This Gun for Hire (1942) dir. Frank Tuttle
Mur murs | Agnès Varda | 1981
La Bruja de Cempoala. A painting of a Mexican witch. Her dress is embroidered with images of Mexican nature spirits. Her rebozo, or shawl, is embroidered with the Spirit of the Wind, who fills it with air and allows her to fly. Around her are her naguales, her spirit animals, who are her own soul. They take the form of alibrijes as she flies through the air.
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Trump was painfully “on brand” during the total eclipse…
“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history,” Toland wrote in his book, Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography. “He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”
Now, of course, it is not in the best national interest of the U.S. to recognize such a realization as presented by Toland. As I’ve said time and again, you cannot be the greatest nation in the world if you’re guilty of genocide – and especially if your country’s policies were the inspiration that engineered one of the world’s most devastating genocides.
And, of course, the evidence is readily available to those who’d seek it that European settlers (i.e. invaders who would later divorce themselves from their motherland, renaming each other “Americans”) did, in fact, set into motion a detailed template – justifications (Divine Right), policies (Indian Removal), procedures (Wounded Knee) – for Hitler to follow.
Indeed, people are wont to argue that plague and disease killed Native Americans in great numbers, which is true – Native Americans did die in mass numbers as a result of European pestilences and our biological inability to fight off these foreign microbes. But that argument inherently ignores the well-documented extermination policies set forth by the United States.
In fact, President Thomas Jefferson himself famously said (well, famous throughout Native America) that the “(American Indian has) justified (their own) extermination.” And it was George Washingtonwho thought the only way to kill Native Americans was to rage war on their crops.
Hey there!
Lately I have realized I really want to read more content in Spanish. So, to all my fellow Tumblr users: are you also an English/Spanish speaker? What blogs and Tumblr users do you recommend I could follow so I can read more content in our first imposed/imperial language? ¡Grácias adelantadas!