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No wonder so many students need to find "causes" inspired by Internet memes, social media that is not social and other holier than thou bullshit artists who want to remove Christopher Columbus statues, remove Christ from Christmas and profess that one race's life matters more than others. ...
Actually, Black Lives Matter is about making sure other people of color are treated equally, as currently they are disproportionately stopped, searched and arrested illegally, but hey don't let facts get in the way of your rhetoric. Luckily for you, I hear the Red White (Supremacists) Club will be doing a promotional giveaway of hoods for a game this year.
Actually, BLM is not about "OTHER" people of color. If you took the time to read their mission statement that would be clear to a scholar like yourself.
"Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where
Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of
Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of
deadly oppression."
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And nothing about that mission statement is incorrect. They do face deadly oppression when non-partisan studies have shown that people of color are disproportionately effected by police brutality/abuse of power. Glad to hear though that you know what it's like to be black, can walk a mile in their shoes and can delegitimize what they are feeling.
As for Christopher Columbus, here is the hero who you feel deserves a statue:
“While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her into my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that (to tell you the end of it all), I took a rope and thrashed her well, for which she raised such unheard of screams that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we came to an agreement in such manner that I can tell you that she seemed to have been brought up in a school of harlots.”
First, thanks for the " Fifty Shades of Juan Rabinowitz" , the Shephardic Jew who took his pleasure with that beautiful naked Carib woman and, as you described, became a sexual harlot after a few thrashes.
Which brings into discussion whether all the oppression you allude to would not have happened had it not been for your landsman in 1492.
Far be it for me to implicate the Jews as some of my closest friends are Jews but since you seem to associate Italian pride on Columbus Day with rape and oppression, here are some bits of historical facts for you to nosh on.
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Spain to Give Sephardic Jews Special Place in Columbus Rites
Associated Press
MADRID — When Queen Isabella sent Christopher Columbus off to sea in 1492, she also expelled Jews from Spain. Now, as the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America nears, Spain is offering Sephardic Jews around the world a special place in the celebrations.
Sepharad is the Hebrew name for Spain. Sephardim are descendants of the people expelled by Queen Isabella, or those who follow Sephardic rites.
Special plans are being made for them during commemorations in 1992 of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landfall in the Caribbean.
Spain's secretary of state for international cooperation, Luis Yanez, already has declared Toledo the "international capital of Sepharad-92," likening the ancient city to a "Sephardic Jerusalem."
Toledo, 40 miles south of Madrid, was the site of a flourishing Jewish community and a center of international learning in the 12th to 15th centuries.
The government decision puts Toledo on a par with Barcelona and Seville in importance in the observance of the anniversary's other main events--the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and the World's Fair in Seville.
The dual objective, Yanez said, is to make Toledo "a center of international pilgrimage," and "to publicize Spain's Jewish past both at home and abroad."
Samuel Toledano, leader of Spain's Jewish community, said the anniversary plans are of "great importance because it means the re-encounter of the new, democratic Spain with its Jewish past, before, during and after the fateful year of 1492."
"We plan to take an active part in studying all the events surrounding 1492," Toledano added. "On the one hand these events were the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, but on the other, they were the very important Jewish participation in the saga of the discovery and colonization of America."
Aug. 3, 1492, the day Columbus set sail from Palos, near Huelva, coincided with the deadline set for Jews to leave Spain, Toledano said.
The Jewish Cartographic School on the Mediterranean island of Majorca made the Italian-born sailor's voyage technically possible. And much of the money needed to finance the voyages was put up by Jewish financiers and advisers of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, Roman Catholics.
"A third of the crew members on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were Jews," Toledano said, "and that's not even getting into the historical controversy over whether Columbus himself was a Jew.""
