In college , my ancestral roots of the Tapakeg people surfaced.Chief Chuck needs to grow a pair. I’m a Renegade, so where do I file a cordial complaint requesting people to honor me by studying me and not just plaster my name on the side of a Jeep?
That's very keen insight. Good post.I’m not sure that the point of these name-change pressure campaigns is the name change itself. It seems rather that the goal is to reinforce the implicit premise that sensitivity to feelings is the summum bonum and keep that tool sharp when it’s desired in other applications. Allegations of hurt feelings have more than once been used to erode freedoms “guaranteed” in the Bill of Rights.
I love the way we went after Saddam Hussein when he attacked Kuwait....you can't kill a country's inhabitants and plunder it's natural resources man..... We know that's wrong because that's how we got started.I completely agree that cancel culture is getting out of hand, but for some reason this just doesn't seem that way. Plus, I dunno, Native Americans have been shit on for a long time.
Plus the chief sounded too polite to be triggered
Thanks.That's very keen insight. Good post.
That is absolutely 100% the truth.People looking for offense will find it.
Exactly.... I mean where does this stop. . At some point we've got to come to terms with what was done and more importantly the fact that it isn't still done today, and move on. We can't undo it and to erase it is to lie to ourselves and our children and their children.In effect you are cancelling any reference to native Americans. We can’t change the way they were / are treated. So we need to cancel any acknowledgment of them even if it was done in reverence.
Land O Lakes...they took the Indian off but kept the land.
Sad state of affairs indeed.
You make some great points. There is good and bad in every individual and group. To erase the good because of the bad would require the cancelling of everyone everywhere from all time...if the principle were applied evenly (which it isn't). Plank in your eye and throw the first stone and so on.... At some point we've got to come to terms with what was done and more importantly the fact that it isn't still done today, and move on. We can't undo it and to erase it is to lie to ourselves and our children and their children.
I also realize we don't want to glorify the unrighteousness of some of the things that happened...
Horrible things happen in the name of progress. But we've got to have balance as a society...
I don't know how I would feel if I were a native American.... Hopefully proud in some ways and probably hurt in others.
But this is my point... We don't want to lose who we are.
Someone once said history is a set of well recorded lies...I think so much gets lost, just like the American flag part...good post.You make some great points. There is good and bad in every individual and group. To erase the good because of the bad would require the cancelling of everyone everywhere from all time...if the principle were applied evenly (which it isn't). Plank in your eye and throw the first stone and so on.
I will say that the debate over names and flags reveals something deeper. I'm not a southerner and have no dog in the Confederate flag fight, but the vast majority of slavery in America's history did NOT happen under that flag. It happened under the American flag until states started seceding. So perhaps we should be concerned about flying the American flag at all. Which is exactly what many on the left are now arguing, having won the battle over the Conferderate flag. But you may say, The American flag is different; it stands for lots of other things, like freedom and democracy and the military... Ok fine. But that is exactly my point. The issue really at stake is "who decides?" Who gets to decide what any person or symbol really means? Colin K. says the American flag stands for racism and anti-black police brutality. Others say otherwise. Does he get to decide what that symbol means? How about the Christian cross? The Star of David? the Muslim Crescent?
This is where a little thing called Truth comes in. People and cultures had both good and bad. Same today. Will be the same forever. Insisting on gross simplifications reducing human truths to binary good/bad is unjust, inaccurate, and guaranteed to foment conflict. But it's good for creating narratives and advancing agendas.
I also realize we don't want to glorify the unrighteousness of some of the things that happened. I heard a female comedian who was black make the statement that she was in no way proud of the.... insert expletive here ... That happened under the Confederate flag. That hit home as a proud southerner who has seen that flag every day and never was bothered by it ... I realized she was right... that flag is not a symbol of anything good. and if there was any good that happened under it the bad that happened under it was enough to overshadow it all.
You can go to a plantation in Charleston, South Carolina and see the fingerprints of slave children in the bricks made on the property... That is forced child labor.
Horrible things happen in the name of progress. But we've got to have balance as a society... We should be able to look at something that's significant and say yes it's time that we took that down off the state capitol....
Also if you want to know the vehicle that actually saved the Jeep name.... the most affordable SUV that ever came on the market and was a massive hit... It was the Jeep Cherokee. There were never going to be enough YJ Wranglers sold in those days to sustain a failing brand. Financially it was the Cherokee and Lee Iococca that did it....little did they know when they took the four-door concept of that and blended it with the convertible concept of the Wrangler they would blow the top off the industry.. after they figured out how to make one drive at 65+ mph down the highway and stay in one lane and be able to hear yourself think with the coil spring suspension 97-2006 TJ/LJ Wranglers we love.
Buddy I'm not suffering from anything ... I hate that there is so much sin and wrong in the world but it's always been that way and it always will be.Sounds like you are suffering from a severe case of White guilt.
Yes, and you can go to Wal-Mart and purchase goods that were manufactured overseas by companies that still practice forced child labor today.
Are you referring to the Confederate flag that was removed from the state capital in South Carolina in 2000?
The Confederate flag was originally removed as part of a bi-partisan deal that was struck in 2000. The compromise was the flag would be removed from the dome and a smaller version would be placed on a Confederate War memorial that was located on the grounds. In exchange, the flag and all Confederate monuments would be protected forever. In addition, an African-American memorial was also constructed on the statehouse grounds. And Martin Luther King Jr. Day was certified as a holiday.
But that didn't last for very long. The NAACP and opponents of the flag were still not satisfied, and so they boycotted the state until it was finally completely removed in 2015. Of course, the African-American monument stills stands, and King Day is still recognized.
Does that sound fair to you?
I can agree with this.