{"id":990,"date":"2009-10-12T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=990"},"modified":"2009-10-12T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:30:19","slug":"happy-what-should-we-call-it-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/10\/12\/happy-what-should-we-call-it-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy &#8216;What should we call it?&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus discovered America &#8211; tcwmits<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovered<\/strong> America? How can you <strong>discover<\/strong> something that&#8217;s already<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cradleboard.org\/curriculum\/powwow\/lessons\/highsocial\/pre_1492.html\" target=\"_blank\">in use<\/a><\/strong>? See that BMW over there? Let&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cradleboard.org\/curriculum\/powwow\/lessons\/highsocial\/1890.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>discover<\/strong><\/a> it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Gregory\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Gregory<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Permanent Link: What if \u201cColumbus Day\u201d was given the more accurate name \u201cCelebrate Genocide\u00a0Day\u201d?\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/professorwhatif.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/13\/what-if-%e2%80%9ccolumbus-day%e2%80%9d-was-given-the-more-accurate-name-%e2%80%9ccelebrate-genocide-day%e2%80%9d\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link: What if \u201cColumbus Day\u201d was given the more accurate name \u201cCelebrate Genocide\u00a0Day\u201d?\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/professorwhatif.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/13\/what-if-%e2%80%9ccolumbus-day%e2%80%9d-was-given-the-more-accurate-name-%e2%80%9ccelebrate-genocide-day%e2%80%9d\/\">What if \u201cColumbus Day\u201d was given the more accurate name \u201cCelebrate Genocide\u00a0Day\u201d?<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;-The <strong>Professor who dares to ask what if<\/strong><sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>PWDAWI, makes several citations to Howard Zinn&#8217;s A People&#8217;s History of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/10\/12\/democracy_now_special_an_hour_of\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Now! today [after headlines]<\/a> {large raster <a href=\"http:\/\/ewheel.democracynow.org\/dn2009-1012.mp4.torrent\" target=\"_blank\">BitTorrent downloa<\/a>d} is an interview with  Canadian Cree singer\/songwriter Buffy St-Marie. Included is a performance of &#8216;Universal Soldier&#8217;. In Buffy&#8217;s view, for a Native American to &#8216;make it&#8217; requires a lucky accident. She spends her money on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cradleboard.org\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">education from the Native American point of view<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>The Common White Man In The Street.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>I don&#8217;t know where she teaches. I would say <strong>definitely not Harvard<\/strong>, but that would be snarky. I&#8217;ll just say <strong>definitely not in Harvard economics or government<\/strong>. Jack Womack has been emeritized by Harvard history, but there are still some folks around who question.<br \/>\nThat said, I still reserve the right to question whether Harvard&#8217;s pair of world historical jacks question enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus discovered America &#8211; tcwmits1 Discovered America? How can you discover something that&#8217;s already in use? See that BMW over there? Let&#8217;s discover it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;-Dick Gregory What if \u201cColumbus Day\u201d was given the more accurate name \u201cCelebrate Genocide\u00a0Day\u201d? &#8212;-The Professor who dares to ask what if2 PWDAWI, makes several citations to Howard Zinn&#8217;s A People&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2351,776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-again-to-whom","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}