#307 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday March 24)
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Good morning, VIRTUE SIGNALING INDIAN LANDS Many of us have now been to meetings of nonprofits, PTAs, governmental entities and other well-meaning organizations that begin with an acknowledgement that the meeting is being conducted on the sacred lands of indigenous people. The intent is admirable. The practice is, I believe, more political theatre than actually beneficial. We learn nothing of these cultures in these brief nods to the treatment of Native Americans, plus I’m not even sure the recitation is based in any sort of logic. After all, there were some 300,000 Native Americans in Southern California when the Spaniards came. I doubt they occupied each and every acre upon which these organizations now stand. Nor do I think did their culture acknowledge “ownership” of lands, particularly those they did not inhabit or use.
#307 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday March 24)
#307 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday…
#307 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday March 24)
Good morning, VIRTUE SIGNALING INDIAN LANDS Many of us have now been to meetings of nonprofits, PTAs, governmental entities and other well-meaning organizations that begin with an acknowledgement that the meeting is being conducted on the sacred lands of indigenous people. The intent is admirable. The practice is, I believe, more political theatre than actually beneficial. We learn nothing of these cultures in these brief nods to the treatment of Native Americans, plus I’m not even sure the recitation is based in any sort of logic. After all, there were some 300,000 Native Americans in Southern California when the Spaniards came. I doubt they occupied each and every acre upon which these organizations now stand. Nor do I think did their culture acknowledge “ownership” of lands, particularly those they did not inhabit or use.