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Hi Folks:

 

Please read the following before viewing the attached pictures we took at Virginia Beach, Virginia on May 15, 2014. This statement made by Dalhousie University professor Susan Sherwin, about the underlying cause of racism, is the best description I’ve ever read. It puts into words why it is so hard to get society to recognize, and accept that the systemic racism that victimizes First Nations Peoples exists: “...the greatest danger of oppression lies where bias is so pervasive as to be invisible...”

 

On Monday many places in the Americas will be celebrating Columbus day, a day set aside to honor him for the “discoveries” he never made (in the United States of America it’s a national holiday.)

 

His so-called “discovery” should not live on and he should not be honored because Columbus did not discover anyplace - you cannot discover what has already been discovered. Just because the people who did the original discovering were a people of color does not change the fact that they discovered the Americas first! But White supremacist racism lives on” and is no better highlighted than by the erecting of a statue honoring Columbus in Puerto Rico, a savage White man with bloody hands. It lives on because White supremacist mentality reduces people of color to invisibility and thus they cannot be accredited for anything. His legacy for the Americas was death and destruction for the Indigenous Peoples of the two Continents and slavery for Africans!

 

From Tony Castanha, re. the subject of Papal Bull burning, October 9, 2014, Puerto Rico, : “The (Papal Bull Burning) here will be held on Sunday October 12 at 4pm in the town of Arecibo at La Posa del Ovispo. This is near where officials are actually erecting a huge Columbus statue along the lines of the "Statue of Liberty." 'Ae, you heard me right... in the Year 2014 they are erecting a huge statue of the Hitler of the Caribbean.”