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...citizens carried signs stating, "Haiti Deserves Democracy" and "We Are All God's Children," and bore photos of deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. They spoke earnestly to the councillors about the importance of standing behind international justice and democracy, and joined together in a chorus of "Hallelujah," a popular Haitian rallying song...
...Columbus honored in Chicago bore little resemblance to the medieval wizard of Spain's inquisitorial empire. That ancient mariner was now conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King James Bible to the Philippines, and President McKinley said he would make the island inhabitants good Christians. For the Chicago fair, sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of American icons like the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, fashioned a 14-ft. statue of Columbus driving an imperial chariot...
...Americas is being assessed with increased historical sophistication. Two worlds collided nearly 500 years ago, and none of the fallout from that impact now seems as simple as it was once portrayed. Textbooks on American history once began with Columbus' arrival, as if nothing that had happened before bore mentioning. Those careful enough to note that the explorer found people already living where he touched down did not go on to say very much about them...
What sparked my curiosity was that the album cover bore the logo of the Citizens' Councils, one of the most notorious groups in the struggle against Black civil rights: crossed American and Confederate flags, with the motto "States' Rights--Racial Integrity." I brought the album home and sat down to listen...
...TIME we're supposed to be form lifelong friendships. We're supposed to hang out in big, chummy groups where everybody has a nickname. We're supposed to have a whole bunch of cool college stories with which to bore our children, the way our parents bored...