Nick Reed 10.12.26 - The History of Columbus Day

All right, Columbus Day.

Uh, Joe Biden at one point declaring it Indigenous People Day, as do a number of universities across the, the country.

And it could not be a more perfect signal as to how anti-intellectual our university systems and, and public school systems have become in this country.

Because the, the reason for the renaming or recognition of Columbus Day as instead being Indigenous People Day is supposed to be a jab at the fact that Christopher Columbus was a flawed human being, particularly when it came to human rights.

And Christopher Columbus, um, was, was, uh, uh, you know, friendly with slavery and was cruel to people and all of the standard stereotypes of, uh, the white person from days of old.

The, the problem, of course, is that so-called Indigenous people, some of the tribes Christopher Columbus, even the worst accusations that may be untrue against him pale in comparison to what many of the tribes, uh, br- you know, I mean, wore on their sleeve in terms of their own behavior for the purposes of terrifying.

See, all of this is a farce.

This isn't to say that, you know, I mean, we, we don't want to view the so-called indigenous person the way that the left tells us white people have to be viewed.

See, white people's ancestors did bad things, and because of that, white people today are privileged, and that means that we should not, um, you know, view white people as being equal.

You can't be racist against white people because they just historically are bad.

That's, that's the way that the left treats categories of people when it is convenient for them.

Now, of course, indigenous people, they, they bury that history.

They hide that history, though it should not be, because it doesn't mean that the descendants of those indigenous people are bad people or that they owe anybody anything whatsoever.

Just some tidbits of information I grabbed from the Oklahoma Historical Society on the issue of slavery.

In the 1830s, African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma.

By the late 18th century, when more than one half million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five Southern Indian societies of that region, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, had come to include both enslaved Blacks and small numbers of free African Americans.

A few hundred Black slaves had run away from their white masters, seeking refuge with the Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee settlements, which received them as free people.

While some Indian communities incorporated Black individuals as free people, American Indians in each of the nations, except the Seminole, began to purchase African Americans as slaves.

Now, you'll notice there's talk here about how the different tribes treated Black people in a different way.

Some as free, some as property.

I note this because some might consider the left's characterizing, uh, of all of these separate tribes as essentially one, you know, indigenous people as being kind of racist.

Sort of like not being, you know, "Oh, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Korean, oh, they all look alike," right? I mean, that- that's the way that the left treats the, the, all of the different tribes historically and culturally in this country.

"Oh, they're all just one, i- indigenous people, Native Americans.

All of them are the same." A number of Indian farmers had large tracts of land under cultivation and used slaves for labor to produce cotton and surplus crops for sale and profit.

Most Indian slave owners practiced subs- uh, subsistence agriculture, and both slaves and masters would labor in the fields.

All right, Columbus Day.

Uh, Joe Biden at one point declaring it Indigenous People Day, as do a number of universities across the, the country.

And it could not be a more perfect signal as to how anti-intellectual our university systems and, and public school systems have become in this country.

Because the, the reason for the renaming or recognition of Columbus Day as instead being Indigenous People Day is supposed to be a jab at the fact that Christopher Columbus was a flawed human being, particularly when it came to human rights.

And Christopher Columbus, um, was, was, uh, uh, you know, friendly with slavery and was cruel to people and all of the standard stereotypes of, uh, the white person from days of old.

The, the problem, of course, is that so-called Indigenous people, some of the tribes Christopher Columbus, even the worst accusations that may be untrue against him pale in comparison to what many of the tribes, uh, br- you know, I mean, wore on their sleeve in terms of their own behavior for the purposes of terrifying.

See, all of this is a farce.

This isn't to say that, you know, I mean, we, we don't want to view the so-called indigenous person the way that the left tells us white people have to be viewed.

See, white people's ancestors did bad things, and because of that, white people today are privileged, and that means that we should not, um, you know, view white people as being equal.

You can't be racist against white people because they just historically are bad.

That's, that's the way that the left treats categories of people when it is convenient for them.

Now, of course, indigenous people, they, they bury that history.

They hide that history, though it should not be, because it doesn't mean that the descendants of those indigenous people are bad people or that they owe anybody anything whatsoever.

Just some tidbits of information I grabbed from the Oklahoma Historical Society on the issue of slavery.

In the 1830s, African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma.

By the late 18th century, when more than one half million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five Southern Indian societies of that region, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, had come to include both enslaved Blacks and small numbers of free African Americans.

A few hundred Black slaves had run away from their white masters, seeking refuge with the Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee settlements, which received them as free people.

While some Indian communities incorporated Black individuals as free people, American Indians in each of the nations, except the Seminole, began to purchase African Americans as slaves.

Now, you'll notice there's talk here about how the different tribes treated Black people in a different way.

Some as free, some as property.

I note this because some might consider the left's characterizing, uh, of all of these separate tribes as essentially one, you know, indigenous people as being kind of racist.

Sort of like not being, you know, "Oh, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Korean, oh, they all look alike," right? I mean, that- that's the way that the left treats the, the, all of the different tribes historically and culturally in this country.

"Oh, they're all just one, i- indigenous people, Native Americans.

All of them are the same." A number of Indian farmers had large tracts of land under cultivation and used slaves for labor to produce cotton and surplus crops for sale and profit.

Most Indian slave owners practiced subs- uh, subsistence agriculture, and both slaves and masters would labor in the fields.