Happy ‘What should we call it?’ Day
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Columbus discovered America – tcwmits1
Discovered America? How can you discover something that’s already in use? See that BMW over there? Let’s discover it. —-Dick Gregory
What if “Columbus Day” was given the more accurate name “Celebrate Genocide Day”?
—-The Professor who dares to ask what if2
PWDAWI, makes several citations to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Democracy Now! today [after headlines] {large raster BitTorrent download} is an interview with Canadian Cree singer/songwriter Buffy St-Marie. Included is a performance of ‘Universal Soldier’. In Buffy’s view, for a Native American to ‘make it’ requires a lucky accident. She spends her money on education from the Native American point of view.
1The Common White Man In The Street.
2I don’t know where she teaches. I would say definitely not Harvard, but that would be snarky. I’ll just say definitely not in Harvard economics or government. Jack Womack has been emeritized by Harvard history, but there are still some folks around who question.
That said, I still reserve the right to question whether Harvard’s pair of world historical jacks question enough.
