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Well done, you. In Jamaica, Seville Great House records Moorish migrants from Spain predating Columbus. After all where did he get the idea from? This is all a tangle caused by white supremacy rewriting history. anyone have some oral sources of Amerindian history for us to tap into. The chapter from Hues of Blackness on my blog is fiction but set in far-reaching eco historical research. The official view is no Tainos survived. This, however , is not universally accepted in Jamaica.
posted by
RoseyP
on October 13, 2011 at 2:49 AM
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yeah, I hear you, Alf. Did you check the C & P link? It's a cool place.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:04 PM
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Couldn't agree more Blanche...
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 17, 2006 at 4:00 PM
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Alf, I forget every year that Columbus Day is a holiday, so I'm with you
"Discoered America"? What? Was it lost? And he was so lost he thought he'd discovered India! I feel the same about the local area, Cok Inlet, you know what I mean, since you're in Olympia.
Cook Inlet, Strait of San Juan De Fuca, Mount Rainier, what hubris!
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 3:42 PM
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Alf here's the link to the C & P home page, it's our venue
http://www.candpcoffee.com/index.php
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 12:43 PM
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,Dave...
Funny stuff! Thanks for stopping by. I will have to find Pats blog, but I don't klnow where to look.
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 10, 2006 at 9:46 AM
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Thanks Whacky!
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 10, 2006 at 9:45 AM
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PS, I'm with Julia on the herring. I shan't be partaking. Not even with a
herring aid. I am deaf to fish.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 10, 2006 at 6:48 AM
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A Norse, A Norse, my kingdom for A Norse!
You have converted me. I've only known about Columbus Day for a couple of hours, having read about it on Pat's blog, but I shall expunge that knowledge from my mammaries and forever hold to my breast the name Leif Erickson. I have a vague remembrance of him from schooldays actually. He used to sit two rows down from me.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 10, 2006 at 6:46 AM
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Herring? Oh OK.
posted by
Whacky
on October 9, 2006 at 7:03 PM
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Julia...
Look, all I ask is that you try it. If you would just
try it, I know you would like it...it is like candy, no kidding. Would you eat it in a house, would you eat it with a mouse? Would you try it here or there, would you try it anywhere?
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 9, 2006 at 2:19 PM
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Strat....
Hey thanks alot, I appreciate it. I just treated my whole office to pickled herring, baby smoked Oysters and clams, Sardines and crackers in hot sauce and mustard sauce...I think on the way home I'll get some mead.
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 9, 2006 at 2:17 PM
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regardless of what I call this day,
I will not be doing the pickled herring, thanks very much!
posted by
Julia.
on October 9, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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It's kinda funny, though.
If the winners write history, then why do we mention the Spanish that much at all, much less as the discoverers of the country? Actually, as I recall, our country was named for an Italian, Ameriga Vespussi, of whom I can remember nothing.
So sure, Alf. Sing me up; it's far more accurate, and Ericsson was probably far bigger, badder, and braver than Columbus ever could hope to be, so sure, I'll raise a stein -o- mead -- or rather, a Newcastle brown -- to Leif Ericsson, and hope like hell that kids tomorrow don't think he's the inventor of the cellular phone.
posted by
strat
on October 9, 2006 at 12:23 PM
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Talion...
Thanks so much for your input, that is a great example of what I am talking about.
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 9, 2006 at 12:11 PM
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A_Norseman
Only when I went to college did I realize to what extent the "history" I learned in school was sanitized. The most disappointing thing still sticks out in my mind. President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which supposedly freed the slaves, did nothing of the sort. It only applied to the southern states. Not only was it still legal to own slaves in the north, but because the southern states considered themselves parts of a seperate country, the proclamation itself meant nothing unless the north won the war. Even the honors history class I took in high school neglected to mention this tidbit of information.
posted by
Talion
on October 9, 2006 at 12:04 PM
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