I share your Patriotic Sentiment

Jan 03, 2004 16:29

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, ( Read more... )

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maryjanerx January 3 2004, 23:29:44 UTC
wonderful!

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liqudanthropoid January 4 2004, 00:25:48 UTC
I recently went to see the liberty bell with my little brothers, and they had a section devoted to native americans, and how they see the whole thing a tad differently. The bell didn't ring they're freedom; rather, it told them to get the fuck out.

It's an uncommmon thing for an Icon of Amrican history to point out the fact that we're biased and hypocritical bastards.

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Re: vonnegut is vonderful. liqudanthropoid January 4 2004, 14:57:39 UTC
I love Vonnegut

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