North east. I’ll dig up the article Typos courtesy of auto spell. > On Aug 26, 2020, at 4:24 PM, Peter Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm surprised to learn that the native tribes on the east coast were wiped > out by diseases imported by trappers before European settlers arrived. I > would have thought that the trappers who brought diseases that wiped out the > native population would have been Europeans themselves. Perhaps the > "Indians" who the European settlers encountered when they arrived were > actually trappers in disguise. > > St. Augustine, a city in Florida, has been in continual occupation since its > founding in 1565. It was founded by Spanish settlers, sent by the same > government that sent Columbus and enslaved native people we often call > Indians. If we want to define a "project" by the modern boundaries drawn by > Europeans, we miss the point: Europeans came to the Americas and enslaved > "Indians" before they imported slaves from Africa. All slavery is bad, and > all victims of it deserve recognition for that. And the last time I looked, > St. Augustine is part of the U.S. > > If Chris' thesis were to reflect actual history, or even what has been > purported to be history by the racist historians we learned from in school, > we would have a European settler population who arrived to find no native > population. We have a slogan for that thesis, one that has been popularized > by European settlers in South Africa and Palestine: "A land without a people > for a people without a land". > > Sorry, I don't buy it. Not the slogan, not the re-write of history, and not > the dismissal of the plight of native people. The 1619 Project's thesis that > the U.S. revolution was largely, or even mostly, about the perpetuation of > slavery is an important correction to our country's myopic vision of its > self-manufactured greatness. But for one representative of one of the groups > victimized by slavery to implicitly ignore another group's genocide, > including slavery, is simply wrong. >
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