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cbabe
(4,903 posts)UpInArms
(52,653 posts)(Thanks to my great sleuthing daughter)
Phoenix61
(18,293 posts)Biophilic
(5,549 posts)Back in the early 1600s my ancestor, the baron, told his 4 younger brothers, 'You're gone! I've bought 4 spots on this boat to the New World and you will be on it when it sails. And, furthermore, do not try to come back.' The four brothers did as they were told, the alternative wasn't pretty. They and their descendants actually did pretty well. Because, well, the alternative in the New World wasn't pretty either. No, England didn't send it's best. They sent the ones they didn't want.
Austrailia got the criminals and we got the religious fanatics. I think the Aussies got the better deal.
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,181 posts)So true, JPK.
ChazInAz
(2,886 posts)Biophilic
(5,549 posts)Preserve me from religious anyones. I know there are a few good ones out there, but the crazy ones have done so much destruction.
delisen
(6,943 posts)rurallib
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rurallib
(63,648 posts)mwmisses4289
(942 posts)The Spaniards started coming in the early 1500's and had taken over much of what is now the south and southwest with thriving colonies by the time the english began to get their foot on this continent. The english had two failed colonies before the pilgrims landed here, and that colony also came close to failure, if it hadn't been for some indigenous people helping them out.
Devilsun
(303 posts)NJCher
(39,867 posts)he's such an effective speaker.
Cirsium
(2,359 posts)Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1500 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country.
Wise has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, media, law enforcement, military, and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racial inequity in their institutions, and has provided anti-racism training to educators and administrators nationwide and internationally, in Canada and Bermuda.
Wise is the author of nine books, including his latest, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Books). Other books include Under the Affluence, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority and Colorblind (all from City Lights Books); his highly-acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, (recently updated and re-released by Soft Skull Press); Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male; and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.
Named one of 25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World, by Utne Reader, Wise has contributed chapters or essays to over 25 additional books and his writings are taught in colleges and universities across the nation. His essays have appeared on Alternet, Salon, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, The Root, Black Commentator, BK Nation and Z Magazine among other popular, professional and scholarly journals.
https://www.speakoutnow.org/speakers/tim-wise
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,181 posts)I had no idea!