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Biden becomes first president to issue proclamation marking Indigenous Peoples' Day:
President Joe Biden issued a proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples' Day on Friday, becoming the first US president to do so, the White House said.
"The contributions that Indigenous peoples have made throughout history — in public service, entrepreneurship, scholarship, the arts, and countless other fields — are integral to our Nation, our culture, and our society," Biden wrote in the proclamation Friday. "Today, we acknowledge the significant sacrifices made by Native peoples to this country — and recognize their many ongoing contributions to our Nation."
Biden also marked a change of course from previous administrations in his proclamation marking Columbus Day, which honors the explorer Christopher Columbus. In that proclamation, the President acknowledged the death and destruction wrought on native communities after Columbus journeyed to North America in the late 1500s, ushering in an age of European exploration of the Western Hemisphere.
"Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities. It is a measure of our greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light, and we do all we can to address them," Biden wrote.
More than 100 cities -- including Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco -- and a number of states -- including Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont and Oregon -- have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, choosing instead to recognize the native populations that were displaced and decimated after Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent. Berkeley, California, was the first city to adopt Indigenous Peoples' Day, in 1992.
Also at Al Jazeera.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:26AM (14 children)
How the fuck is this Nazi bullshit getting modded "4 insightful"?
If the new efforts to address sock puppet accounts has been effective, the far-right extremist, fascist, nazi, alt-right, racist scumbags are out in full force on this site again.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @02:01AM (3 children)
Relentless wokeness with it's year-zero, fact-free, revisionist zeal is annoying people. If you see bigotry everywhere, there's a good chance you're the bigot. It is you employing epithets in place of argument.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @02:43AM (2 children)
> Relentless wokeness
No. Just not a fascist spreading lies as fascists do.
Cities:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/17/lost-cities-8-mystery-ahokia-illinois-mississippians-native-americans-vanish [theguardian.com]
And, the Maya, Inca, Aztec, and Olmec cities south of the US border also were sized similarly to their European contemporaries.
And, this list is not exhaustive; there were others.
And, nearly everybody knows this. Lying about it is just a Nazi tactic to try to win over more ignorant basement dwelling incels into their ranks.
The GGP is just a far-right racist rant. And, calling it out as such isn't wokeness nor any other B.S. term fascists use to describe non-Nazis and ideologies opposed to Nazis/Alt right/Christian Identity/KKK/fascists/whatever term Nazis are re-branding themselves as today.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:21PM (1 child)
and all those "native cities" were engineered by white men, according to the mongoloids own religions. dumb fucking slave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:09AM
APK is a low IQ piece of shit. Wouldn't you agree?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @02:53PM (9 children)
Dude/dudette, you did nothing to counter the claims and are here just name calling. You are the problem here.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @04:14PM (8 children)
Have you read the comments on pretty much any recent article lately?
This site is turning into Parler, MeWe, Gab.
If folks are not going to mod the Nazis into oblivion, this site will be lost to them.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday October 11 2021, @05:02PM (4 children)
If you bother to log in YOU could moderate them - but that is obviously too difficult for you.
There is no need to rant about it - this site is way better than those you refer to and nothing like as bad as you are suggesting.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:08AM (3 children)
No, I can't, janrinok, even if I log in. Thanks for letting the Nazis take over SoylentNews!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday October 12 2021, @06:00AM (2 children)
No, YOU can't. You abuse this site far more than the Nazis you accuse of doing the same.
They haven't taken over this site. Your world view is so skewed you see things that do not exist. You earned this ban - you can now wait until it is lifted.
Discussion closed.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 12 2021, @07:43PM (1 child)
Peace in our time, eh? That is a good British politician! Happy Chamberlain, janrinock!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:50AM
Wir sind alle auf aristarchus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:27PM (1 child)
"Nazi" is a Jew slur for national socialists who were just trying to get the Bolshevik insurgents out of the country and the international jew bankers out of Germany's finance. Communist Jews were taking over cities and sabotaging Germany's ww1 war efforts, among all their other corrosive tactics. Talmudic, supremacist Jews are the problem, not "Nazis".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:48PM
Aww the degenerate Nazi wants to rewrite history because no one likes Nazi incels. Poor little nazi baby, I hear they have pills for all your personal failings.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:19AM
"This site is turning into Parler, MeWe, Gab."
Has been for a long time, nothing new there. The sock puppet hunt was incredibly strict on evidence so only the most blatant offenders got caught. It is 100% still occurring, and the sad fact is that the trolls are paid agitators meant to destroy any conversations that lead to real change. Well, some are just useful idiots spreading their alt-right bigotry and conspiracy theories.