Thread: Genocide Memorial on Columbus Day

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Genocide Memorial on Columbus Day
by Manuel A., Mexica Movement Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006 at 1:49 AM
mexicamovement@sbcglobal.net

East Los Angeles College hosted a solemn genocide memorial on Columbus Day, marking the day in which Europeans initiated the holocaust of 70 to 100 million Indigenous People.

DOES THIS COLLEGE RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS???



LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday, October 12, East Los Angeles College hosted a public memorial dedicated to the memory of the 70 to 100 million indigenous people who were killed by European acts of genocide. The event was organized by the Anahuac Studies Club of ELAC and the Mexica Movement, an indigenous education organization. The memorial was held on Columbus Day, a date marking the beginning of the European presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the starting point for what professor David Stannard calls "the greatest act of genocide in the history of humanity."
(Stannard is the author of "American Holocaust", published through Oxford University Press.)

Throughout the day and night, hundreds of students had the opportunity to learn startling details about the genocidal actions of Christopher Columbus, Spanish Conquistadors, and even the American government. Candles were lit in the formation of the date "1492": a solemn reminder to the year when the lives of indigenous peoples were swept into a nightmare of murder, land theft, rape, and smallpox biological warfare.

The entire memorial was cordoned off with crime scene tape, making the point that this event was to be witnessed in the context of a massive homocide. Like tombstones in a cemetery, placards lined the ELAC mall showing Spanish-drawn illustrations of murder and torture against indigenous peoples during the 15th and 16th centuries. Across the sidwalk lay the chalk outlines of bodies, just as a true homicide scene would look. And behind it all were bold signs declaring Christopher Columbus to be a mass murderer as well as a message of unity between Mexicans, Central Americans, and Native Americans -- all victims of the same European invasions and genocide.

Signs were splattered with simulated blood, and a dramatic "History of Genocide" chart that compared the staggering Indigenous Holocaust to other acts of genocide, such as the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. On site were representatives who talked with students and answered their questions on this most massive of genocides.

The genocide memorial touched many people and outraged others.
" I didn't know all this happened," said one student in disbelief.

"I didn't know they killed that many people."

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http://www.mexica-movement.org/NOTEFOREUROPEANS.htm

We welcome you as fellow human beings

to the knowledge

that we are presenting to our people

on this web site.

The whole world needs to know of the crimes of the Europeans

that were,

and are being,

committed against us.

In the last 500 years of our enslavement to Europeans

we have been forced

to stay in ignorance of our full value as human beings.

We have been forced

to stay in ignorance of the glory of our civilizations.

We have been forced

to stay in poverty

because we have been deprived of the ownership

of the wealth of our continent.

This enforced ignorance has made our people

a self-hating people, a people who are self-hating and who yet know nothing

of who they really are,

of the true and full value and greatness of our civilizations,

and the contributions

that we have made to the overall intellectual enrichment of the world.

This self-hate has produced an insane and obsessive love of Europeans

by our people.

This self-hate has our people

dying in the gang culture that kills us body and mind,

that kills our dignity and honor,

that kills the intellectual potential of our people.

This self-hate has our people

dying in assimilation to white culture and white dna,

keeping us deprived of our beautiful past

and deprived of an independent future

----a future that is independent from Europeans,

a future where Europeans don't control our lives

or the wealth of our continent.

You need to know that you, Europeans,

are collectively profiting as a race from the theft of our continent.

You are profiting from the Genocide of our people.

You are profiting from your theft, occupation, presence, and the exploitation

of our continent.

Your mere presence on our continent

has deprived us of our full potential as human beings

for the last 500 years.
This applies to the bad and the good Europeans,
to the racists and the non-racists.



Solution can be found to all of the crimes of the Europeans

---our holocaust, our poverty, our rape, our cultural castration,

and our enslavement to European interests---

if truth is found, if justice is found,

if full and complete reconstruction of our nation is put into motion,

if we are given back ALL of what has been stolen from us.

But if we the Nican Tlaca Mexica Anahuac nation

stay in ignorance and in poverty,

it means that Europeans can stay wealthy and in possession

of all of what they have stolen from us.

On the other hand, if we gain knowledge of the pre-1492 history of our people,

that history that makes up 99% of our history,

and the full knowledge of the crimes of the Europeans

over the last 500 years,

Europeans will be hopefully shamed

and forced to acknowledge

that they are collectively thieves of our continent,

Genocidal murderers,

and that they are in a criminal occupation, possession ,

and exploitation

of our continent and all of its wealth.

From this knowledge, justice should move

to full reparations for our people.

Moral and ethical Europeans themselves

can add more

to bringing about this awareness of the crimes

of the last 500 years than we can,

because they have the resources and the social acceptance

that are necessary to get this knowledge out

to their people, to our people, and to the rest of the world.

If you as a human being

believe in truth, in justice, in morality, in ethics,

and in what is right,

then you have an obligation to bring all of this knowledge

to the light of day

into books,

into the classroom,

into the television sets,

into the general awareness of all human beings on this planet.

PLEASE READ OUR WEBSITE

WITH FAIRNESS,

EMPATHY,

AND A CLEAR SENSE OF WHAT IS RIGHT
ABOUT OUR COMPLETE LIBERATION FROM EUROPEANS

AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH OCCUPATION AND EXPLOITATION

OF OUR CONTINENT AND OUR PEOPLE.

This is not just about something in the past, to be forgotten.

This is something that we the Nican Tlaca Mexica Anahuac Nation

live and suffer everyday

and that you, Europeans, enjoy and profit from everyday.

Europeans have justified Jews taking back their ancestral land
in Palestine with violence,
a land that they had left or been forced out of over 2,000 years ago,
based on the fact that it is their homeland.

Following that same European logic for a moment,
it should also be logical that all we, Nican Tlaca,
should also take our land back, our continent,
and be free from 500 years of European control,
and that Europeans should voluntarily and willingly
want to go home to their homeland, Europe,
so that we can be completely free from Europeans.
And if we decide that Europeans can stay,
let us make that decision.

It has only been 500 years
since we lost control of our continent to Spaniard Europeans.
Only 400 years since the English Europeans invaded.
Only 150 years since English American Europeans invaded
into what is called Mexico to steal half of its land.
You can't have rules that are good for whites (and Jews)
and yet deny us the same rules, the same logic, the same justice,
and expect us to shut up and to live in injustice.

This whole continent is our homeland.
We are not bound by the colonial illegal boundaries
of the Europeans ( Spaniards, French, English, or their colonial nations).


We have no obligation to be foreigners in our own land, on our own continent.
We have an obligation to struggle to be free and independent from Europeans.

You as ethical and moral human beings have an obligation,
in the tradition of John Brown the abolitionist,
to end this colonialism, this theft, this monstrous injustice.

This colonialism on our continent (what you call "North America")
must end,
as was done in Algeria, in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia),
and as needs to be done in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

We cannot be wished away, nor forever be ignored
because sooner more than later
our people will demand justice and liberation.

We as human beings in the Mexica Movement
will not allow ourselves,
nor will we allow our people,
to live as slaves
in this European-made hell
that Europeans have made out of our continent;

nor will we allow our people to be divided
by European colonialism,
a colonialism of racism, poverty and oppression,
and death, that controls our lives
in Canada, "the U.S.", Mexico, "Central America",
and the rest of this "Western Hemisphere.

Europeans have a homeland: EUROPE.
We are only asking unwelcomed guests (racists) to leave our home.
These racist Europeans have a home to go to.
The non-racists can be part of a transition to our full independence,
it's not as if Europeans are being asked to go into the Atlantic Ocean.
They have a beautiful home called Europe.

The non-European world does not owe Europeans a living
from our lands, our continents, or our labor.
The world is not obligated to serve European interests
in the way that you are not obligated to keep a cancer in your body
or in the way that you do not allow parasites to feed off of your body.
A cancer must be removed
and parasites must also be removed,
for the sake of your life as a healthy human being.

The non-European world is not obligated
to allow the criminal actions of Europeans to continue.

We Nican Tlaca of all of Cemanahuac ("Western Hemisphere")
have no obligation to be foreigners
on our own land, on our own continent
---and poor because we have been robbed
of the natural resource wealth of our continent---
just because Europeans have "declared" borders
on our continent
---telling us where we can go and where we cannot go.

The only obligation that we have
is the obligation to struggle to be free and independent
from Europeans.

You as ethical and moral human beings have an obligation,
in the tradition of John Brown the abolitionist,
to end this colonialism, this theft, this monstrous injustice.

JUSTICE IS FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS!
WE ARE THE HUMAN BEINGS WHO OWN THIS CONTINENT,
AND WE ARE DECLARING OUR DESIRE TO BE FREE FROM EUROPEANS!

If these jokers owned this continent, it would be just an extension of the scum bags who are ruling in central america and mexico.

These ingrates don't even realize the fact that if this was not America, they wouldn't be allowed to bitch about anything!!!

You know, do they really only want the land, forrests, streams &
rocky raccoon? If we took all the bad stuff the europeans
have made: democraacy, laws, schools, hospitals, roads, houses....
would they really want to stay? Wouldn't it just be an extension of their
broken systems back home? If they didn't experience European style
oppression back in Mexico, why would they come here. It's like talking
to children. No, take that back. My kids are more rational than this!

They don't seem to notice the irony of saying, "Justice is for all people" and then telling people of European ancestry that they need to leave the country! And tell me again who is being "divisive."

My question would be how prevalent is this thinking and what is being done, if anything, to refute it. Or is this just going unchallenged? If something is repeated often enough, it becomes conventional wisdom.

We have been forced to stay in ignorance

Well, I grant you one thing......you are ignorant, but how you got forced into it, is quite a head-scratcher!

All I can say is Happy Belated Birthday Mr Columbus! I am so glad you made the trip!

MYTH: Columbus set foot on North American soil at some point now a part of mainland United States.

FACT: Columbus never saw North America. His first landfall was in the Bahamas, probably the current San Salvador (Watlings Island), although even this is disputed (Samana Cay, an island 65 miles south of San Salvador is a strong contender). There are proponents for seven other possible island landing sites. The only current U.S. territories either sighted or visited by Columbus are the U.S. Virgin Islands, which Columbus named on his second voyage, and Puerto Rico. While in anchor of St. Croix (USVI) on November 14, 1493, some of Columbus' crew experienced the first hostile encounter with the Indians. Five days later he landed at San Juan Bautista, now Puerto Rico. Later he would visit the northeastern tip of South America and the eastern coast of Central America, but never mainland U.S.A. The fact is that Columbus never admitted that he had discovered a new continent.

Source: International Columbian Quincentenary Alliance

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Candles were lit in the formation of the date "1492": a solemn reminder to the year when the lives of indigenous peoples were swept into a nightmare of murder, land theft, rape, and smallpox biological warfare.

Get over it people..............darn............this is the year 2006..........1492 was way the heck before any of our times.
Talk about racist!!!!!!!
Get a life people.

And behind it all were bold signs declaring Christopher Columbus to be a mass murderer

Quite a feat for a man who never set foot in the country. These people are really ignorant of history or they are deliberately revising it for their own agenda. If you look at their blogs, there is hardly any activity at all. I think most of them could care less, and treat this as just another reason to raise hell, to soothe their deep paranoia. I wonder how they would feel if people starting holding signs with Aztecs offering human sacrifice or cannablism. Talk about a bunch of lunatic crazies.

These people are really ignorant of history or they are deliberately revising it for their own agenda.

Gofer,
Boy that's no doubt. I've seen pictures of protestors carrying signs that say "Remember the war of 1846-1848?"

They are touting it like THEY won the war. If my history serves correct, America kicked their ass. Not the other way around.

What also gets me is this "memorial" states that Europeans killed millions. Well how many of their own people were sacrificed during the Aztec and Mayan eras with their heathen rituals before the Spansih arrived? How many died in the wars with Montezuma?
Obviously they think they didn't do anything wrong.