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[[File:racistsco.jpg|right|250px|thumb|This is an example of racist hate speech produced by groups like the SanCopha League who would be better off listening to men like [[George Washington Carver]] and [[Booker T Washington]]. Many native Americans were murdering, raping, and enslaving each other long before the European arrived. Some had [[Native American Confederacy|policies of oppression]] and even human sacrifice<Ref name="aztec"></Ref>. Many Native American tribes such as the Creek and the Choctaw were slaveholders. Tribes such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Catawba, and Creek tribes fought on the Confederate side.]] | [[File:racistsco.jpg|right|250px|thumb|This is an example of racist hate speech produced by groups like the SanCopha League who would be better off listening to men like [[George Washington Carver]] and [[Booker T Washington]]. Many native Americans were murdering, raping, and enslaving each other long before the European arrived. Some had [[Native American Confederacy|policies of oppression]] and even human sacrifice<Ref name="aztec"></Ref>. Many Native American tribes such as the Creek and the Choctaw were slaveholders. Tribes such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Catawba, and Creek tribes fought on the Confederate side.]] | ||
The desire to divide people by race, describe the character or morality | The desire to [[divide]] people by race, describe the character or morality of people by race, or organize people in some form of intersectionality by race is racist. We can and should only measure and judge individual people according to their present character and personal deeds and past actions if we truly desire equality. | ||
The historical fact is some European whites protected, defended, and befriended native people and some also abused them. But it is also a fact that some native tribal people were killing, invading, enslaving, raping each other from one end of the Americas to the other while there were also good moral native Americans. Some of the | The historical fact is some European whites protected, defended, and befriended native people and some also abused them. But it is also a fact that some native tribal people were killing, invading, enslaving, raping each other from one end of the Americas to the other while there were also good moral native Americans who were more than worthy of our praise and gratitude. Some of the white settlers and native Americans, African people were both good and band or righteous and wicked or moral and evil within the same lifetime. | ||
Dividing good and evil by race is the definition of what a racist does and that is both unproductive and a snare of the heart. | Dividing good and evil by race is the definition of what a racist does and that is both unproductive and a [[snare]] of the heart. | ||
The Aztecs were killing and enslaving people by the tens of thousands<Ref name="aztec">"Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture#Scope_of_Human_Sacrifice_In_Aztec_Culture Wikipedia]</Ref> because they had the power to do so until the Spanish came with more power | The Aztecs as a nation were killing and enslaving people by the tens of thousands<Ref name="aztec">"Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture#Scope_of_Human_Sacrifice_In_Aztec_Culture Wikipedia]</Ref> because they had the power to do so until the Spanish came with more power and aided some freedom fighting Aztecs and their neighbors in overthrowing that brutal regime. This as all possible because of Columbus, who may have been an answer to those brutalized victims' prayers. | ||
Each generation must guard themselves | Each generation, each man and each woman must guard themselves against the spirit of lies and prejudice which leads to tyranny. Even a modern voter in a [[Democracy|democracy]] may have the seed of tyranny growing in their heart when they wield the power to oppress their neighbor and force him to pay for the [[Benefits|benefits]] they want. | ||
Columbus is dead. He has crossed the ''great divide'' that we all encounter sooner or later. Was he Saint or sinner? | Columbus is dead. He has crossed the ''great divide'' that we all encounter sooner or later. Was he Saint or sinner? Probably a little of both from time to time. | ||
Probably a little of both from time to time. | |||
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The Nativity of Oppression
The desire to divide people by race, describe the character or morality of people by race, or organize people in some form of intersectionality by race is racist. We can and should only measure and judge individual people according to their present character and personal deeds and past actions if we truly desire equality.
The historical fact is some European whites protected, defended, and befriended native people and some also abused them. But it is also a fact that some native tribal people were killing, invading, enslaving, raping each other from one end of the Americas to the other while there were also good moral native Americans who were more than worthy of our praise and gratitude. Some of the white settlers and native Americans, African people were both good and band or righteous and wicked or moral and evil within the same lifetime.
Dividing good and evil by race is the definition of what a racist does and that is both unproductive and a snare of the heart.
The Aztecs as a nation were killing and enslaving people by the tens of thousands[1] because they had the power to do so until the Spanish came with more power and aided some freedom fighting Aztecs and their neighbors in overthrowing that brutal regime. This as all possible because of Columbus, who may have been an answer to those brutalized victims' prayers.
Each generation, each man and each woman must guard themselves against the spirit of lies and prejudice which leads to tyranny. Even a modern voter in a democracy may have the seed of tyranny growing in their heart when they wield the power to oppress their neighbor and force him to pay for the benefits they want.
Columbus is dead. He has crossed the great divide that we all encounter sooner or later. Was he Saint or sinner? Probably a little of both from time to time.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony." Wikipedia