WOW more of the likes of Ward Churchill out there! What a surprise! As I have written before, and commented in published articles in our regional press and in Selected Readings on School Reform, creeping left-wing multiculturalism is entrenched in the elite colleges, particularly in liberal arts, more so in schools of education and especially and overwhelmingly in "ethnic studies fields" which are, as we have seen with Ward Churchill, that phoney-baloney American Indian, bully pulpits for anti-American anti-Western propaganda.

Already in my studies at UVA, a supposedly "conservative school" I have heard numerous anti-Republican remarks. One teacher said, in front of the entire class, as a joke "no Republican ever gets an A" here. I ignored it because frankly my dear I don't give a damn. I am here to learn a little bit and jump through a few hoops. In addition, of course, everybody has a bad conscience about the history of what shall we call them now -what is the officially preferred term you must use to get tenure- oh, yes, African-Americans and of course "Native Americans" who remarkably are also American Indians again. In the Smithsonian exhibit the "history of America's wars" i was struck by the fact that they used the word Indian exclusively, perhaps because most of the primary documents used that word.

Now to the crux of the matter: Snooty Mahmood Mamdani's damning quote:
"When America was built on two monumental crimes: the genocide of the Native American and the enslavement of the African American. "

Of course, anyone may assert anything but though this has a iota of truth it is essentially hateful, false propaganda.

The story of the United States and all of the new world nations founded by European empires vis-a-vis the American Indian tribes is often a tragic story.

But there are many examples of triumph and surivival in this story. That proves that the charge of "genocide" is more than an exaggeration. It is a politcally charged lie probably motivated by hatred of the Jews their American friends but especially the Jews. If everyone suffers 'genocide' then the reason for Israel and the sympathy engendered thereby is diminished. Israel becomes just another land grab another "Crusader state" . Except for one thing. The Jews have the most ancient roots in the region and have built up their nation from the ground up with education and freedom, sweat and guts not empty rhetoric, something I would suggest to Mahmood Mamdani and his ilk. But of course it is easier to blame others for our ills, it is easier as Hitler knew, to look for scapegoats. The Arab world (not the Moslem world) is a mess and the primary reason is self-evident. It is the bloody-minded, closed minded and arrogant attitudes of the Arab elites themselves and their inefficient use of their enormous oil wealth, which will someday run out or become obsolete.

The myth of the INTENTIONAL EXTERMINATION of the Native American Indians of course was first blamed on the Spaniards with the Black Legend (La Leyenda Negra). There is no doubt the Spanish wanted to subjugate the New World for Gold, Glory and the Cross but it is also a fact that the Spanish system ultimately assimilated most Indians into their culture and due to this they preserved what we know about ancient Amerindian cultures. Most of the foods we eat of American origin and most of what we know about the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas derives from the cultural exchange that took place in the Spanish Missions.
I have often asked my students, who are 95% Latin American and almost all of whom have Indian ancestry, if there was any evidence in this classroom that the Spanish did not practice 'genocide' on American Indians. Of course the evidence found among the students themselves.

This casual use of the word 'genocide' -a word I am sure you know was coined to describe the horrors of the Nazi crime directed PRIMARILY at the Jews only serves to downplay the extent of the systematic Nazi crime. If we use the word 'genocide' which must mean the INTENTIONAL PREMEDITATED, ORGANIZED EXTERMINATION OF AN ENTIRE RACE OR PEOPLE AS A MATTER OF POLICY OF AN EMPIRE OR NATION-STATE.

If we are not careful about our use of this word then we can claim genocide -with all its implications- in the case of the Irish vis-a-vis the English or this might make Mahmood happy, the Spanish Christians versus the Moorish Arabs or Jews. But even in the case of Queen Isabella, who was without a doubt an implacable enemy of the Moors, whatever moral crimes she committed against Jews, Moors and Christians in her quest to unify Spain, she cannot, fairly, be accused of genocide. Unlike Mahmood Mamdani's kinsman Queen Isabella was concerned the morality of slavery and the property rights of women. She was adamant that her Native Indians subjects not be enslaved. It has been written many times, of course, that Queen Isabella's work and the work of her Church, notablly Bartolome de las Casas, caused Black Slavery to be introduced to Cuba and thence to Virginia via the Portuguse example who learned it from the Arabs.
Oh my, was Islamic Civilization built upon the "monumental crime" of conquest by the sword, black slavery (the word Mulatto is Arabic) and let's add another "monumental crime", the oppression of women and minorities? Just a thought.

Likewise, it is true that Virginia, where I am living now was the lynchpin of success for the English Empire, later called the British Empire and later as Jefferson called it, America's Empire for Liberty.
It is also true that the economic success of Virginia was builit upon forced labor: Indentured Servitude (sometimes called White Slavery) and later the more odious institution of black chattel slavery.
It is a law of history that someone has to do the work. The history of the African-American, who is really, not African at all but a mix of American Indian, White and African is often a tragic story as well. But this mixed race American people -and that's what they are -they are only partially African -the way my own children are only partially Scottish Gaels- has given us many examples of triumph and surivival in this story. It is a great story with great people who triumphed agains the odds, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Dubois, Martin Luther King not to mention all the authors, athletes, statesmen and stateswomen like Secretary of State Rice and Colin Powell. This march of success is hardly the story of an people eternally oppressed.

I am not ashamed to say I have had many Jewish friends and teachers in my life and that we had one thing in common. We loved America because we owed so much to her including a liberty and a sense of hope, dignity and opportunity we never knew in the Old World.

We loved America because for all its faults it is a great and a good and a free land and it is the world's last, best hope.

That's why when Uncle Sam called us to defend America our small immigrant family circle rose up without hesitation for fight for her against evildoers who would quench the flame of liberty and stifle the hopes of humanity for a better life of peace and freedom. Their grave markers are at places called Dunkirk, Guadalcanal, El-Alamein, Normandy, Bastogne as well as Arlington Cemetary. As the old song goes " freemen's blood and tears has always told our story, of free lands and of bold lands...faith that dare not lie but would die for kith and homeland." Their sacrifice assured our freedom and THAT is the real history of America, the struggle for freedom and dignity not just for a few but for everyone.

I am proud of my ancient heritage, it is part of my soul, part of what I am.

But I am proudest to be an American by choice and on the same team as Washington, Lincoln, TR, FDR, IKE, JFK, Reagan and Now Ole W, President Bush.

Apologists for Islamofascism should be denounced for what they are: intellectual Fifth Columnists who would probably if the chance came give aid and comfort to our enemies.

And make no mistake our worst enemies want to see the fall of America and Israel and the true genocide and extermination of the Jewish people.

Instead of attacking the USA people like Mahmood Mandani should do something useful like get a real job or work to reform the corrupt regimes of the Arabic Middle east before the oil runs out. Stop blaiming Islamic terrorism on Reagan and the USA. It existed long before Reagan. Assassination, murder, conquest and slavery are traditions -'monumental crimes" we might say- well-known to Islam and the Arabic world. People in glass houses should not through stones.

The real question is when are the Arab nations going to get their own houses in order?

If we think things are bad now when the Arabs are swimming in oil what happens when the gushers go dry? Answer that.

Wow, what a comment! But it was a good one.

Anyway, I was just going to say that I sure would like to see Mahmood's source for his paraphrasing of Condi's comment about forgeting the past. I am sure there is more to it and it puts it in much better context than he is willing to credit her for.

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