Kamala Harris Laments America’s ‘Shameful Past’ and ‘Devastation’ Wrought by European Settlers

[mystery-ak]

Kamala Harris Laments America’s ‘Shameful Past’ and ‘Devastation’ Wrought by European Settlers

Simon Kent 13 Oct 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday deplored the European explorers who first landed in North America, using a virtual address at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention to claim President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will do much to ameliorate the damage she attributes to mass migration.

“Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas,” said Harris told the gathering held the day after Columbus Day. “But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.

“Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease,” she continued. “We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.”

President Biden’s multi-billion-dollar Build Back Better agenda will have “a significant impact on Indian Country” Harris went on to claim without offering specific evidence.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/13/kamala-harris-laments-americas-shameful-past-and-devastation-wrought-by-european-settlers/

[skeeter]

Destroying the influence of western civilization and replacing it's characteristics with third world style tribalism is the end game.

Sad to see so many people blessed to have been born here have no problem with that.

[sneakypete]

Yeah,we should have been more like the Africans and the Asians when they took possession of new lands,huh?

[mystery-ak]

VP Harris attacks European explorers for ushering in ‘wave of devastation…disease’ on Native Americans
October 13, 2021 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Vice President Kamala Harris disparaged European explorers who discovered the Americas during a speech she gave on Tuesday at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention, claiming they were guilty of horrific crimes against Native Americans.

“Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas,” proclaimed Harris in Portland, Oregon. “But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story.”

“Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease,” she stated, accusing explorers of atrocities. “We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.”

Then she tried to sell President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda to Native Americans, telling them it will have “a significant impact on Indian Country.”

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/10/13/vp-harris-attacks-european-explorers-for-ushering-in-wave-of-devastation-disease-on-native-americans-1147829/

[Kamaji]

If she wants to be ashamed of it, that's her personal prerogative.  She has no right to impose her subjective personal feelings on everyone else.

The simple fact of the matter is, both the Europeans and the Natives acted like human beings - some were good, some were bad, and some were downright evil - on both sides.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Once again, heterosexual Christian males of Western European descent are villified.

But, Native Americans aren't so innocent either.  Their arrival in the Americas brought about the extinction of serveral species of animals.  Their environmental attrocities should not be forgotten.

The extinction of the Woolly Mammoth in North America is one genocide that can't be blamed on heterosexual Christian males of Western European descent.

Have the woke forgotten that Native Americans were also conquerors?

HUMANS HUNTED MAMMALS TO EXTINCTION IN NORTH AMERICA
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2001/011478/humans-hunted-mammals-extinction-north-america

[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

You wrote “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas,” said Harris told the gathering held the day after Columbus Day. “But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story."

“Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease,” she continued. “We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.”
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Well, I was born in 1933, one year before "the US recognized the voyage of the European explorers...

Then, Kamala dumped on the Europeans who came here.  Those were my English ancestors who settled in the area of Tennessee and fought for England in the war.  Then, a bunch of them moved to Arkansas - they were Methodist church preachers and started churches in Arkansas.

You bet we treated Indians poorly, took their land, killed them, moved them to Arkansas and Oklahoma and treated Indians in the west the same way.

Two people can live together okay.  Add a third person and two will gang up against one.  As more Europeans came here, they ganged up on people who looked different than them and the Indians were very different, so they fought.

That is still happening because that is human nature, "keep it for us, keep different people out".

I am not making an evaluation as to who is right, but rather explaining differences in people.

[skeeter]

Yeah,we should have been more like the Africans and the Asians when they took possession of new lands,huh?

According to our history many tribes in the east did their level best to wipe out early European settlements, when they could no longer do it themselves they made alliances with first the French against the English, then with the English against the colonials.

It's not hard to understand why we started viewing them as enemies to be eradicated.

Human history is all about one society supplanting another. It's happening to us right now but Harris undoubtedly feels different about that - in fact she's enabling it.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

In her twisted mind, it would be better to have left the Americas in the hands of savages who also owned slaves and were totalitarians who sacrificed people to unknown gods.

So how much better would this land have been?

[Wingnut]

Like most modern Democrats who have been very successful, Harris is a bitter ingrate who would prefer to bash the history of the United States because it makes them popular with the commie crowd.

[GtHawk]

Says the descendent of slave owners, has she ever apologized for her families shameful past? Probably not since a person sleeping her way up the ladder by definition has no shame or morals.

[Kamaji]

Says the descendent of slave owners, has she ever apologized for her families shameful past? Probably not since a person sleeping her way up the ladder by definition has no shame or morals.

Good point!

[mikezpen]

Makes one pray for Biden's health, doesn't it?