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posted by martyb on Sunday October 10 2021, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly

[Ed note: In observance of the US federal holiday which is observed on Monday October 11, 2021, I am inviting the editorial staff to run stories on a weekend schedule tomorrow. Please join me in thanking them for all their hard work and for the sacrifice of their spare time and energy! --martyb.]

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:58AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:58AM (#1186333)

    Disagree? [annefrank.org]

    According to Hitler, the Jews were after world dominance. And they would not hesitate to use all possible means, including capitalism. In this way, Hitler took advantage of the existing prejudice that linked the Jews to monetary power and financial gain.

    Hitler was not bothered by the apparent contradictions in his thinking. He held that communism was a Jewish conspiracy, too, as the larger part of the communist leaders were Jewish. Nevertheless, only a small proportion of the Jews were communists.

    Does the NSDAP 25 point plan from 1920 [fordham.edu] read like it was written by a free-market capitalist?

    Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed, the whole people will now be free. We are not fighting Jewish or Christian capitalism, we are fighting very capitalism: we are making the people completely free. -- Adolf Hitler (Munich, April 12th 1922)

    But we National Socialists wish precisely to attract all socialists, even the Communists; we wish to win them over from their international camp to the national one. -- Adolf Hitler (Otto Wagener, "Hitler - Memoirs of a Confidant")

    Remember kids: just say "no" to socialism of either the nationalist or internationalist variety.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:15PM (#1186462)

    annefrank.org says only a small portion of Jews were communists! lmao! they were fucking taking over towns and assassinating politicians, as well as sabotaging Germany during ww1. They were/are a parasitic infection in any White nation. Hitler was right!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:07AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:07AM (#1186556)

      The world will be better off when you're no longer a part of it. Just a thought, though I guess you might be able to grow as a person so that this current "you" is gone. Either way would be a win, your call.