Get as angry as you want over sentiments from 150 years ago. You cannot change the past or the sentiments but if you are suggesting removing the works then all the power to you. 🙄 twitter.com/aliwatson117/s
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But, see that’s just what they want. To remove anything from the past they don’t like. See confederate war, Huck Finn, Laura Ingalls Wilder, revisionist history of the USA
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Nothing terrifies me more. If we erase and revise the truth of history just as soon as we acknowledge and reveal it’s underbelly and haul it into the the light We are no better than those who ignored the truth of the horrors as they happened around them.
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MLK was having an affair when he died; Nelson Mandela bombed innocent people and his wife encouraged people being burned alive, which then happened. We better get rid of their place in history too..... 🙄
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Literature is a reflection of history. Erase the literature, erase the past, and you are doomed to repeat it.
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Not remotely what I said and we’re both speaking the same English language. No one is erasing the books. Most def not the sentiment. But updating an award in a more inclusive era is progress. Why celebrate works that are anti-Native?
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These sentiments carried on into the future. It wasn’t 150 years ago that my grandfather was stolen from his family and placed into Indian boarding school in an attempt to strip him of his language, family and culture. My GRANDFATHERS era...
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Before she dares anyone to put themselves in her shoes, maybe she shouldn't put words in your mouth, or anticipate what you might say. You never said the stories "honored" anybody...🙄
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You know you're doing something right when somebody comes after you in the guise of "we" and "us." I'm Cherokee, and I agree with you completely on this issue.
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Native Americans are a great example on the cons of open borders.
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