE CASINO’S…. GERONIMO’S REVENGE!
I linked TheRedNation.org in a comment below. They are Revolutionary Communists and against Capitalism. They started here in Albuquerque and now its led to LAND BACK. I write them all the time to PROTEST against the Evil Capitalist Casinos exploding even their own with very little profits going to their Nations/Tribes. No action or protests… because to them, it’s taking money from The White Man!
THEY GET MONTHLY CHECKS, not from their own Casinos, but from the government. A news clip on a woman from Gallup who delivered water to reservation homes, showed one home with particle board for outside walls that was corroding. THEY CAN’T AFFORD A SCRATCH COAT???
LAZY! WANT FREEBIES! BLAME OTHERS! NO GOALS IN LIFE! NO MOTIVATION! IMAGINE IF THE WHITE MAN NEVER CAME HERE! Imagine if Africans discovered America!
CORY BOOKER, a Black Supremacist like his leader, Obama!: “Our Founding was rooted in White Supremacy!” He took The Oath to defend the Constitution written by WHITE MEN that he hates!
CUT OFF THE EVIL GOVERNMENT MONEY TO NATIVE AMERICA!
Africans didn’t even discover some of the islands off the coast of Africa, because of their limited development of ship technology. Partly because there was no need, as they could generally live well enough off the land. Sir Richard Burton once described a typical day in an 1800s African tribe he visited. They started the day with their native beer, had plenty to eat, drinking beer all day long, ended the day with more beer, went to sleep, woke up with a headache, and did it all again. A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one 🙂
The Phoenicians with their advanced ship technology had trading posts all the way around to East Africa, but that history seems to have been mostly lost.
It was ships that made the slave trade possible. The Arabs mainly took slaves from East Africa by sea back to their homelands and slave markets.
The Portuguese and Spanish pioneered the slave trade to the New World, then when England shipping developed far enough they joined in, with various conflicts breaking out over control of the slave trade.
The Portuguese had a glorious era of prosperity when they were the dominant sea power, an interesting historical period.
“A drunkard’s dream If I ever did see one.” Good Gordon Lightfoot quote.
I notice the Portuguese settled the Canary Islands off the off the East coast of Africa and the Madeira islands. They seem like nice places. The boogie never made it to those places.
They were the first Westerners to get to Indonesia too, I think.
Yes and I believe it was a Portuguese man who was in a “relationship” with some sort of princess or royal daughter along what is now called the Malabar Coast of India. Coffee had been brought there a few centuries previously from Yemen, where the Ethiopians had been cultivating it, having brought the scions from Ethiopia itself when they had Yemen under their government thumb.
This “affair” was found out, and the “traveller” was informed he must leave.. NOW. So he went back to his ship and they prepared to depart for Indonesia, next on their itinerary. Just as they were debarking a courier came to the port and brought an arrangmen of flowers to the Portuguese rader. It was delivered to his cabin. Busy with departure protocols, he set the arrangement inside. It was only later as he began to examine his gift more carefully he discovered a small handful of.. COFFEE beans, viable raw seeds. Thus coffee was brought tto Indonesia. That place quickly became a major source for Europe. It was also brought from Indonesia to the Azores where it was very successfully cultivated. Then, of course, as the portuguese began to travel to Brasil hose stocks then found there way into that nation.Today Brasil is probably the largest output coffee producing nation in thet wor;d All from thirty six seeds given one man by his illici sweethear.t
Whoops! Make that the West coast.
The continual drumbeat of every single minority / aggrieved ethnicity has most people fatigued to the point of apathy. I am one of them.
Nor can I think of any nation which was not founded upon violence. The idea of the noble savage is a fiction.
Yes, people who criticize violence are usually hypocrites. How can you found a nation without violence? There are always opposing forces. We just have to hope the good ones win against the bad ones.
And there are always bad ones. We try to separate ourselves from them but we can’t, really. They’re always there and you do have to face them when necessary.
Well, the Democrats are tasked with re-writing history. Ask Michelle Obama. All this prattle about “stolen lands” is nothing more than virtue signaling.. Just like socialism, they tout it’s virtues but none dare act on it. If it’s so important to them why aren’t they ceding back the land their McMansions in the cul-de-sac sit on? Why not give away all your possessions and live off the collective that doesn’t exist and never will. To these people, I always say “you go first”. They won’t. They’re just full of shit driven by self hatred and white guilt. It’s their repentance to themselves.
Here’s why. (1) Most Amerinds were nomadic hunter-gatherers and contested with others for game and uncultivated harvests. (2) War was continual in the New World among the tribes that lived there for the whole of human memory. (3) No nation on earth exists on land that was not won by battle from others within its current boundaries. (4) America has permitted “Native Americans” to live in subsidized socialist squalor for more than a century with special rights and no demand that tribal leaders behave responsibly or improve the social fabric of their reservations. (5) Those who have assimilated to the culture of the United States that gave rise to the Constitution and the successful family and social structure that produced the healthiest and most prosperous nation on Earth in the 19th and 20th centuries have prospered and become healthy and productive. (6) Those who have clung to the social patterns of their forbears have – in general – suffered.
Late Colonial and Early American authors romanticized the “noble red man” in their texts, appealing to the good will of their readers. Post-Civil War American authors told slightly more realistic tales while retaining a tale of virtue for most of the “Indians.”
And there are many accurate histories of the settlement of the continent by farmers, ranchers, merchants, and builders that include faithful accounts of relations with the descendants of pre-Columbian Americans. They should be essential content of school reading lists, rather than the dross and pornography favored by the NEA and the ALA.
Ask the people who fought in the French Indian wars what they thought of Indians.
I personally don’t mind them but they’re savages.
There certiny is. Simply find and read well writen and factually accurate books on the matter.
I would highly recommend beginning with William Bradford’s remarkable book “Of Plymouth Plantation” He was one of the original group who crossed on the Mayflower and settled a Plymouth Plantation. He carefully documents, from an eyewitness and active participant perspective, the few years before they left England and then the first forty years of the Settlement. .
There are similar writings, the names of which I have forgotten, documenting the earlier Jamestown settlement in Virginia. They were well received and honoured by the locals, lived alngside them and became good friends. Some of the locals took the opportunity to sail to England and back to Jamestown. At least one of the “imports” married into one of the “local” families, raised up a family. It was all considered normal. It was not until other nearby tribes began to foment trouble (which seems to have been a way of life amongst most of the tribes)
There are also good works documenting and recording the doings of the Brits along the West Coast particularly in Washington and British Coslumbia. The record of the Brits is NOT a pretty one at all. Much in line with the way they seemed to treat every local population as they expanded.. India, Congo, the Levant, Cyprus, Guiana, Honduras, many of the Pacific Islands, South Africa, even Ireland. Spain was no better.. both of these countries simply wanted to dominate and pillage wherever they went. We Yanks came here to build a good life in a new place to escape the tormmenting Brits and Spanish.
America was built on its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
And then the Pilgrims and Puritans from England,
And then the extensive diverse European immigration into America..
The Revolutionary War and Independence from the British Empire, and the Founders of the USA and the creation of its Constitution and its Freedom and Liberties really built America.
For the most part, the native Indians were uncivilized primitives … barbarians for the thousands of years before the Europeans came.
Anybody want to dispute these True facts ?
No dispute here, let’s just point out that the indigenous tribes here were all Stone Age people not very far removed from the Cro-Magnon cavemen. While they had fire, they didn’t have the wheel, didn’t have metal tools, didn’t have livestock to carry their burdens or themselves until the Europeans started showing up. They fought against other neighboring tribes, killing and enslaving whoever they could grab. No Bronze Age, no Iron Age, no Enlightenment. They came up against a superior people and lost badly.
This is one of my favorite 4+ min perspectives on what the Indian wars were about.
Great job showing what Nelson Miles dealt with while pursuing Sitting Bull after the Custer debacle:
That was fucking good! I watched it with bated breath.
The occupation of land argument is so boring. I would say if you occupy some land and can hold it, you’re the owner. I believe no one actually owns land. You only hold it if you can. My question is how far back into the past do you want to go? Look at the past history of World. Land has changed hands many times, mainly by force. I’m sure all parcels of land where taken from someone. Who did this someone take the land from? This is the history of man and the animal.
The occupation of land may be boring, but it is crucial. It is a basic tenet of civilization.
Yes, people take that shit seriously. You don’t want to be ahead of them. They get really mad about that stuff. You have to put your head down and just fuck them up.
If the DemoNazi Party really believes that, they should act on it and leave. I recommend North Korea for them all.
Phonies and hypocrites, give up your mansions and property you fat ass liberal cock suckers
So did they serve Ben & Jerry Ice Cream at the Demon-Rat Convention maybe their RESIST flavor and B & J Need a new flavor STUPID JACKASS FREEZE
To be consistent with the “stolen” theme, this political party has a VP candidate of “stolen valor”
And the polynesians were cannibles. Fuck them..
They were fantastic sea navigators. The last thing I read said they made it all the way to the mainland of South America and traded with them.
The Pacific is so huge as you know and can appreciate 🙂
When I was in Hawaii I made sure to wade into the sea at the southernmost point in USA (I thought at the time 🙂 Looking out to sea, it was 5000 miles to land.
Yes, I read about Captain Cook.
I other stuff about Britain and Hawaii. The Hawaiins were scum.
And I forget the name of the book about Easter Island written by Thor Heyerdahl. It was good. He actually got his nose in the dirt.
They were surprisingly good sea navigators, though. How they accomplished all that on wooden rafts is incredible. I bet most of them died on their journeys.
A fucking raft in the Pacific? Fuck that shit.
Developing reasons to tear America down past it’s foundations is SOOO Marxist Democrat. While in reality, the reasons don’t really matter to them, it’s the tearing down that’s important. Can’t rebuild in their own image if they don’t remove all vestiges of the Republic.
If one were to believe the “science” as to the age of the Earth, what makes the most recent “indigenous” people more important than those before them? Or are they saying that the continent was virgin and pristine until the Apache showed up?
Since being a child, I’ve always struggled with “manifest destiny” but it is, in point of fact, the nature of man. It’s hard to see it in the states, but if you ever travel to a small country that’s been around for a long time, you’ll see where civilizations has been built on top of previous civilizations in perpetuity.
In Israel, they call them “Tel”. In nature it’s called “survival of the fittest”, but seeing how we can’t even secure our own border and our military is so understaffed as to be unable to handle even one major conflict…how “fit” are we?
It’s time we changed that by not allowing Democrats the power to label and segregate us and ALL become part of the American tribe.
🇺🇲 TRUMP ’24 🇺🇲
If the Dems choose to believe that the American Indians were the indigenous people of North America, and we non-Indians conquered and stole their land. Isn’t this similar to the people of Israel? After all, the Arab Muslims conquered and “stole” Jerusalem and the surrounding lands from, those indigenous people. Shouldn’t the Jews be entitled to at least some part of that “stolen” land back.
But this same scenario has taken place thousands of times around the globe over thousands of years and likely will continue. I’m thinking, Russia/Ukraine.
Many of the New Testament churches were in modern day Turkey. There has to be a case that can be made for land restitution there.
They are the Babadook
They are the Babadook
Obama talked about big and small. I can grind up their drunken horde like there’s no tomorrow.
With the weapons today, you only need one.
THEREDNATION.ORG started this movement here in Albuquerque with the first action taken against the UNM’s seal featuring a Spaniard on a horse. Their signs were the same black and yellow signs as A.N.S.W.E.R. and connected to The Party for Socialism and Liberation. Seal removed. NEXT WAS COLUMBUS DAY and little by little now Indigenous People’s Day. NEXT is Thanksgiving, “A Day of Sorrow” and against The White Invaders.
NOW A NATIONAL GROUP that has protested with George Floyd, BLM, and now PRO-HAMAS and their goals including the destruction of Israel!
MISSION STATEMENT: “This position paper of the Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism. By adopting this proposal, we commit ourselves to the study and practice of revolutionary socialism (also known as scientific socialism) by aligning ourselves with the long traditions of resistance that predate Marxism itself. Nonetheless, Marxism has become the weapon of the poor and colonized throughout the world and largely outside of Europe, a weapon we now take up as our own. Marxism is the five-fingered fist—the hand of the worker, the peasant, the colonized—and our traditions of resistance are the power behind that fist.”
Why are they always lezzies? What’s wrong with being a hetero?
We don’t want Violent mobs in America they all need to be moved to the Amazon to live without any weapons
America should not exist? In the late 1970s, that was the mindset of utopians in Guyana led by a San Francisco Democ-rat. at whose prompting his entire following of about 800 diverse souls drank cyanide-laced Kool Aid and collectively died by their own hands, women and children first. For them, America ceased to exist. Yes, Jim Jones was a San Francisco word salad chef like presidential pretender Kamala “Heels Up” Harris. Beyond the Democ-rat cult, it remains to be seen whether ordinary Americans will drink a 21st century batch of Democ-rat Kool Aid. November will tell the tale.
Land acknowledgment is useless preening invented by twisted leftists who want power and sold to the herd of groveling slavery-preferring morons that are their supporters. The conquest of one group by another has been going on from time immemorial. A new group conquers the old, cities and nations rise and fall. At this level of nation building the land is your’s only as long as you can defend it. What makes American Indians so special that they should somehow be immune to this process and warrant eternal whining and crying? Nothing!
As always with Mr. Greenfield, another economically and well-written historical lesson. Thank you.
What, no cheap shot response from Mickhorn, yet?
thank you so much
Used to be sympathetic to the “noble red savage” until I realized they lived in the Stone Age and preferred that life. They couldn’t even invent a wheel. They prefer segregation in reservation culture instead of adopting themselves into ‘civilization.’ I’m old enough to remember my grandmother saying how terrified people were when Geronimo escaped prison. White guilt enough for you? Grow up.
A lot of us “White Folk” have come to realize your ancestors knew a lot more than they were given credit for…
Come on folks, here’s the nub of the matter: If the dems truly, honestly, feel that way and have the courage of their conviction, then they should sell their million dollar homes, liquidate their substantial assets and renounce their citizenship posthaste and move..
Disloyal ingrates like those insufferable democrat twits are no longer welcomed in our country and need to voluntarily get the f**k out or be forcibly tossed out. Either way, they gotta go.
Those are the points I make to them in social media. Always shuts them up.
First, just a note about the “plant with a bad smell” Chicago was named after. According to my experience living with Shawnee Indians, it is field garlic, a tasty addition to salads, and was pronounced as chicagosheswe, or something like that.
As to the Dems building up passion to acknowledge Indians who lived here before Europeans, forget about it. Blacks would have to go back to Africa. Think about that, Obama and 1/4 black Harris. I guess other parts of her would have to go to India. I would have to go back to Europe, and maybe way before that, to Israel, except Arab colonizers are making it difficult.
I notice that blacks in particular are seizing on the injustice to Indians theme as a way to discredit America, as a kind of shared “dishonor.” But it does them no good. If blacks had never been brought to America, even as slaves, many of them would have been slaves in Africa, and now many must suffer under Muslim injustice. Keep in mind that in Arabic, the word “abed” means both slave and black.
None of this dishonoring of the US makes sense or has to make sense. The whole point is to tear down what we’ve got and replace it with some idealogues fantasy of utopia. Emotions rule: reality is passe.
Excellent post. By the way, if slavery hadn’t existed, not a single black in the US would have been born
Land acknowledgements are anbother form of woke guilt-read De Tocqqueville on this issue:
““Although the vast country just described was inhabited by numerous tribes of native peoples, one can justly say that at the time of its discovery it was still no more than a wilderness. The Indians occupied it but did not possess it. It is through agriculture that man takes possession of the soil, and the first inhabitants of North America lived by hunting. Their implacable prejudices, their unbridled passions, their vices, and, perhaps most of all, their savage virtues marked them out for inevitable destruction. The ruin of these tribes began the day that Europeans landed on their shores. It has continued ever since and is even now being carried through to completion. Providence placed these people among the riches of the New World but made their enjoyment brief. They were there, in a sense, only in anticipation. These coasts, so well suited to trade and industry, these rivers so deep, this inexhaustible Mississippi valley, this whole continent, in fact, seemed but an empty cradle awaiting the birth of a great nation. Here civilized men would attempt to build society on new foundations. Applying for the first time theories either previously unknown or deemed inapplicable, they would stage for the world a spectacle for which nothing in the history of the past had prepared i
Land acknpwledgements are woke guilt writ large-See this excerpt from DeToucquivuille’s classic Democracy in America:
““Although the vast country just described was inhabited by numerous tribes of native peoples, one can justly say that at the time of its discovery it was still no more than a wilderness. The Indians occupied it but did not possess it. It is through agriculture that man takes possession of the soil, and the first inhabitants of North America lived by hunting. Their implacable prejudices, their unbridled passions, their vices, and, perhaps most of all, their savage virtues marked them out for inevitable destruction. The ruin of these tribes began the day that Europeans landed on their shores. It has continued ever since and is even now being carried through to completion. Providence placed these people among the riches of the New World but made their enjoyment brief. They were there, in a sense, only in anticipation. These coasts, so well suited to trade and industry, these rivers so deep, this inexhaustible Mississippi valley, this whole continent, in fact, seemed but an empty cradle awaiting the birth of a great nation. Here civilized men would attempt to build society on new foundations. Applying for the first time theories either previously unknown or deemed inapplicable, they would stage for the world a spectacle for which nothing in the history of the past had prepared i
Let’s discuss AOC and the remainder of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization.
“DEATH TO HAMAS”
God Bless Israel.
And the Democrat Platform was stolen from Marx and Lenin.
Luckily for Democrats, their peaceful conservationist Native Americans didn’t have access to tactical nuclear weapons. Not only would have these great humanitarians had blow each other off the face of the earth, but Chicago and much of North America for that matter would have remained uninhabitable and made Chernobyl look like a Disney theme park… and still be glowing in the dark!
A couple of points. The author wrote “”also believes in separate human origins for different races (a racist 19th century belief once held by Democrats.)””
So we’re to believe the hypothesis that we all came out of Africa,???
Yes, the land acknowledgements are virtuous nonsense. We never see liberals offering to return them unless they are out in the boonies.
So how does it work that the party that believes in land reparations also wants to cede much of that land to Islamists and Mexicans?
Never miss an opportunity to demonstrate that you are morally superior, especially when it has no consequences and you don’t actually have to do anything.
Instead the DNC reduces the Indians to magical “indigenous” people who “have been here since time immemorial” and “protected our lands, waters, and animals.”
Long ago I read a book by Einat Wilf in which she proposed including Arabs into a mythical narrative about them having held and nurtured the land of Isreal for the return of the Jews. I think I quit reading at that point. Leftists are drawn it seems to false tales as though they have some power to bring us all together to override others’ designs and instincts. Magical thinking.
daniel, thks, as usual an honest and clever essay.
the cardinal question is, 50% of americans went stupid? to vote against themselves when the hama/hizballah flags are proudly flying on usa streets? americans demonstrating for those terrorist with kayia around their necks? i cant say they are crazy, only stupid. famous words of a schizo: i am crazy not stupid.
with the same disturbed mind is she not understands that israel lands are “from immemorial times the jews land.
i tried in simple words without sophistication to express my perplexity looking at a country with 350M people going be led by such scare-crow mind.
any human having at least two circumvolutions can see that continuing obama biden “policy” china will get ALL!
considering the democrats believe america is stolen land , that makes them trespassers . so along with all the glitterati who said they would leave america if trump became president when are they all going to book their tickets to go somewhere else ? anywhere is fine as long as it is a one way ticket . or alternatively considering they have incurable TDS book themselves into rehab or better still an asylum . but like abortionists , those that escaped abortion themselves are happy for it to befall those who are yet born just so they dont have to be responsible for their immoral life and choices . ecclesiastes 9 v3 . ….. the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. afterwards they go to the dead .
If the Left feels that way, then why doesn’t the Left just leave now? Because it has nothing to do with so-called social justice. Rather, it has everything to do with power. BTW, a great book on the topic of stolen land is the book, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World (2023), by Jeff Fynn-Paul.
Folks, let’s face it – the various tribes of North America were only slightly removed from the caveman. They had no metal tools, only flint, they walked everywhere, and they didn’t even have the wheel They were divided into tribes who fought against each other, just like the Crips and Bloods and all the other inner-city gangs. Sure, there were a few tribes scattered around who had developed some agriculture, but not a whole lot and most of them were preyed upon by the more warlike tribes like the Iroquois and Apache, which is why they made friends with the Pilgrims as they saw that the Europeans had metal tools and firearms with which to repel the hostile tribes. It was a battle between stone-age tribes and the advanced European culture that was light-years ahead of them. Of course they were going to lose. “nuff said.