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Re: Name decolonization
By: christianbethel Date: March 25, 2023, 9:12 am
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=11.msg18006#msg18006
date=1676837047]
Our enemies report on our success replacing a Western
colonialist with an American:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/pathfinder-of-the-seas-matthew-maury-not-acceptable-for-today-s-navy-annapolis-s-maury-hall-renamed-for-jimmy-carter
[quote]
HTML https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/59428/VDARE-maury.jpg
...
Matthew Fontaine Maury has been called the ”Pathfinder of the
Seas,” ”Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology” and
”Scientist of the Seas.” According to Wikipedia, ”[Maury]
published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic,
which showed sailors how to use the ocean’s currents and winds
to their advantage, drastically reducing the length of ocean
voyages. Maury’s uniform system of recording oceanographic data
was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and
was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.”
So Maury is very important in the history of navigation, which
ought to be important to the U.S. Navy.
But the Pathfinder of the Seas wasn't woke enough for today's
Navy.
It doesn’t matter what Maury accomplished and how it benefited
the world, because he served as an envoy of the Confederacy
during the Civil War.[/quote]
Yes. Carter, in contrast:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
[quote]The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter
took office. He and his family had become staunch John F.
Kennedy supporters. Carter remained relatively quiet on the
issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to
avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues.
...
Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January
12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time of
racial discrimination is over",[65] shocking the crowd and
causing many of the segregationists who had supported Carter
during the race to feel betrayed.
...
Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black
state employees and portraits of three prominent black
Georgians[which?] to the capitol building, angering the Ku Klux
Klan.[77]
...
Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of
China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic
policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly
collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter
administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of
Vietnam. In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition
to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in
trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing
economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.[205]
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the
sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to
share military intelligence.[206] In January 1980, Carter
unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty
with the Republic of China (ROC), which had lost control of
mainland China to the PRC in 1949, but retained control the
island of Taiwan.
...
During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his
interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from
South Korea
...
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to
global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as
well as the existence of Pakistan.[237][239] These concerns led
to Carter expanding collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which began several months
earlier when the CIA started providing some $695,000 worth of
non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio
transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen in July 1979.[240]
...
on December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly
allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either
directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of
the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan," and to arrange
"selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the
use of such equipment either directly or via third country
intermediation."[240]
...
Carter has expressed no regrets over his decision to support
what he still considers the "freedom fighters" in
Afghanistan.[239]
...
Carter was the first president to make a state visit to
Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.[198]
...
Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best
Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his
characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he
described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples
in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or
controlling the other."[397] In remarks broadcast over radio,
Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid
worse than South Africa's:[398]
"When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West
Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other,
with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that
road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates
even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we
witnessed even in South Africa."[398][/quote]
Here is a rabbi on Carter:
HTML https://observer.com/2014/08/the-moral-disintegration-of-jimmy-carter/
[quote]Mr. Carter always subscribed to what my friend Michael
Scroccaro calls ‘Underdogma,’ a knew-jerk reaction to champion
the cause of the underdog however immoral the party. Poverty
dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness. So, if the
Israelis have jets and the Palestinians only rockets then that
must necessarily mean that the Israelis are the aggressor.
Mr. Carter’s underdog obsession is what motivated him to
legitimize Fidel Castro and take his side in a bio-weapons
dispute with the United States and to praise North Korean
dictator Kim Il Sung with the words: “I find him to be vigorous,
intelligent,…and in charge of the decisions about this country.”
...
Carter told Haitian dictator Raul Cédras that he was “ashamed of
what my country has done to your country,” which made most
Americans ashamed of Jimmy Carter.
...
Carter’s nonstop criticism of Israel and his emergence – in the
words of Alan Dershowitz – as a “cheerleader” for Hamas has
confirmed in the minds of many that Carter has more than a bit
of a problem with the Jewish state.
Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank
were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed
this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel
Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to
“powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S.,
Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned,
voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting
awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that
the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.
Here’s a priceless clip of Jimmy Carter on the Today Show.
Do you believe Hamas can be trusted?
Yes, I do.
Perhaps the clincher is Mr. Carter’s pronouncement that “the key
factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli
settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of
Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and
the West Bank.” According to Carter, Palestinian terrorism,
Iranian nukes, tyrannical Arab governments, and murderous
Islamist religious militancy are not the causes for Middle East
conflict. No, it’s the Jews.[/quote]
The rabbi's words are the best testimony for Carter deserving
American naval buildings named after him.
[img width=1280
height=800]
HTML https://news.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/A250_Jimmy_Carter-scaled.jpg[/img]
[/quote]
He also gave the WWII 763rd Tank Battalion (all-'Black'
battalion) a Presidential Unit Citation. Looks like my hunch
about him was correct.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 25, 2023, 5:20 pm
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"Malcolm X"
There are already plenty of places named after Malcolm X:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Memorials_and_tributes
[quote]In cities across the United States, Malcolm X's birthday
(May 19) is commemorated as Malcolm X Day. The first known
celebration of Malcolm X Day took place in Washington, D.C., in
1971.[337] The city of Berkeley, California, has recognized
Malcolm X's birthday as a citywide holiday since 1979.[338]
Many cities have renamed streets after Malcolm X. In 1987, New
York mayor Ed Koch proclaimed Lenox Avenue in Harlem to be
Malcolm X Boulevard.[339] The name of Reid Avenue in Brooklyn,
New York, was changed to Malcolm X Boulevard in 1985.[340][341]
Brooklyn also has El Shabazz Playground that was named after
him.[342] New Dudley Street, in the Roxbury neighborhood of
Boston, was renamed Malcolm X Boulevard in the 1990s.[343] In
1997, Oakland Avenue in Dallas, Texas, was renamed Malcolm X
Boulevard.[344] Main Street in Lansing, Michigan, was renamed
Malcolm X Street in 2010.[345] In 2016, Ankara, Turkey, renamed
the street on which the U.S. is building its new embassy after
Malcolm X.[346][347][Q]
Dozens of schools have been named after Malcolm X, including
Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey,[349]
Malcolm Shabazz City High School in Madison, Wisconsin,[350]
Malcolm X College in Chicago, Illinois,[351] and El-Hajj Malik
El-Shabazz Academy in Lansing, Michigan.[352] Malcolm X
Liberation University, based on the Pan-Africanist ideas of
Malcolm X, was founded in 1969 in North Carolina.[353]
In 1996, the first library named after Malcolm X was opened, the
Malcolm X Branch Library and Performing Arts Center of the San
Diego Public Library system.[354][/quote]
I never said any of these should be renamed after Elijah
Muhammad instead.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: christianbethel Date: March 26, 2023, 12:35 pm
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Personally, I don't think anything should be named after Elijah
Muhammad after what he did.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 26, 2023, 6:07 pm
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So you agree with the ADL.....
#Post#: 18671--------------------------------------------------
Re: Name decolonization
By: christianbethel Date: March 30, 2023, 3:00 pm
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Do they presume Elijah Muhammad had a hand in Malcolm's death?
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 30, 2023, 2:38 pm
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-china-sea-beijing-opens-093000917.html
[quote]South China Sea: Beijing opens hotpot restaurant on Woody
Island in disputed Paracels chain
...
Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, is the largest outcrop
in the group of about 30 islands making up the Paracels. Called
Xisha in Chinese
...
Beijing has also artificially built-up and heavily militarised
the Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly
Islands[/quote]
A lot of Western colonial names here that must be cease to be
used ASAP:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands
[quote]The Amphitrite group was named after the French frigate
Amphitrite
...
The islands were first scientifically surveyed by Daniel Ross of
the British East India Company in 1808.[38] The names of Duncan,
Drummond, Money, Pattle and Roberts islands were all chosen in
honor of senior figures in the East India Company.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands
[quote]Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain
Richard Spratly[/quote]
etc.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 12, 2023, 6:01 pm
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12069671/Fort-Hood-officially-changes-Fort-Cavazos.html
[quote]Texas Army base Fort Hood has officially changed its name
to Fort Cavazos as part of the US Army's ongoing effort to
rename a handful of bases that currently carry the names of
Confederate officers.
On Tuesday, the US Army formally changed the name of the base to
honor General Richard Edward Cavazos, a four-star general who
fought in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.[/quote]
This is only a marginal improvement. Neither the Korean nor the
Vietnam war should have been fought by the US. Why not name the
base after someone who participated in bombing Serbia instead?
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 2ThaSun Date: June 18, 2023, 2:56 pm
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The U.S. Army renames a base in honor of Sgt. William Henry
Johnson, a Black WWI hero
[quote]Louisiana's Fort Polk became the latest U.S. Army
installation to shed its Confederate namesake on Tuesday when it
was officially renamed Fort Johnson after a Black World War I
hero.
The base now honors Sgt. William Henry Johnson, whose actions on
the front lines in France earned him the nickname Black Death
during his lifetime and a posthumous Medal of Honor nearly a
century later.
"The Warrior Spirit that burned with in Sgt. William Henry
Johnson now inspires generations of Soldiers — Soldiers that
will now call JRTC and Fort Johnson home and Soldiers that will
continue to come here from all over the nation and the world to
train," said Brig. Gen. David Gardner, commanding general of
Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Johnson, in a Facebook
post.
Johnson's courage became the stuff of legend after the night of
May 15, 1918, when he nearly single-handedly stopped German
forces from approaching the main French line and taking his
fellow soldier prisoner in the process.
He maintained a fierce defense during the surprise attack,
continuing to fight even after being injured by enemy fire and
running out of ammunition. Johnson turned to hand-to-hand combat
and his bolo knife, eventually killing four German troops and
wounding between 10 and 20 others, according to the National
Museum of the United States Army.
"By the time what a reporter called 'The Battle of Henry
Johnson' was over, Johnson had been wounded 21 times and had
become the first American hero of World War I," says the U.S.
Department of Defense...[/quote]
Entire article:
HTML https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182155304/fort-polk-renamed-william-henry-johnson-black-wwi-hero
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Re: Name decolonization
By: guest98 Date: June 23, 2023, 3:42 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-sir-john-a-macdonald-parkway-renaming-1.6884063
Ottawa's Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway renamed Kichi
Zībī Mīkan
[quote]
The National Capital Commission (NCC) board of directors voted
Thursday to rename the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway as Kichi
Zībī Mīkan.
The Ottawa River Parkway was renamed in 2012 after Canada's
first prime minister, who oversaw the centralization and
expansion of the country's residential school system.
Indigenous people have called for a new name for years. Ottawa
city councillors along the roadway joined them in 2021 and in
January of this year, the NCC's board voted to change the name.
Earlier this month, its CEO said the new name was chosen after
consulting Algonquin people.
Mīkan, pronounced MEE-khan, is an Algonquin word meaning
road or path. Kichi Zībī means great river and is the
Algonquin name for what would later be called the Ottawa River.
The name change is effective immediately, according to NCC media
relations. Signs will be changed and staff told board members
Thursday the name will be officially unveiled at an event on
Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Albert Dumont, an Algonquin spiritual advisor from Kitigan Zibi
Anishinābeg First Nation north of Ottawa, has been one of
the leading advocates for changing the name and organized a
protest about it on Sept. 30 last year.
He said earlier this week it's going to feel good hearing the
replacement.
"My heart will be glad every time," he told the CBC's Hallie
Cotnam.
Macdonald's government enforced policies that starved Indigenous
people to force them from their land and outlawed their
ceremonies.
It also centralized and expanded a residential school system
that took generations of children from their families and tried
to wipe out their cultures. There was widespread abuse and
thousands of children were killed, with trauma still being felt
today.
"Understand what Macdonald wanted to do to the Indigenous
peoples: he wanted them to disappear and his laws and policies
are clear on that," Dumont said.
"He is guilty of genocide. People need to think about that and
process it."
Dumont said there are people who disagree with changing the
name.
"You can't compare a name disappearing from a roadway to him
doing everything he possibly could to make a people disappear."
[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 27, 2023, 2:14 pm
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Thank you!
HTML https://www.kcra.com/article/3-sacramento-schools-wont-be-named-after-racist-historical-figures-anymore-district-says/44321366#
[quote]SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Three Sacramento schools are getting new names as part of a
rebrand away from the racist historical California figures they
were named after, the Sacramento City Unified School District
said.
SCUSD's board voted Thursday to rename Sutter Middle School,
Peter Burnett Elementary School and Kit Carson International
Academy, with the three being schools viewed as having “the most
egregious school names,” according to the district.
...
Sutter Middle School will be renamed Miwok Middle School in
honor of the Miwok people who lived in the region when Europeans
came to California.
Peter Burnett will be renamed Suy:u Elementary, which is
pronounced: “suu you.” Suy: u is the Miwok name for "hawk." The
name was inspired by recommendations from the school’s students
and community members to call the school Red Tail Hawk
Elementary.
Kit Carson is being renamed Umoja International Academy in a
tribute to the first principal of Kwanzaa to strive for and
maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
...
As part of the proposal, members of the renaming committee
produced short biographical profiles about Sutter, Carson and
Burnett’s racist and exploitative behavior and a list of sources
by historians.
“Sutter enslaved Native peoples by making war on local tribes,
which provided him with a steady source of free labor for his
enterprises as well as a source of income by which to reduce his
debts through the sale of orphaned children,” the Sutter bio
says.
The bio notes that some Miwok and Nisenan residents were drawn
to his trading post for security, but then after beginning
working for him, “the threat of violence prevented indigenous
people from leaving, which meant their permanent enslavement.”
The section on Carson links the famous trapper and guide to the
ambush of a village on the Sacramento River that killed several
hundred people.
“Serving as Colonel John C. Frémont’s scout in California, in
1846 Kit Carson and Frémont’s men destroyed a village on the
Sacramento River with artillery and rifle fire and then
descended upon the village with swords, pistols, axes, and
knives,” the bio says. “Anyone attempting to escape was chased
down and murdered by mounted soldiers wielding Tomahawks.”
Carson later commanded an expedition against the Navajo, who
refused removal to reservations.
That expedition “killed all Navajo men wherever they were found,
burned crops, destroyed villages, slaughtered livestock,” among
other actions.
Burnett, California’s first governor, is noted for first
becoming the supreme judge of Oregon’s territorial government
and advocating “for the total exclusion of all African Americans
from the territory.”
He became known for authoring what was called “Burnett’s lash
law,” which allowed the beating of any free Black people who
refused to leave the territory.
The bio said that Burnett owned two slaves that he kept in
California and also advocated for exclusion once he moved to the
Golden State.
“Regarding California’s tribal communities, Burnett gave state
money to local militias to exterminate the indigenous peoples
and worked with the U.S. government to obtain the resources
needed to carry out this genocide,” the bio says.[/quote]
At last, it's not OK for school names to be "white"!
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