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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 24, 2022, 8:09 pm
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Remember, holidays count as statues:
HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/world/new-zealand-matariki-mori-new-year-first-indigenous-holiday-intl-hnk/index.html
[quote]New Zealand celebrates Māori New Year as an official
public holiday for the first time
(CNN)For the first time, New Zealanders are enjoying an
official public holiday this June 24 to celebrate Matariki --
also known as Māori New Year.
Matariki is the Māori name for a cluster of stars, also
known as the Pleiades, the rising of which is recognized by many
of the country's Indigenous people as the start of the new year.
In a statement, the New Zealand government noted that this is
"the first public holiday to recognize Te Ao Māori" or the
Māori worldview. The official holiday was established in
April, with the passing of the Te Kāhui o Matariki Public
Holiday Act.
...
Māori, who make up about 15% of New Zealand's population,
were dispossessed of much of their land during Britain's
colonization of the country. Thousands of Māori have
protested for civil and social rights in recent years, and have
criticized governments for failing to address social and
economic inequalities.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a
new curriculum with mandatory teaching of Māori history and
British colonialism.[/quote]
[img]
HTML https://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/003/964/embed/Matariki-Graphic-With-Title_KCC.png?1559707565[/img]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 6, 2022, 7:49 pm
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Spread this idea!
HTML https://twitter.com/bennydiego/status/1543595584522690560
[quote]Mount Rushmore was way more beautiful before white men
destroyed it.
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWvz_FxXwAIiE-m?format=jpg&name=900x900[/img][/quote]
Woke responses:
[quote]we can't have anything nice because of the
colonists.[/quote]
[quote]We ruined a mountain so folks could stop for five minutes
and take a vacation photo.[/quote]
[quote]Rushmore is an embarrassment. The Black Hills were
beautiful, we ruined it in the most self serving and obscene way
possible.[/quote]
[quote]Same can be said for the whole of North America.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 20, 2022, 5:27 pm
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There is much work yet to be done:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-task-force-recommends-removal-214100089.html
[quote]This week, the Chicago Monuments Project finally released
its long-delayed report recommending a series of new public
memorials across the city and the removal of several statues
that the commission flagged for honoring white supremacy or
disrespecting Indigenous peoples.
...
Lightfoot’s task force recommended taking down several other
monuments that negatively depict Indigenous people. One monument
that should be removed, the commission said, is a statue
honoring the Supreme Court chief justice who presided over
Plessy v. Ferguson, which enshrined segregation.
The commission recommended removing the “Jacques Marquette-Louis
Jolliet Memorial” because it “reinforces stereotypes about
American Indians and glorifies a complicated and painful history
of Western expansion. It features a cowering American Indian,
following submissively in the footsteps of Marquette.”
A plaque honoring early Chicago settler John Kinzie should also
be removed, the report said, because it “openly prioritizes
whiteness and denies the existence of Native peoples, and
earlier settler Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.” For similar
reasons, the commission said the “Jean Baptiste Beaubien Plaque”
should go.
Bridge reliefs on the DuSable bridge, including “The Defense,”
“The Pioneers,” “Discoverers” and “Regeneration” should also be
taken down because they show American Indians “as merely a foil
to help define the heroic acts and qualities of colonizing
forces,” though that would be challenging as they’re built into
the physical structure.[/quote]
Just use a jackhammer to chip them off from the sides! As I
always say, there is nothing more poetically just than using
Western tools to destroy Western civilization:
[img width=1280
height=912]
HTML https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RJNWWH/sculpture-of-defense-made-by-american-sculptor-henry-hering-decorated-bridge-tender-house-of-michigan-avenue-bridgechicagoillinoisusa-RJNWWH.jpg[/img]
[quote]The report also recommends taking down tablets dedicated
to explorers De La Salle, Jolliet and Marquette. One of the
plaques, it says, highlights “the first white men to pass
through the Chicago River” and “explicitly voice(s) the ideology
of white supremacy.”
...
One professor, John Low, rebutted the notion that monuments
simply document history.
“Monuments are not innocent. We have to understand the role of
monuments and other commemorative sites and activities in
developing a shared narrative of the past, present and future.
These commemorations can ossify memory and create and perpetuate
master narratives in which one view of past events is granted
legitimacy at the expense of other views,” Low wrote. “They can
contribute to a collective memory that all too quickly becomes
accepted as truth. The Chicago Monuments Project presents the
opportunity to reconsider our monuments and memorials and assess
whether they fairly represent the histories and peoples of
Chicago.”[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: rp Date: August 21, 2022, 9:42 am
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HTML https://youtu.be/RScMXlN51Tw
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 1, 2022, 5:30 pm
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This is the correct attitude:
HTML https://www.cltampa.com/news/florida-indigenous-groups-say-tampas-columbus-statue-will-come-down-one-way-or-another-14078990
[quote]In the lead-up to Christopher Columbus Day on Oct. 10,
local Indigenous groups have told City of Tampa officials to
remove a Columbus statue from the park dedicated to him on
Bayshore Boulevard and W Platt Street. But even if the city
refuses to remove it, the group says the statue will come down.
“One way, or another the statue of Columbus must and will be
removed,” the Florida Indigenous Alliance and the Florida
American Indian Movement wrote in a letter addressed to the
city. [/quote]
There is no reason for Americans to defer to the decision of
Western occupiers.
[quote]The groups want the statue removed and for the city to
replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. For Natives,
Columbus represents slavery, rape, genocide, torture and other
atrocities that he and his companions described in their own
words and in their diaries.
In the letter addressed to the city, the groups point out that
Columbus even did horrific things to Native infants.
“Dominican Friar Bartolome De Las Casas recorded that Columbus
hung Native people in rows of thirteen to honor Christ and his
disciples, and further that Columbus had his men feed Native
infants to dogs,” the letter reads.
...
FIA says that Native Americans first asked for the statue to be
removed in 1991, and spoke before council about the inhumanity
that Columbus represents. But in the ensuing 31 years, the
Indigenous people have only been met with resistance from the
city. At a protest against the statue two years ago, Tampa
Police Department officers surrounded the statue to protect it
after it was covered in fake blood.
And leading up to that protest, TPD officers used taxpayer money
to guard the statue morning and night after it had been tagged
“BLM” and other messages during the George Floyd uprising.
...
In 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis passed a law making it a felony
for protestors to tear down or damage historical statutes, which
would include Columbus statues and confederate
monuments.[/quote]
Do to DeSantis and the TPD what Columbus did his victims!
[quote] FIA says that Columbus’ horrific and inhumane treatment
of Indigenous Peoples endures today in America as Native women
are raped and murdered near camps full of men that are
established for fracking operations.
And recently, thousands of Native children have been discovered
in mass graves in Canada, and many are being uncovered in the
United States. The children were brutalized and killed in
concentration camps called “residential boarding schools” from
the mid 1800s until the late 1970s.
“The celebration of Columbus’s invasion of Caribe, Arawak, and
Taino lands is a celebration of the subjugation of Indigenous
Peoples and the theft of Indigenous lands,” FIA wrote.
“Continuing [to] celebrate that kind of event impairs
reconciliation and understanding.”
FIA said that part of ending celebrating genocide is removing
monuments to the subjugation and genocide of Indigenous people.
The group pointed out that in other cities, when people’s
patience has run out, they’ve taken matters into their own hands
and torn down Columbus statues. But the group says it hopes the
City of Tampa will hear the voice of Natives and make things
right before it has to reach that point.[/quote]
I hope FIA has been buying plenty of firearms.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 9, 2022, 3:20 am
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Defend Mayor Robinson!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cxanPuJNUc
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 10, 2022, 6:18 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/time-federal-government-goodbye-columbus-011827254.html
[quote]It’s Time for the Federal Government to Say Goodbye to
Columbus Day
...
On Monday we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United
States. Well, some of us do.
Across the United States, tribal, federal, states, and local
governments will be closed. They are closed because Monday is a
federal holiday. Of course, the federal holiday does not
celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Instead, the federal holiday
celebrates Christopher Columbus, ignoring the actual history of
the man.
Growing up, I was not taught Columbus really was a lost sailor
who was heading in a whole different direction than the western
hemisphere.
I was also not taught Columbus actually never set foot on the
land that is now known as the United States.
Nor was I taught of the atrocities that Columbus and his men
perpetrated on the innocent Indigenous peoples in the western
hemisphere: the raping of Indigenous women, the thievery of
goods, and ultimately of the land.
No, what I was taught was a constructed false narrative that
began in elementary school about how “Columbus sailed the ocean
blue in 1492” and that he discovered America.
From early childhood as a young Potawatomi boy, I began to view
history from a different lens than my non-Native students.
Native Americans reject the notion you can discover land where
inhabitants already live.[/quote]
I questioned this as a child also. I was taught that Columbus
discovered the New World and encountered the local inhabitants.
I trivially deduced that this implied Columbus was not the first
one there, and asked the teacher why Columbus was nevertheless
credited with the discovery. The idiot teacher couldn't answer
it. (This was the same idiot teacher who couldn't answer my
question of how Adam and Eve are said to be the first humans
considering that Cain is explicitly stated to have found his
wife in another land already inhabited by many more humans.)
[quote]So, Columbus Day was a federal holiday that I felt uneasy
about as it approached each October. Even as a child, I felt
sick for the portrayal of Columbus as a hero, knowing our
country’s constructed history was a hoax.
As an adult, I learned our Indigenous ancestors paid a premium
price because of Columbus.
...
To Native Americans, Columbus is not considered a hero to be
placed on a pedestal; rather, he is considered a dishonored
villain. Indigenous people believe that a man who set in motion
the mass genocide of this land’s first people should not be
honored or glorified.
For this reason, Native Americans have worked to change the
celebration of Columbus Day to instead be called Indigenous
Peoples’ Day. In recent years, in cities and states around the
country, Indigenous Peoples’ Day has gained recognition.
Now, it is time for the federal government to say goodbye to
Columbus and fully embrace Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Last year, in his first year in office, President Joe Biden
issued a proclamation to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. He
was the first U.S. president to do so.
Last Friday, Biden declared Monday, October 10, 2022 as
Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
...
Keeping Columbus Day as a federal holiday allows the constructed
hoax of Columbus discovering America to be perpetuated from one
generation of Americans to the next. That needs to
change.[/quote]
I agree.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 1, 2022, 3:34 pm
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HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/us/richmond-virginia-confederate-statue-reaj-trnd/index.html
[quote]A Tuesday court ruling has cleared the way for Richmond,
Virginia, to remove its last-standing Confederate statue.
The statue, standing at the intersection of the city’s Hermitage
Road and Laburnum Avenue, depicts A.P. Hill, a Confederate
general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the
American Civil War. The statue was erected on top of the
general’s burial site.
...
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney celebrated the ruling in a statement
shared with CNN.
“We’re gratified by Judge Cheek’s ruling. This is the last stand
for the Lost Cause in our city,” said Stoney in the
statement.[/quote]
:)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 7, 2022, 8:43 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9WQ_OHkvo
Woke comments:
[quote]Roosevelt said Churchill hindered negotiations with the
Chinese, who Churchill referred to as "pigtails", as he "was
obsessed with the colour of their skin". Churchill wasn't just a
child of the empire, he was everything colonialism represented.
His treatment of our Indian allies is a huge example of his
attitude to non-white people. [/quote]
[quote]If anyone was interested in factual history, they would
open their eyes and realise how racist Churchill was. English
history in English schools is taught through fluffy rose-tinted
glasses. His involvement in the intentional and deliberate
enabling of counntless atrocities carried out by a militia he
sent to Ireland in the 1920's, known as the 'black and tans', is
very well known, except in Britain itself.[/quote]
See also:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/mainstream-admits-churchill-was-defending-western-civilization/
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 18, 2022, 6:34 pm
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The best way to know we are decolonizing is to read our enemies'
complaints:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/ritualistic-humiliation-black-run-city-of-richmond-virginia-digs-up-remains-of-confederate-general-a-p-hill-after-tearing-down-his-statue
[quote]Our past must be destroyed. There is no honor in
remembering the deeds of those who came before us, or in
revering their sacrifices, even if they ultimately failed.
Humiliation. Ritualistic humiliation.[/quote]
Yes. Western civilization must be destroyed. Why would there be
honour in colonialism? We were the ones being sacrificed by the
colonialists! It is the victims of sacrifice, not the
sacrificers, who should be remembered!
[quote]The city of Richmond, Virginia, has dug up the remains of
Confederate General A.P. Hill as it continues to purge
Confederate symbols and monuments from public spaces.
The remains of Hill, which had been buried under a monument to
the general, were located on Tuesday after two days of digging.
The casket of Hill, who was reportedly buried standing up, was
rotted away when workers finally found the remains using an
excavator.
According to local reporter Riley Wyant, the remains of Hill
were blocked from public view using a tarp before they were
transferred into a body bag and wheeled away on a
stretcher.[/quote]
One day we will do this to the Windsors' graves too!
[quote]The remains were transferred to the general’s relatives,
including John Hill, the general’s closest indirect
descendent.[/quote]
The remains should have gone straight into the sewers.
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