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Title: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 01, 2020, 02:04:15 am
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Many places today bear names resultant from colonialism, which should be changed in order to reflect decolonization. The hubris of the colonialists was such that they did not even bother to use the pre-existing namesof the lands they colonized, but treated these lands as nothing but free real estate:

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Thisis not an exaggeration; for example, the name "Rhodesia" (after Cecil Rhodes) is literally no different than Donald Trump naming golf courses etc. after himself. Zambia set a good example by tossing out the name "Northern Rhodesia" in 1964; we hope many more follow suit in future.

A few of the more obvious ones:

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The name of the Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas [pɪlɪˈpinɐs]; Spanish: Filipinas) is a truncated form of Philippine Islands, derived from the King Philip II of Spain in the 16th century.
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Due to the colonial origin and direct meaning of the country's current name, proposals for name change have surfaced since the late 19th century up to present time. Among the proposed names that have surfaced include Sovereign Tagalog Nation (Haring Bayang Katagalugan)[6][7], Katipunan (Assembly/Gathering)[8], Kapatiran (Brotherhood)[8], Luzviminda (Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao)[9], Luzvimindas (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and eastern Sabah)[9], Mahárlika (Nobility)[8], Rizalia[8], Rizaline Republic (República Rizalina)[10], and Dayaw Republic (Repúblikang Dayaw).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Philippines

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Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and named it Staten Land "in honour of the States General" (Dutch parliament). He wrote, "itis possible that this land joins to the Staten Land but it is uncertain",[10] referring to a landmass of the same name at the southerntip of South America, discovered by Jacob Le Maire in 1616.[11][12] In 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland.[13][14] British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand.[15]

Aotearoa (pronounced /ˌaʊtɛəˈroʊ.ə/; often translated as "land of the long whitecloud")[16] is the current Māori name for New Zealand.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology

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The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné, which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited bythe Guineus, a generic term used by the Portuguese to refer to the 'black' African peoples living south of the Senegal River (in contrast to the 'tawny' Sanhaja Berbers, north of it, whom they called Azenegues). The term "Guinea" is extensively used in the 1453 chronicle of Gomes Eanes de Zurara.[1] King John II of Portugal took up the title of Senhor da Guiné (Lord of Guinea) from 1483.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology (this also applies to Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau)

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When the Portuguese and Spanish explorers arrived in the island via the Spice Islands, they also referred to the island as Papua.[2] However, the name New Guinea was later used by Westerners starting with the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez in 1545, referring to the similarities of the indigenous people's appearance with the natives of the Guinea region of Africa.[2] The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.

The Dutch, who arrived later under Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten, called it Schouten island, but later this name was used only to refer toislands off the north coast of Papua proper, the Schouten Islands or Biak Island. When the Dutch colonized it as part of Netherlands East Indies, they called it Nieuw Guinea.[2]

The name Irian was used in the Indonesian language to refer to the island and Indonesian province, as "Irian Jaya Province". The name was promoted in 1945 by Marcus Kaisiepo,[1] brother of the future governor Frans Kaisiepo. It istaken from the Biak language of Biak Island, and means "to rise", or "rising spirit". Irian is the name used in the Biak language and other languages such as Serui, Merauke and Waropen.[2]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea#Names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0XLUUSb5Y

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In 1920, Ernest Francois Eugene Douwes Dekker (1879–1950), who was also known as Setiabudi, introduced a new name for this proposed independent country (successor state of colonial Dutch East Indies) — which unlike its currently used name of "Indonesia" — did not contain any words etymologically inherited from the name of India or the Indies.[7] The new proposed name was the locally developed name Nusantara. This is the first instance of the term Nusantara appearing after it had been writteninto Pararaton manuscript.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara#The_first_appearance_of_Nusantara_concept_in_the_20th_century

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In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European tovisit the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming it Islas Salomón ("Solomon Islands") after the wealthy biblical King Solomon.[4] It is said that they were given this name in the mistaken assumption that they contained great riches,[6] and he believed them to be the Bible-mentioned city of Ophir.[7]

During most of the period of British rule the territory was officially named "the British Solomon Islands Protectorate".[8] On 22 June 1975 the territory was renamed "theSolomon Islands".[8] When Solomon Islands became independent in 1978, the name was changed to "Solomon Islands".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands#Name

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The island appears with a Portuguese name Cirne on early Portuguese maps, probably from the name of a ship in the 1507 expedition. Another Portuguese sailor, Dom Pedro Mascarenhas, gave the name Mascarenes to the Archipelago.

In 1598, a Dutch squadron under Admiral Wybrand van Warwyck landed at Grand Port and named the island Mauritius, in honour of Prince Maurice van Nassau, stadholder of the Dutch Republic.Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France.On 3 December 1810, the French surrendered the island to Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Under British rule, the island's name reverted to Mauritius

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#Etymology

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Originally, Portuguese and French merchant-explorers in the 15th and 16th centuriesdivided the west coast of Africa, very roughly, into four "coasts" reflecting local economies. The coast that the French named the Côte d'Ivoire and the Portuguese named the Costa do Marfim—both, literally, mean "Coast of Ivory"—lay between what was known as the Guiné de Cabo Verde, so-called "Upper Guinea" at Cap-Vert, and Lower Guinea.[9][10] There was also a Pepper Coast, also known as the "Grain Coast", a "Gold Coast", and a "Slave Coast". Like those, the name "Ivory Coast" reflected the major trade that occurred on that particular stretch of the coast: the export of ivory.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast#Names

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European contacts within Sierra Leone were among the first in West Africa in the15th century. In 1462, Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the shaped formation Serra da Leoa or "Serra Leoa" (Portuguese for Lioness Mountains).[21] The Spanish rendering of this geographic formation is Sierra Leona, which later was adapted and, misspelled, became the country's current name.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone#European_trading

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Gabon's name originates from gabão, Portuguese for "cloak", which is roughly the shape of the estuary of the Komo River by Libreville.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon#Etymology

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Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerfulchiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known asKamerun.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon

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For most of its history, up until independence, the country was known as Santo Domingo[36]—the name of its present capital and patron saint, Saint Dominic—andcontinued to be commonly known as such in English until the early 20th century.[37] The residents were called "Dominicans" (Dominicanos), whichis the adjective form of "Domingo", and the revolutionaries named theirnewly independent country "Dominican Republic" (República Dominicana).

Inthe national anthem of the Dominican Republic (himno nacional de la República Dominicana), the term "Dominicans" does not appear. The authorof its lyrics, Emilio Prud'Homme, consistently uses the poetic term "Quisqueyans" (Quisqueyanos). The word "Quisqueya" derives from a nativetongue of the Taino Indians and means "Mother of the lands" (Madre de las tierras). It is often used in songs as another name for the country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic#Names_and_etymology

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The name "Colombia" is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus(Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish: Cristóbal Colón). It was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish rule (by then from Mississippi river to Patagonia). The name waslater adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819, formed from the territories of the old Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, and northwest Brazil).[18]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia#Etymology

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The Spanish expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, sailing along the length of the northern coast of South America in 1499, gave the name Venezuela ("little Venice" in Spanish) to the Gulf of Venezuela — because of its imagined similarity to the Italian city.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Venezuela

A few of the more subtle ones:

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In the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company established a commercial post at Fort Zeelandia (modern-day Anping, Tainan) on a coastal sandbar called "Tayouan",[30] after their ethnonym for a nearby Taiwanese aboriginal tribe, possibly Taivoan people, written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as Taiouwang, Tayowan, Teijoan, etc.[31] This name was also adopted into the Chinese vernacular (in particular, Hokkien, as Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-oân/Tâi-oân) as the name of the sandbar and nearby area (Tainan). The modern word "Taiwan" is derived from this usage, which is seen in various forms (大員, 大圓, 大灣, 臺員, 臺圓 and 臺窩灣) in Chinese historical records. The area occupied by modern-day Tainan represented the first permanent settlement by both European colonists and Chinese immigrants. The settlement grew to be the island's most important trading centre and served as its capital until 1887. Use of the current Chinese name (臺灣) was formalized as early as 1684 with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture. Through its rapid development the entire Formosan mainland eventually became known as "Taiwan".[32][33][34][35]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Etymology

(The only correct name is:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning )

Then there is:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa

which need to be renamed because we need to discontinue the Eurocentric term "Africa" altogether. (Namibia was until 1990 known as "South-West Africa", therefore its name change sets a positive example that these other countries can follow.)

And of course the most obvious one of all that is so obvious it is sometimes forgotten:

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The name "Israel" (Hebrew: Yisraʾel, Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ Israēl; 'El(God) persists/rules', though after Hosea 12:4 often interpreted as "struggle with God")[60][61][62][63] in these phrases refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible,was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the angel of theLord.[64] Jacob's twelve sons became the ancestors of the Israelites, also known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel or Children of Israel.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Etymology

(The only correct name is:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22 )

Please add to this list as well as discuss existing items.

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How fitting that Colón has such a surname. (Colón is actually cognate with “Dove,” the bird, but never mind that.)

It would be tactical in propaganda to synonomize Colonial mindset with *Colónial*—referring to the mindset of Columbus as he “stumbled” across the Carribean.

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newsinfo.inquirer.net/1091675/duterte-stresses-desire-to-rename-philippines

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President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday reiterated his desire to change the name of the Philippines weeks after he said the late president Ferdinand Marcos was right in wanting to change the country’s name to “Maharlika.”

But Duterte said he had no particular name yet in mind.

“I want to change it in the future. No particular name yet but sure I would like to change the name of the Philippines because the Philippinesis named after King Philip,” he said in a speech during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Isabela City gymnasium in Basilan.

Do it! And make sure you rename the gymnasium (and the city the gymnasium is named after) while you are at it!

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citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1990322/eff-wants-sa-renamed-azania-says-shivambu/

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Talking to JJ Tabane on Power FM, EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu addressedthe issue of name changes in South Africa, saying he believed ‘South Africa’ had colonial connotations and should be changed to Azania.

“The name South Africa was an attempt to give direction to the colonial output. We must decide as a country to democratically change the name ofthe country to Azania,” he said.

Shivambu’s view seems to be in line with that of PAC general secretary Narius Moloto, who called for SAto be renamed Azania in June 2017.

“Azania is the original name of the Southern tip of Africa, and the research by Professor Es’kiah Mphahlele clearly reveals that the real name of South Africa is actuallyAzania,” he told Talk Radio 702 at the time.

According to Moloto: “The name Azania is derived from the term Azanj, which is Arabic.”

“It has its own historic referral rather than geographical. This country did not have a real name, rather a geographical name,” he continued.

Shivambu said the EFF also wanted to rename anything in South Africa that was still named after apartheid leaders.

“The names of so many things in SA after racist apartheid leaders is one that definitely should be addressed, and we are working on that,” he said.

Nice! Azania it is!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 01, 2020, 02:04:33 am
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Rename the bases!

www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/opinion/sunday/army-base-names-confederacy-racism.html

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Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?

It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.
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The white supremacist who murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., five years ago dispensed with the fiction that the Confederate battle flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern pride.” A murderer’s manifesto describing the killings as the start of a race war — combined with photos of the killer brandishing a pistol and a rebel flag — made it impossible to ignore the connection between Confederate ideology and ablood-drenched tradition of racial terrorism that dates back to the mid-19th century in the American South.
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This same toxic legacy clings to the 10 United States military installations across the South that were named for Confederate Army officersduring the first half of the 20th century. Apologists often describe the names as a necessary gesture of reconciliation in the wake of the Civil War. In truth, the namings reflect a federal embrace of white supremacy that found its most poisonous expression in military installations where black servicemen were deliberately placed under the command of white Southerners — who were said to better “understand” Negroes — and confined to substandard housing, segregated transportationsystems and even “colored only” seating in movie houses.

As the official Defense Department history of this period now acknowledges, thefederal embrace of the Jim Crow system undermined the country’s readiness for war and destroyed morale, introducing black recruits to a brand of hard-core racism many had not experienced in civilian life. As the military opened more and more such bases across the country, the history notes, it “actually spread federally sponsored segregation into areas where it had never before existed with the force of law.” In otherwords, the base names were part of a broad federal sellout to white supremacy that poisoned the whole of the United States.

Celebrating a War Criminal

The officials who named a military base in Virginia for a profoundly dishonorable Confederate general, George Pickett, must have been willfully blind to a voluminous record demonstrating his unworthiness. In addition to being accused of cowardice at the pivotal battle at Gettysburg, the incompetent, self-regarding Pickett faced a war crimes investigation for the executions of 22 Union soldiers at Kinston, N.C., near the end of the war. When a Union general reminded Pickett that federal policy mandated retaliation for extralegal killings of Union soldiers, the Confederate general responded by crowing about the killings and threatening to hang 10 U.S. Army prisoners for every Confederate prisoner who might be marched to the gallows.

A military panel investigating the Kinston killings wrote unsparingly of Pickett’s command: “It is the opinion of board,” the panel wrote, “thesemen have violated the rules of war and every principle of humanity, andare guilty of crimes too heinous to be excused by the Government of theUnited States.” Pickett fled to Canada to avoid possible prosecution. He might well have been hauled back in manacles had the U.S. Army commander, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not short-circuited the investigation.As the journalist and Civil War historian Gerard A. Patterson writes, Grant’s decision to save Pickett, with whom he had served in the Mexican-American war, was a classic act of old-boy cronyism. Even if Pickett’s crimes were set aside, his ineptitude in combat should have ruled him out of consideration when federal authorities were naming military installations.

By the time the federal government soughtout military training facilities in the South in preparation for war abroad, the school of mythology known as the Lost Cause movement — forged by groups like The United Daughters of the Confederacy — had rewritten Civil War history. This telling valorized the Ku Klux Klan; cast even the most execrable Confederate officers as saints; and portrayed slavery as an idyll featuring loving masters who doted on happy black retainers.

The Lost Cause era also ushered in a reignof racial terror during which African-Americans were stripped of basic rights and murdered in public for reasons such as competing with whites in business, seeking the vote or even failing to give way on the sidewalk.
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The federal government embraced pillars of the whitesupremacist movement when it named military bases in the South. Consider, for example, Fort Benning, Ga., which honors a Confederate general, Henry Lewis Benning, who devoted himself to the premise that African-Americans were not really human and could never be trusted with full citizenship.

Benning was widely influential in Southern politics and served on the Supreme Court of Georgia before turning his attentions to the cause of secession. In a now famous speech in 1861, hetold secession conventioneers in Virginia that his native state of Georgia had left the union for one reason — to “prevent the abolition ofher slavery.” Benning’s statements strongly resemble that of present-day white supremacists — and reference the race war theme put forward by the young racist who murdered nine African-Americans in Charleston five years ago.

Benning warned, for example, that the abolition of slavery would one day lead to the horror of “black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything.” This, heopined, would place white womanhood at the mercy of African-Americans with the same rights as white people. “We will be completely exterminated,” he said, “and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then it will go back into a wilderness.”

By naming yet another Georgia base for a Confederate general, John Brown Gordon, the federal government venerated a man who was a leader of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War and who may have taken on a broader role in the terrorist organization when its first national leader — a former Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest — suffereddeclining health. As a politician, Gordon championed the late-19th-century campaign that stripped African-American Southerners ofthe citizenship rights they had briefly held during the period just after the Civil War known as Reconstruction.

Among the other Confederate officers honored at Southern military bases are merely undistinguished or flatly incompetent commanders like the irascible Gen.Braxton Bragg — “the most hated man of the Confederacy,” one biographercalls him. Bragg was known for pettiness and cruelty, along with the battlefield failures that eventually led to his being relieved of command.

A Deal With White Supremacy

The Charleston dead were scarcely cold when an Army spokesman declared that there was no need to expunge Confederate base names because the names were merely “historic’’ and “represent individuals, not causes or ideologies.”

The first problem with this argument is that, as individuals, these men were traitors. These rebel officers, who were willing to destroy the United States to keep black people in chains, are synonymous with the racist ideology that drove them to treason.

The second difficultyis that the base names were agreed upon as part of broader accommodation in which the military embraced stringent segregation so asnot to offend Southerners by treating African-Americans as equals. The names represent not only oppression before and during the Civil War, butalso state-sponsored bigotry after it.

Black recruits who volunteered to die for their country were mainly shut out of combat units, commanded by white Southerners who often resented being assigned to colored units. In some contexts, black servicemen were treated worse than prisoners of war. The actress and singer Lena Horne, for example, flew into a rage during World War II when she arrived at a military campto entertain only to find that the best seats — in the “white” section of the audience — had been reserved for German P.O.W.s.

The racist conventions applied on Southern military bases were exported to bases in the North and West as well. When commanders sought to police the leisure time conduct of black soldiers, those conventions spilled over into surrounding towns that had never known Jim Crow. At the heightof World War II, for example, Southern white officers at a base not farfrom Philadelphia reacted in vintage Deep South style when they saw black soldiers dating white women. One officer decreed that “any association between the colored soldiers and white women, whether voluntary or not, would be considered ****” — an offense that had long been subject to the death penalty under military law.

The Army surgeon general blew a kiss to racists in 1941 when he justified the RedCross policy of segregating the wartime blood bank by donor race — eventhough there was no scientific reason for doing so. The point was to assure white recipients that they would receive only “white” plasma. African-American newspapers quickly pointed out that a black doctor, Dr.Charles Drew, who directed the first Red Cross blood bank, had pioneered the techniques that made large-scale blood plasma storage possible.
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Military installations that celebrate white supremacist traitors have loomed steadily larger in the civic landscape since the country began closing smaller bases and consolidating its forces on larger ones. Bases named for men who sought to destroy the Union in the name of racial injustice are an insult to the ideals servicemen and women are sworn to uphold — and an embarrassing artifact of the time when the military itself embraced anti-American values. It is long past time for those bases to be renamed.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEN2Y9nIp3/?utm_source=ig_embed

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDwhB0lzZU/?utm_source=ig_embed

Maybe one day we will have a "WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE PLAZA"?

Thank you Mayor Bowser! She is also a sanctuary city trailblazer:

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www.modernghana.com/news/1009117/wake-up-africa-rename-victoria-falls-and-lake.html

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Fellow Africans and friends of Africa liberation starts by "Decolonizing The Mind," to borrow the title of a must-read book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o the Kenyan intellectual and author.

Africans why do we in the 21st century still have a “Lake Victoria” in Uganda and a “Victoria Falls” in Zimbabwe?

These are just two of the many African wonders that need to be renamed or restored to their original ones.

Yes! And on top of all this, stop using the terms "Africa" and "African", which themselves are Western concepts! Group people and territories by language, or by river basin, or by ancient empire, or by present-day country instead! This was how we used to do it before colonialism. Let'sget back to it.

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A parallel campaign must be the recovery of Africa's artifacts--which is an ongoing campaign--now housed or displayed in the world's leading museums.

I agree. We cover this also.

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How can Africans talk of Pan-African unity without first reclaiming Africa’s past? Do you see a lake Samori Ture in France or a Mount Nehanda in Britain? These were iconic resisters of European imperialism in the 19th century.

Do not talk of "pan-African" unity! Talk of unity among all formerly colonized peoples instead! Stop letting Westerners divide us according to how they see us!

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Last year, in April, while visiting London I posed for a photo in front of ariver the natives call "Thames." I posted the photo on my Facebook pageand declared I’d renamed that body of water "Gulu River," after my great ancestral hometown in Uganda.

The post got hundreds of "likes.” Someone tweeted it and it has since been retweeted several thousands of times. It also became a “story” when The Wire , The Daily Nation , Nairobinews and other outletes wrote about it. The BBC also carried an item under the headline “Ugandan ‘explorer renames London river.’” Thereafter, Africans started posing in front of monuments and rivers throughout Europe and renaming them after African icons.

Iimagine people liked my “discovery” because they felt I was giving the British a title ”taste of their own medicine." After the global Covid-19lockdowns end, I plan to resume my exploration so I can discover and rename more landmarks in Europe and here in the United States.

Nice for trolling, but be careful not to start taking it too seriously. We are better than the Western colonialists.

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But I want us to also start reclaiming Africa’s natural wonders which were arrogantly renamed by European so-called explorers. They were taken by African guides to "discover,” lakes, rivers, and mountains they then renamed (including Lake Victoria). Even though Africans naively assistedthem, they wrote terrible things about the Africans once they returned to Europe, as I document in my book " The Hearts of Darkness How White Writers Created The Racist Image of Africa," (third edition coming soon).

Samuel Baker, the British imperialist wrote in "Albert Nyanza," his 1866 book: "I wish the black sympathisers in England could see Africa’s inmost heart as I do, much of their sympathy would subside... Human nature viewed in its crude state as pictured amongst African savages is quite on a level with that of the brute, and not to be compared with the noble character of the dog. There is neither gratitude, pity, love, nor self-denial; no idea of duty; no religion; but covetousness, ingratitude, selfishness, and cruelty. All are thieves, idle, envious, and ready to plunder and enslave their weaker neighbours.”

Yet today in the 21st century, there's a secondary school named after Samuel Baker in Uganda, and a few years ago alumni raised money for his statue which stands on the school's campus. So evenin death, Baker still mocks the so-called "natives."

There are many African heroes and sheroes who deserve the honorific given to QueenVictoria, including: Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Samora Machel, Steve Biko, Robert Sobukwe, Kenneth Kaunda, Winnie Mandela, Nehanda, Yaa Asantewaa, Nzingah, and many others.

Nehanda was an anti-colonial resistanceleader executed, at the age of 58 by the British in Zimbabwe during Queen Victoria’s era. She was then beheaded and he skull shipped off to England. Don’t you think the spectacular falls deserves to bear her nameinstead of that of Victoria whose imperial agents killed her?
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Start a campaign to honor African icons in your country.

This is the time to reclaim Africa!

Except,I repeat, it was the same Western colonialists who introduced you to the concept of "Africa", a term which was never used locally in pre-colonial times south of Roman Libya. If you are serious about reclamation, begin by discarding this Western term!

(The fact that I have to point this out to a self-proclaimed decolonizer just shows how deep the colonization is.....)

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This is good too:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460719/House-Democrats-vote-make-Washington-D-C-state-renaming-Douglass-Commonwealth.html

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Washingtonthe ‘District of Columbia’ would be no longer, the bill’s language says, as the new state would be referred to as ‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’ – swapping out Italian explorer Christopher Columbus for Maryland-born abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

On the practical side:

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Republicans have been averse to giving the city of 706,000 Americans statehood because it would mean giving Holmes Norton, a Democrat, a vote and then there would be two new senators.

In 2016, about 91 per cent of D.C.’s voters selected Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, while just 4 per cent chose President Trump.

With the current demographic makeup of the city, there’d be practically no chance for a Republican senator to be elected from the new Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.
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Bowser made that point at a press conference in mid-June explaining that with state-hood D.C. could refuse National Guard members from other states coming into the city without local official’s consent.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 01, 2020, 02:18:21 am
https://www.fox8live.com/2020/06/29/mayor-cantrell-creates-street-renaming-commission/

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NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) -Mayor Latoya Cantrell says she plans to name two people to the city’s Street Renaming Commission which will aim to get rid of parks, streets, and monuments that celebrate white supremacists.
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The renaming commission was officially formed just two weeks ago, but Jefferson Davis Parkway is already in the process of being changed and will soon be named after former Xavier University president Norman C. Francis.
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The Commission will serve for a full calendar year with the responsibility for making the following recommendations:

    A list of streets, parks, and places that should be renamed, accompanied by a detailed explanation.
    A proposed list of replacement names for each recommended street, park, or place, accompanied by a detailed explanation.
    A process to facilitate both educating residents and receiving public feedback on the proposed changes.

https://www.facebook.com/LaToyaForNOLA/posts/4194410810598870
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 08, 2020, 11:17:14 pm
Another small victory:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-03/wa-king-leopold-ranges-renamed-wunaamin-miliwundi-ranges/12416254
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 17, 2020, 03:50:00 am
This was from 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvcE1-r1Qjo

Two years later, victory:

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2020/7/13/21322508/washington-nfl-football-team-nickname-change

Every bit of activism makes a difference.

What have you, the reader, done to help kill Western civilization?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 24, 2020, 11:14:41 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressmen-introduce-resolution-change-171935204.html

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A group of Republican House members introduced a resolution Thursday that would effectively ban the Democratic Party from the House or force a party name change over past slavery ties.

I see this as an opportunity for a Blue name change. Being called something other than "Democratic" will make things more convenient when we eventually promote autocracy. The truth is that the name "Democratic" is un-American, since democracy was never independently developed in the New World.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 10, 2020, 11:35:14 pm
https://www.audubon.org/news/-bird-world-grappling-its-own-confederate-relic-mccowns-longspur

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In 1851, John P. McCown, an amateur ornithologist and army officer stationed in Texas, shot a group of larks on the prairie. Examining his kills, he noted two examples of a bird he’d never seen before: pale gray longspurs with a small spot of chestnut on the wings and prominent white patches in the tail. After preparing the specimens, he sent it off to an ornithologist friend, who gave it the name McCown’s Longspur.

At the time, this was typical for species discovery and naming. In the 1800s, European explorers were rapidly documenting and naming animals new to them. As amateur and professional collectors like McCown pushed west into Indian lands, they often mailed bird specimens to researchers back east. Sometimes, ornithologists honored colleagues by tagging their names to new species, or named them after patrons or relatives. Today, 142 North American English common bird names are honorifics.

But McCown’s case stands out for one significant reason: Ten years after shooting the longspur, he joined the Confederate States Army, where he was ultimately promoted to Major General and commanded multiple armies by the end of the war. He is the only member of the Confederate armies whose name is borne by a bird.

Now, as American culture is embroiled in a reckoning with monuments to white supremacy—and when the birding world is itself confronting its own past and present racism—the McCown’s Longspur has become a central point of tension in a much larger debate about honorific bird names, colonialism, and racism. On social media, scientific listservs, and in petitions, many birders are arguing that honoring McCown enshrines the ideas he stood for when he fought for the right to enslave people and went to war against native tribes.

Confederacy aside, what does it say about a civilization that sees no problem with naming birds after the first humans who shot them?? Answer: it is Western. This story really succinctly captures how Western civilization interacts with everything it comes into contact with. The initiated violence, the utter lack of respect, the reflexive hubris, all in one package.

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Name changes aren’t uncommon in the bird world. The NACC annually updates common names—the names birds are colloquially called, as opposed to their formal scientific names—to reflect new scientific analyses or grammatical changes. But it has historically proven resistant to changing bird names on the grounds of cultural sensitivity. In a proposal filed in 2000 to change the name of an Arctic duck from the anti-Indigenous slur “Oldsquaw” to the European name Long-tailed Duck, the committee agreed to change the name for reasons of consistency but explicitly ruled out doing so for “political correctness.” Another proposal in 2011 to rename a Hawaiian species known as the Maui Parrotbill—which is not, as the proposal pointed out, a member of the parrotbill family—in favor of a newly invented name, Kiwikiu, which used Hawaiian symbols, was met with considerable venom. “It seems contrived, unfamiliar, unpronounceable, and lacks a long history of usage,” opined one member of the board, while another wrote: “For no other region in the world have what are the equivalent of local colloquial names been widely incorporated into standardized English names. Enough is enough.”

What do you expect from a Western institution?

And here is a False Leftist on the issue:

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Should any birds be named after people? Some birders, like Nick Lund, didn’t want to end the honorific process altogether. “It’s fun to honor people, and add a sense of history,” he wrote at The Birdist, while stressing that offensive names should be changed. “If there's a bird named after some guy and it turns out that guy was a huge racist jerk, change the name!”

Lund may be against racism, but he is still a Westerner because he thinks it is "fun" to name non-humans after humans. A True Leftist, on the other hand, is effortlessly aware that it is disrespectful.

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Birders like Philadelphia’s Tony Croasdale have created lists of revised names, redubbing animals like Rivoli’s Hummingbird to Majestic Hummingbird or Harris’s Hawk to Pack-hunting Hawk.

https://www.wildlifeobservernetwork.com/blog/renaming-the-birds-of-north-america
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 20, 2020, 11:23:35 pm
https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_dc1464e2-e2f8-11ea-9fce-7ba5e4be9be3.html

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'Jefferson Davis, your time is up': New Orleans street to be renamed for Black leader Norman Francis
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 12, 2020, 11:45:25 pm
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/students/2020/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-an-update

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From the start of the new academic year the David Hume Tower will be known as 40 George Square.

This is Hume:

https://medium.com/@christopherrichardwadedettling/david-hume-versus-the-negro-as-an-inferior-human-race-5430648f14fa

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There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturer amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the Whites, such as the ancient German, the present Tartars, still have something eminent about them

Further reading:

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/peter-harrison-enlightened-racism/12341988

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These questions become more pressing when we consider that other Enlightenment figures held similar views. Voltaire, lauded today as a champion of reason and free speech, categorised the “Caffres, the Hottentots, the Topinambous” as “children.”
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Another Enlightenment luminary, Immanuel Kant, expressed the view that full perfection of humanity was reserved for “the white race”; next came the “yellow Indians,” following by “the Negroes” and finally “the American peoples.” Americans he regarded as ineducable and lazy.

Even the generally inoffensive John Locke, well known as an advocate of religious toleration and liberalism, was not entirely blameless. He was an investor in the Royal Africa Company, an operation responsible for the transportation of tens of thousands of West Africans to the Americas.
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Given all this, it is not surprising that more than one commentator has suggested that the scientific racism of the nineteenth century had its intellectual origins in the Enlightenment. But historical genealogies are complicated, racism clearly predated the Enlightenment, and many different historical factors inform the varieties of modern racism. We can still ask, however, whether the attitudes of these Enlightenment figures were simply background noise or were in some way integral to their thinking. If the latter, then we may need to view some prominent recent advocacies of a return to Enlightenment values with a degree of caution.

Many False Leftists make the mistake of appreciating "Enlightenment values".

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Two aspects of “Enlightenment thinking” around the race question bear closer attention: ideas of progress and religious scepticism. (Scare quotes are deployed here because I refer to popular conceptions of the Enlightenment, rather than the messy and multiple historical movements that might legitimately lay claim to that label.)

Commitment to progress, inflected by the racial understandings on display in Hume and others, meant that “inferior races” were either doomed to perpetual inferiority or extinction on account of supposed fixed and unchangeable deficiencies, or were seen as the child-like stages of the fully developed Western European type. Either way, the principle of progress meant that other races would be ranked in accordance with their degree of conformity to European societies that were imagined to epitomise human advancement.

The True Left is not bothered by such a description because we view children as superior. This is why we call ourselves the regressive left:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: guest22 on October 05, 2020, 03:40:28 am
Palestine is also a colonial name introduced by the Romans. What about Canaan?

As for the so-called Enlightenment, I'm with you on this one. Enlightnenment thinkers supported enlightened rational egoism, in fact they were predecessors to Ayn Rand.

Kant saw Native Americans as more primitive than Blacks? That's something new, normally racists see Blacks as the worst.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 06, 2020, 12:11:43 am
"Palestine is also a colonial name introduced by the Romans"

The Roman Empire was not a colonial empire, therefore we have no problem with Roman names continuing to be used.

In any case, "Palestine" comes from "Philistine" which predates the Roman Empire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines#Etymology

Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 17, 2020, 12:21:56 am
Small victories:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-might-change-44-school-names-renouncing-15651679.php

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A third of San Francisco public schools could see their names changed as officials push to replace “inappropriate” ones honoring presidents, writers, generals and even Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
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The principal of Commodore Sloat, Fowzigiah Abdolcader, notified parents Wednesday of the need to come up with a new name, because John D. Sloat was a colonizer who “claimed/stole” California from Mexico, according to the committee.
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In a September meeting, panelist Mariposa Villaluna urged the committee to include Thomas Edison Elementary School on the list to change, saying he euthanized animals, including Topsy the elephant, according to a video of the meeting.
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El Dorado Elementary came up next for discussion, with board members questioning whether the criteria should apply to a mythological place associated with settlers or colonists.

“The concept of El Dorado, especially in California, had a lot to do with the search of gold, and for the indigenous people that meant the death of them,” said Mary Travis Allen during a September panel meeting. “I don’t think the concept of greed and lust for gold is a concept we want our children to be given.”
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That work includes a recommendation to change the name of Dianne Feinstein Elementary, a name given by the Board of Education in 2006 when the new school opened.

The school made the list because, as mayor in 1986, Feinstein reportedly replaced a vandalized Confederate flag, one of several historic flags flying in front of City Hall at the time.

And of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

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Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman[1] in San Francisco, to Betty (née Rosenburg), a former model, and Leon Goldman, a surgeon. Feinstein's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburg family, were from Saint Petersburg, Russia.[9] While they were of German-Jewish ancestry,[10] they practiced the Russian Orthodox (Christian) faith
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 30, 2020, 01:37:42 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tnrgfA1Wew
Title: The Voice of Black America?
Post by: guest5 on December 03, 2020, 10:24:10 am
The Voice of Black America?
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How the white political establishment anointed Charlamagne tha God as the spokesman for all Black voters.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/charlamagne-tha-god-white-political-establishment-breakfast-club.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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Charlemagne (English: /ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/; French: [ʃaʁləmaɲ])[3] or Charles the Great[a][b (2 April 748[4][c] – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier.[5] The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonised by Antipope Paschal III.

Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, born before their canonical marriage.[6] He became king of the Franks in 768 following his father's death, initially as co-ruler with his brother Carloman I, until the latter’s death in 771.[7] As sole ruler, he continued his father's policy towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in northern Italy and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain. He campaigned against the Saxons to his east, Christianising them upon penalty of death and leading to events such as the Massacre of Verden. He reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Charlemagne has been called the "Father of Europe" (Pater Europae),[8] as he united most of Western Europe for the first time since the classical era of the Roman Empire and united parts of Europe that had never been under Frankish or Roman rule. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of energetic cultural and intellectual activity within the Western Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church viewed Charlemagne less favourably due to his support of the filioque and the Pope's having preferred him as emperor over the Byzantine Empire's first female monarch, Irene of Athens. These and other disputes led to the eventual later split of Rome and Constantinople in the Great Schism of 1054.[9][d]

Charlemagne died in 814 and was laid to rest in Aachen Cathedral in his imperial capital city of Aachen. He married at least four times and had three legitimate sons who lived to adulthood, but only the youngest of them, Louis the Pious, survived to succeed him. He also had numerous illegitimate children with his concubines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 04, 2020, 10:23:55 pm
More small steps:

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247549410.html

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Nine Charlotte streets named after people with ties to the Confederacy, white supremacy, segregation or slavery should be renamed, a panel commissioned by the city recommended Wednesday.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 25, 2021, 09:16:31 pm
Good moves:

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/471090/port-elizabeth-to-gqeberha-more-name-changes-will-come-minister/

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Arts and Culture minister Nathi Mthetwa has announced a number of name changes in the Eastern Cape, including the city of Port Elizabeth which will now be known as Gqeberha.
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Old name    New name    
Port Elizabeth International Airport    Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport    
Port Elizabeth    Gqeberha    
Uitenhage    Kariega    
East London Airport    King Phalo Airport    
Berlin    Ntabozuko    
MaClear Town    Nqanqarhu    
King William’s Town    Qonce

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The change has been criticised by the opposition Democratic Alliance which says that it will query the costs involved for the name change.

“It is important to interrogate whether the public, especially those residents living in these towns and cities, was given adequate and reasonable time to make their voices heard on the issue. Was the process advertised in due time and were every voice considered?

Were the colonized given the opportunity to make their voices heard during the colonial-era naming? No. So **** YOU.

My issue is when they are going to rename the entire country:

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The South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) provides for the transformation of South Africa’s naming landscape

Do they realize how stupid it sounds to use the colonial name "South Africa" for an organization supposedly dedicated to decolonizing names?

Related:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-02-25-east-london-to-be-renamed-soon-and-its-likely-to-be-gompo/

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XVMy8N3GV5UHbCaoa6qVL27yH36nSH-N0UqAOzC5gjGAqsGLHs7VpmxeTRPx3-UPameM9T3Xj11NxSpwG8q3QGKogzhCzoDlsA=s750)

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-02-24-gqeberha-the-origins-of-the-renaming-of-port-elizabeth/

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“We preceded this area for 1,000 years before anyone moved here. When we drive here we want to feel home, that we’re in Africa, and this name change would do that,” he said.

No, you are not in "Africa"! This is Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)

Using "Africa" to refer to a place thousands of miles away from the actual Africa and which the Romans didn't even know existed when they named the actual Africa, just because it is on the same side of the Mediterranean, is Eurocentrism. Stop it! (And stop driving too!)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 25, 2021, 10:53:10 pm
Every renaming is an improvement even if minor:

https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/2021/03/25/virginia-state-university-removes-names-people-racist-ties/6995283002/

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ETRICK — Virginia State University said Thursday it will change the names on four campus buildings honoring people "whose past beliefs are not consistent with the beliefs and legacy" of the historically Black college.

Gone from those buildings are the names Byrd Hall, Eggleston Hall, Trinkle Hall and Vawter Hall.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: guest5 on March 30, 2021, 11:46:09 pm
Floridians Spew Racist Nonsense in School Name Fight
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Florida residents tried to fight the name change of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, in a local meeting befitting Parks and Rec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhM07vrl5Fg
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 09, 2021, 11:53:39 pm
https://wvva.com/2021/04/09/alexandria-renames-2-schools-that-had-names-tied-to-racism/

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Alexandria City Public Schools in northern Virginia has renamed two schools whose previous names had ties to racism. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the school system renamed its flagship high school as well as an elementary school. The high school was named after T.C. Williams. He was a racist former superintendent who sought to prevent integration in the 1950s and claimed that Black and white students learn differently. The school will be named Alexandria City High School. Matthew Maury Elementary School was named for a Confederate naval officer. It will become Naomi L. Brooks Elementary School. The name honors a beloved Alexandria teacher who died in 2020.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: rp on April 16, 2021, 10:49:46 pm
Should we really retain the name "America" given that it was named after the eponymous Westerner Amerigo Vespucci?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 16, 2021, 11:10:32 pm
JAM used to promote the following etymology:

https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071213135331AAbthHF

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The Scandinvian word "OMMERIKA" means the farthest away place. Lumber found( in Iceland or Greenland) in an old ship can be dated way before Columbus and Amerigo. Since it was 250 miles to land in North America and way farther to Europe it can be concluded that the wood came from the North American Continent. SO, THE VIKINGS were here first and the sailors LINGO at the time referred to a land they called 'OMMERIKA".

While I hope we can ultimately get back to calling it Atlantis, this is too esoteric for now. With short-medium term propaganda in mind, I consider it crucial for leftists to own the name "America".
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: rp on April 16, 2021, 11:24:47 pm
"JAM used to promote the following etymology"
Is this true? Or is it simply for propaganda purposes?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 17, 2021, 12:26:44 am
I haven't researched it myself.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 27, 2021, 11:29:02 pm
https://richmond.com/news/local/education/william-mary-renames-three-buildings-history-department-that-honored-confederate-supporters/article_7f81121e-8b13-5ec1-bcf4-e6829141892b.html

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WILLIAMSBURG — The College of William & Mary has renamed three buildings and a department that currently honor supporters of the Confederacy, the school’s latest move in a yearslong process to shed references to men who supported the Confederacy, enslavement and racism.
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But one member of the board and the university’s student government president criticized the university for not removing every name that honors an enslaver and not moving fast enough.

“I’m going to have a problem with racism on this campus until we eliminate all of it, and I don’t think we’re eliminating all of it,” Brian Woolfolk told his fellow board members.

Colleges across Virginia have made similar decisions removing building names, plaques and statues that honor members of the Confederacy and those who endorsed Jim Crow policies or segregation. In the past year, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University and James Madison University have renamed buildings on their campuses.
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So far, William & Mary has identified 51 former employees or board members who were slave owners. Many of their names still appear on university streets, awards, plaques and buildings, said Anthony Joseph, the school’s student government president, who is Black. The university opted not to change the name of Ewell Hall, named for former university president and Confederate officer Benjamin Ewell. Rowe called his story complex and redemptive.

Joseph told the board of visitors on Friday that there was more work to be done and that the university needed to “work faster.”

“Don’t allow the shadow of our past to continue to grow,” he told the board.

Brian Woolfolk, a member of the board of visitors who is Black, echoed those sentiments. He said there are portraits and sculptures of slaveholders that haven’t been addressed, and he questioned why the university wasn’t confronting the problem in its entirety.

This is the correct attitude.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 29, 2021, 10:30:53 pm
https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/04/24/australias-colonial-names-are-being-replaced-by-aboriginal-ones

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Ayers Rock, a monolith in the continent’s red centre, was given a dual name, Uluru, in 1993. Few Australians now call it by its European moniker. A Mount **** and seven ****’s Creeks stained maps in Queensland until 2017. But recent protests against racial discrimination have invigorated calls to blot out offensive names. Some politicians are sympathetic.

The legacies of various colonial baddies are under scrutiny. The King Leopold Ranges in Western Australia, named after a Belgian ruler, have become the Wunaamin-Miliwundi mountains. The name of John Batman, a founder of Melbourne who hunted and shot Aboriginals, has been removed from a park (now Gumbri, meaning “white dove”).

Benjamin Boyd, a Scottish settler who trafficked slaves from Pacific islands, is next in line for a reckoning. An Aboriginal group in New South Wales wants to scratch out Boydtown as well as a national park named after him.

About Boyd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Boyd

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Benjamin Boyd (21 August 1801 – 15 October 1851)[1] was a Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, grazier, politician and slaver, exploiting South Sea Islander labour in the colony of New South Wales.[2]

Boyd became one of the largest landholders and graziers of the Colony of New South Wales before suffering financial difficulties and becoming bankrupt. Boyd briefly tried his luck on the Californian goldfields before being purportedly murdered on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.[2] Many of his business ventures involved blackbirding, the practice of enslaving South Sea Islanders.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding

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Blackbirding involves the coercion of people through deception or kidnapping to work as slaves or poorly paid labourers in countries distant to their native land. The term has been most commonly applied to the large-scale taking of people indigenous to the numerous islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 19th and 20th centuries. These blackbirded people were called Kanakas or South Sea Islanders. They were taken from places such as the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Easter Island, Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu and the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago amongst others.

The owners, captains and crew of the ships involved in the acquisition of these labourers were termed blackbirders. The demand for this kind of cheap labour principally came from European colonists in New South Wales, Queensland, Samoa, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii, as well as plantations in Peru, Mexico and Guatemala.
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Examples of blackbirding outside the South Pacific include the early days of the pearling industry in Western Australia at Nickol Bay and Broome, where Aboriginal Australians were blackbirded from the surrounding areas.[5]

Maybe we should start a separate topic on this phenomenon in the Colonial Era forum?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 02, 2021, 12:44:01 am
https://thelensnola.org/2021/04/23/opsb-approves-20-school-buildings-to-be-renamed-including-mcdonogh-35/

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The Orleans Parish School Board approved a list of 20 school campuses to be renamed at its Thursday meeting — because they were found to be named for a slave owner, separatist or segregationist and must be renamed under a board policy passed last year.
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“These kids, white, black, whatever…DO NOT want the name of a white supremacist BRANDED across their backs, their chests not one more day,” Terrie wrote.

The same goes for teachers, Grant replied. “Some of which have made clear that they are leaving the school because of this. Our teachers should not have to walk through the doors or wear an ID tag with the name of a white supremacist on it.”

Exactly.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 25, 2021, 10:09:59 pm
Now we are building momentum!

https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/columbus-haters-rename-street-for-murderous-haitian-emperor/

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Some of the city’s biggest elected Christopher Columbus haters spearheaded an effort in the City Council to rename a Brooklyn street after Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines — who is infamous for a brutal massacre of thousands of white settlers in 1804.

In 2018, then-City Councilman Jumaane Williams and Councilwoman Inez Barron celebrated the addition of Dessalines’ name to the corner of Rogers and Newkirk avenues in Flatbush.

“Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a revolutionary who fought for his people and overthrew an oppressive regime who brutally enslaved and persecuted the Haitian people,” Williams, now the city’s Public Advocate, said triumphantly at the time.

“This was not something that was done in the usual manner and passed with ease. This was a fight and a struggle,” said Barron amid the jubilation of Brooklyn’s local Haitian community.

Of course, renaming a street after a hero means nothing unless people bother to actually model themselves after the hero.

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 06, 2021, 09:52:29 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-places-racist-names-dot-110006766.html

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More than 1,000 towns, lakes, streams, creeks and mountain peaks across the U.S. still bear racist names, according to a federal board under the Department of the Interior.

Why it matters: The legacies of sites with names such as Squaw Lake, Minn., and Dead Negro Spring in Oklahoma endure, even amid a national push to remove Confederate monuments and change designations of public buildings named for racists.
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By the numbers: The database maintained by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names shows there are 799 sites that contain the word "squaw" — a derogatory term for Native American women.

    It also shows 621 places with the word "negro" in them, including Big Negro Creek in Warren, Ill. — and Negro Foot, Va., an unincorporated community said to have been named in reference to an enslaved person whose foot was amputated to prevent escape.

    Twenty-nine places contain the word "Chinaman" — an offensive term describing Chinese American men. There's Chinaman Hat in Wasco County, Ore., and Chinamans Canyon in Las Animas County, Colo.

    There are 82 places with the word "redman" (an offensive term for Native Americans), seven places with the term "darkey" (an offensive term for Black Americans), and 11 places with "redskin."

    New Mexico is home to a reservoir called Wetback Tank, while there are 12 places around the country with the term "greaser." Both are epithets used to describe Mexican Americans.

    Five places are named "Anna," which once meant "Ain’t No (N-words) Allowed" to Black travelers since some were sundown towns — places Black people weren't allowed after dark.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 08, 2021, 10:11:46 pm
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/06/01/duval-school-board-votes-to-change-6-confederate-tied-schools-including-lee/7493301002/

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“Keeping the names of Confederate generals in our children's schools is a slap in the face to every African American that attends these schools," Wells Todd of Take’Em Down Jax said. "Those that oppose the names being changed are acknowledging their support for the Confederacy and all that it stood for."
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The school board voted to rename the following schools:

    Joseph Finegan Elementary to Anchor Academy
    Stonewall Jackson Elementary to Hidden Oaks Elementary School
    Jefferson Davis Middle to Charger Academy
    Kirby-Smith Middle to Springfield Middle School
    J.E.B. Stuart Middle to Westside Middle School
    Robert E. Lee High to Riverside High School
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“The School Board’s decision to rename six schools in Jacksonville is a giant step forward in righting a racist ideology. We don’t need schools named in honor of slave-holding Generals,” he said. “That our children had to go to schools that were named to honor a disgraceful past was an injustice. The School Board’s vote tonight rejects those ideas and is a victory for Jacksonville.”

The new names genuinely sound better too.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 11, 2021, 10:31:39 pm
Let us not forget that we are still losing more often than we win:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/white-supremacy-washington-and-lee-robert.html

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White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.

After the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee, the general who commanded the army of the Confederacy, was never tried, convicted, or sentenced for any crimes—not treason, not murder, not torture. Instead, he became president of Washington College, where he attracted students molded in his image, inspired by his lost cause, and motivated to maintain racial hierarchy. Under Lee’s leadership, his students would, among other things, form a KKK chapter and harass and assault Black school children. The board of trustees of Washington College honored this legacy when it decided to rename its institution Washington and Lee University.

Lee is the embodiment of white supremacy—he lived a life, as I previously argued, committed to racial subjugation and terror. He fought to enslave Black people—so the Confederate States of America could continue to profit on Black labor and Black pain while creating an anti-democratic state founded upon white supremacy. For this reason many stakeholders asked the current board of trustees of Washington and Lee University, where I am an assistant professor of law at the law school, to remove Lee as a namesake. After significant and critical national attention, Lee was finally put on trial at the place where his body is buried. Not guilty, the board of trustees announced on Friday. The vote was not even close—a supermajority of trustees (22 out of 28 trustees, or 78 percent) voted to retain Lee as a namesake. That vote, however, did more. It signaled that Washington and Lee University will continue to shine as a beacon of racism, hate, and privilege.

In response to the board’s decision, the university’s president released a statement. He declared that Lee’s name does not define the university or its stakeholders; rather, “we define it.” But we cannot engage in historical revisionism to redefine Lee’s name, nor should we. The board announced its commitment to “repudiating racism, racial injustice, and Confederate nostalgia.” But we cannot hope to make consequential change until we accept the truth of what Lee’s name means.

The jury at Washington and Lee harkens back to Jim Crow juries—white, male, privileged, and rigged. The jury, composed of 28 trustee members, was mostly white (25 trustees) and mostly male (23 trustees). Many of the witnesses supporting Lee were white, as were many of the big donors who threatened to withhold contributions if Lee’s name was removed. The outcome was never in doubt.

White supremacy has been put on trial before throughout our history. The outcomes in those trials was also predictable. The “Indian Removal Act” ensured white officials could never be found guilty of stealing Native land and committing genocide on the Trail of Tears. White insurrectionists in Wilmington, North Carolina, murdered Black residents, destroyed Black-owned businesses, and then ousted Wilmington’s anti-segregation, pro–equal rights government to insulate themselves against accountability. The United States Supreme Court sanctioned Japanese internment during World War II. An all-white, all-male jury found Emmett Till’s murderers not guilty after 67 minutes of deliberation. Los Angeles cops were acquitted of bludgeoning Rodney King after the jury watched the tape more than 30 times.

When our racial ghosts are on trial, we know the outcome. When truth and justice are on trial, we know the outcome. When our country is asked to reject a revisionist tissue of historical lies, we know the outcome. White supremacy wins. White supremacy remains adaptable, persistent, violent, and nearly undefeated.

It inspires an insurrection. It introduces 389 restrictive voting right bills in 48 states over the past six months. It forbids schools to give a true accounting of our history—a history of racial violence, from the Trail of Tears, to Black Wall Street, to extrajudicial killings including those of Emmett Till, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. It allows Washington and Lee University to keep Lee as a namesake because it is safer to benefit from white supremacy than to summon the courage to even appear anti-racist.

Historical revisionism shelters white supremacy. It entrenches white supremacy. It emboldens white supremacy. We need truth and reconciliation in America. We must face our past head-on and acknowledge it for what it was: oppression and racial terror fueled by white supremacy. Only then can we start to reimagine our democratic institutions as more—more just, more fair, more equal. Only then will we build the capacity, the resolve, and the collective will to find white supremacy guilty.

Better yet, we could reimagine our institutions as more just and more fair via becoming non-democratic. Democracy is a Western system:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/western-democracy/

Democracy was what, as you yourself just described, delivered victory to white supremacy. So why are you continuing to trust it?
Title: Re: Statue decolonization
Post by: Zhang Caizhi on June 25, 2021, 05:22:42 am
OK, but if we can take down statues of Columbus, why are we still calling the country "Colombia" after Columbus? We need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/

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Some among Colombia’s white majority continue to consider Columbus and even controversial characters like Belalcazar as part of their cultural identity.

These are the only ones who should be called Colombians (and hence Western occupiers). The rest should choose a new name.

It's interesting that Colombia came from Francisco de Miranda, a military leader who fought against Spain.

https://www.vox.com/2015/2/1/7954179/map-countries-people

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Colombia/Christopher Columbus: Colombia is named after Columbus, but not in the way that you might think. The name Colombia dates back to Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary who sought to overthrow Spanish colonial rule in late-18th and early 19th century Latin America. He used "Colombia" as a term for all of so-called Spanish America. After General Simon Bolivar actually defeated the Spanish in 1819, the name came to refer to the new country of Gran Colombia (roughly present-day Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela).

Before that, Gran Colombia was called the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva Granada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Colombia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 25, 2021, 10:20:25 pm
Yes, this was covered in the first post of this topic:

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The name "Colombia" is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus(Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish: Cristóbal Colón). It was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish rule (by then from Mississippi river to Patagonia). The name waslater adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819, formed from the territories of the old Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, and northwest Brazil).[18]

Regardless, it is an unacceptable name.

"New Granada"

This is also a bad name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada

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Granada was in the eleventh century the center of Sephardic civilization at its peak, and from 1027 until 1066 Granada was a powerful Jewish state. Jews did not hold the foreigner (dhimmi) status typical of Islamic rule. Samuel ibn Nagrilla, recognized by Sephardic Jews everywhere as the quasi-political ha-Nagid ('The Prince'), was king in all but name. As vizier he made policy and—much more unusual—led the army.... It is said that Samuel's strengthening and fortification of Granada was what permitted it, later, to survive as the last Islamic state in the Iberian peninsula.

All of the greatest figures of eleventh-century Hispano-Jewish culture are associated with Granada. Moses Ibn Ezra was from Granada; on his invitation Judah ha-Levi spent several years there as his guest. Ibn Gabirol’s patrons and hosts were the Jewish viziers of Granada, Samuel ha-Nagid and his son Joseph.[11]

On the other hand, I would support a New Granada Massacre:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_Granada_massacre

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On 30 December 1066 (9 Tevet 4827), Muslim mobs stormed the royal palace where Joseph had sought refuge, captured and crucified him.[14] In the ensuing massacre of the Jewish population, many Jews of Granada were murdered. The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia claims, "More than 1,500 Jewish families, numbering 4,000 persons, fell in one day."[15] However, the 1971 edition does not give precise casualty figures.[16] That was possibly because the accounts of the massacre could not be verified, and as over 900 years had passed, it was subject to hyperbole.[14] The Encyclopaedia Judaica also confirms the figures : "According to a later testimony,[17] "more than 1,500 householders" were killed".[18]
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 29, 2021, 10:49:21 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/towson-university-removes-slave-owners-180453676.html

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TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Towson University has decided to remove the names of slave owners from two dormitories following a vote by the University System of Maryland board of regents allowing the school to rename them.
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Charles Carroll was one of Maryland’s first U.S. senators and William Paca served as the state’s third governor. Both signed the Declaration of Independence.

Paca owned at least 100 slaves when he died in 1799 and Carroll had as many as 500 — ranking them among the Marylanders who owned the largest number of slaves, according to a January report by the renaming committee.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/georgia-emory-university-latest-school-183000550.html

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the school’s Longstreet-Means residence hall will be renamed to simply Eagle Hall. The building currently takes its namesake from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. He was the university’s president from 1839-1848 and was all about slavery and secession, and very much against abolition.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 04, 2021, 10:01:52 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-district-changes-school-names-123000617.html

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An Orange County school board settled a monthslong conversation about historic markers of white supremacy this week with two new names for local schools.

The board voted 6-1 Monday to change the name of Cameron Park Elementary School to River Park Elementary, and to change the name of C.W. Stanford Middle School to Orange Middle School.
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Cameron Park is named for an Orange County slaveowner. Stanford Middle is named for Charles W. Stanford Sr., who was an Orange County school board member and chairman during segregation.

The decision to change Stanford’s name, based on his association with a school board that upheld separate but unequal education for Black students
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 19, 2021, 10:04:50 pm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/democrats-introduced-a-bill-to-rename-more-than-1-000-forests-lakes-and-mountain-peaks-named-with-racist-slurs-or-offensive-language/ar-AAMiXcw

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Congressional Democrats introduced a bill Friday to rename more than 1,000 places in the US named with offensive language and racist slurs.

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, and Rep. Al Green introduced the bill along with 25 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats.

Lawmakers first introduced the bill last year with Rep. Deb Haaland, who now serves as the secretary of the interior as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history.

"We need to immediately stop honoring the ugly legacy of racism and bigotry, and that's why I'm introducing the Reconciliation in Place Names Act with my colleagues," Warren said in a statement.

The bill would take aim at land units and geographic features, like forests, streams, and wilderness areas, with racist or bigoted names. It would create a process to review and rename places with inoffensive names. According to the statement from the lawmakers, questionable names have been identified for 1,441 federally recognized places.

More than 600 places have the word "n----," a slur for Black people, in their name, according to a database from the US Geological Survey. In Oklahoma there is Dead N---- Spring, so-named because a deceased Black person was found there, according to the USGS.

In New Mexico, there is a reservoir called W------ Tank, named with a slur for Mexican people living in the US. Nearly 800 results are returned by the USGS database when searching for the term "s----," an offensive word for Native American women.

Rightists often claim that different "non-white" ethnicities are even more bigoted towards one another than "whites" are bigoted towards them. If so, where are all the places named by people of one "non-white" ethnicity using slurs for another?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on July 26, 2021, 11:49:08 am
Rightist beneficiaries of name colonization pretending there is no such thing as colonization:

(https://i.redd.it/8dl9w8z8ehd71.jpg)

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However, questions arose about her ethnicity when in 2011, the Associated Press reported that the Republican governor identified herself as "white" on her voter registration card in 2001. Some critics believe that Nikki Haley may have an underlying reason for hiding her racial identity.
https://www.mic.com/articles/132538/nikki-haley-s-real-name-and-other-politicians-who-changed-theirs

(https://i.redd.it/kso4315iocd71.jpg)

While mocking other Westerners who don't use colonized names:

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So, when Republican Sen. David Perdue started intentionally mucking up Kamala Harris’ name, to say that I was less than “super impressed” is putting it mildly. “KAH-mah-lah? Kah-MAH-lah? Kamala-mala-mala?” the Georgia senator asked supporters at a Trump rally. “I don’t know, whatever.” The crowd roared.

For most people watching from afar, the overt racism animating Perdue’s performance was difficult to ignore. While mispronouncing non-white names is often indeed an innocent, unintentional mistake, one typically amended upon the first clarification, Harris is a historic vice presidential nominee and former presidential candidate. Perdue is her colleague in the Senate, where she reigns as one of the most prominent women in American politics.
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Mere seconds into watching Perdue, I recalled the resentment I once held toward my immigrant parents, who, from the perspective of a first-generation teenager growing up in an overwhelmingly white community in New Jersey, had burdened me with the strange, inconvenient stumble of letters that spelled out “Inae.” When the mispronunciations arrived intentionally—as they did countless times by neighborhood dummies and parents of school friends—the hate was instantly recognizable. “You can call me whatever,” is what I’d reflexively offer, hoping to signal that I was at once easy-going and immune to their contempt. Meanwhile, a slow-burning bitterness was building up. Little did I know that I had been green-lighting attempts of erasure.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/i-am-angry-that-racist-white-men-screw-up-our-names-and-try-to-erase-us/
Title: Re: Linguistic Decolonization
Post by: guest62 on September 14, 2021, 10:34:11 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989425/New-Zealand-change-M-ori-Party-said-sick-death-European-title.html
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New Zealand could change its NAME after Māori Party said it is 'sick to death' of the 'colonialist' European title

LONG LIVE AOTEAROA!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 14, 2021, 09:44:26 pm
Finally! And it looks like they want to be thorough about it:

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Te Pāti Māori, the nation's Māori Party, launched the campaign on Tuesday asking for Indigenous names to be restored for the country and including towns, suburbs and cities.

Wait, though:

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'We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa.'

Yes, you are Aotearoa. But no, you are not a "Polynesian" country. "Polynesia" is a colonial-era Western concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia

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The term Polynésie was first used in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses, who originally applied it to all the islands of the Pacific. In 1831, Jules Dumont d'Urville proposed a narrower definition during a lecture at the Geographical Society of Paris.

This is how to truly be thorough about it.

Also:

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'It is the duty of the Crown to do all that it can to restore the status of our language.

No, it is the duty of Aotearoans to smash the Windsor Crown. Start by changing the flag to something without the British Empire insignia on it!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/flag-decolonization/
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2021, 09:48:44 pm
https://apnews.com/article/science-lifestyle-minnesota-education-00629526e6ffd3ccc260a87fa29614a1

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College cites ‘scientific racism,’ renames Linnaeus building
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Linnaeus has been criticized for his 18th century book “Systema Naturae,” in which he classified four varieties of human, largely based on skin color and geography, which became the basis for scientific racism.
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The 120-acre plot that includes over a dozen formal gardens and restored natural areas has been renamed “The Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College.”

Next they should get rid of the formal gardens, a Western (and extremely sadistic) style which has no justifiable place in America (or anywhere, to be honest):

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg4050/#msg4050
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 06, 2021, 09:42:27 pm
More minor successes:

https://www.deseret.com/2021/12/1/22799123/the-government-wants-squaw-removed-from-more-than-50-places-in-utah-interior-haaland

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The Department of the Interior recently ordered that the derogatory term “squaw” be removed from lakes, mountains, trails and other features on federal land — and the largest share of the cleanup will be taking place in the West.

In California, the sexual slur for Native American women appears on 87 places, according to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which has a search tool to look up place names in every state. Idaho is a distant second with 69 places identified by the now-banned term followed by Arizona with 68 places.

When variants of the name are included in a search (such as historical or local references that are not formally recognized) the frequency of the term squaw as a place name can almost triple in some states.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a Native American from New Mexico, issued the order on Nov. 19, along with another directive establishing a process to review and replace other offensive names identifying the nation’s geographic features.

The orders, which continue an ongoing movement that goes back decades of eliminating derogatory names from landmarks, is expected to streamline and speed up what has usually been a lengthy, painstaking process to change the offensive name of a geographic site.

“Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage — not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression,” Haaland, the first Indigenous woman to head the department, said in a press release. “Today’s actions will accelerate an important process to reconcile derogatory place names and mark a significant step in honoring the ancestors who have stewarded our lands since time immemorial.”
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While there is some debate over when the term squaw evolved from an Algonquian word for female to a sexual slur used by European fur traders and white settlers, Native Americans generally associate the word with today’s derogatory definition and have led efforts over the years to eliminate it from place names around the country.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 22, 2021, 08:54:53 pm
https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/new-jersey-district-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-high-school/

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A New Jersey school district is planning to rename one of its schools named after former President Woodrow Wilson due to what critics say is a legacy of racism.
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Woodrow Wilson, a Virginia-born Democrat, served as New Jersey’s governor from 1911 to 1913 and as US president from 1913 to 1921.

His legacy has been challenged by activists and academics in recent years due to his support of racist policies.

In June 2020, the board of trustees at Princeton University, Wilson’s alma mater, voted to drop his name from his namesake School of Public and International Affairs.

“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice,” university President Christopher L. Eisgruber wrote in a statement on the board’s decision. “He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today.”

Also last June, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he would no longer use Wilson’s desk at his office in Trenton.

“The country is having a reckoning and Woodrow Wilson, and his legacy is being swept up in that, as it should be,” Murphy said at a press conference at the time.

More about Wilson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race

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Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the southern redemption movement; he was also one of the nation's foremost promoters of the lost cause mythology.[11] At Princeton, Wilson used his authority to actively discourage the admission of African-Americans.[1]
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Wilson specifically criticized efforts to protect voting rights for African-Americans and rulings by federal judges against state courts that refused to empanel black jurors. According to Wilson, congressional leaders had acted out of idealism, displaying "blatant disregard of the child-like state of the Negro and natural order of life", thus endangering American democracy as a whole.[13]

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/western-democracy/msg9997/#msg9997

In contrast:

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President of Princeton
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Wilson appointed the first Jew and the first Roman Catholic to the faculty
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In 1909, Wilson received a letter from a young African-American man interested in applying to attend Princeton; Wilson had his assistant write back promptly that "it is altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter Princeton."[23] Wilson eventually came to include in his justification for refusing to admit African-American students that Princeton had never done so in the past, though he knew such claims to be false. By the end of his time as president at Princeton, Wilson had taken steps to erase from the public record that African-Americans had ever attended or instructed at Princeton, though neither was true.[24] Princeton college would not admit a single black student until 1947,[25] becoming the last Ivy League institution to racially integrate.[26][27]
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Exclusion of African-Americans from administration appointments

By the 1910s, African-Americans had become effectively shut out of elected office. Obtaining an executive appointment to a position within the federal bureaucracy was usually the only option for African-American statesmen.[44] As Wilson named white supremacists to the highest levels of his administration, African-Americans were appointments in record low numbers. While it has been claimed Wilson continued to appoint African-Americans to positions that had traditionally been filled by blacks, overcoming opposition from many southern senators,[45] such claims deflect most of the truth however. Since the end of Reconstruction, both parties recognized certain appointments as unofficially reserved for qualified African-Americans. Wilson appointed a total of nine African-Americans to prominent positions in the federal bureaucracy, eight of whom were Republican carry-overs. For comparison, Taft was met with disdain and outrage from Republicans of both races for appointing "a mere thirty-one black officeholders", a record low for a Republican president. Upon taking office, Wilson fired all but two of the seventeen black supervisors in the federal bureaucracy appointed by Taft.[46][47]
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Not only were African-Americans almost completely excluded from higher level appointments, the Wilson cabinet was dominated by southerners, many of whom were unapologetic white supremacists.[61]
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Veto of the racial equality proposal

Japan had fought on the side of the allies during WWI and was the only non-white nation of the five major powers (the others being the Great Britain, France, the United States and Italy). The first draft of the Racial Equality Amendment was presented to the Commission on February 13, 1919 and stated:

The equality of nations being a basic principle of the League of Nations, the High Contracting Parties agree to accord as soon as possible to all alien nationals of states, members of the League, equal and just treatment in every respect making no distinction, either in law or in fact, on account of their race or nationality.
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For Wilson, even if it was inline with what his country claimed to stand for, it was repugnant to his personal belief in white racial superiority, an ideology that had guided policy in his administration since he took office.[100][101]
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Wilson exercised his power as Chairman and overturned the vote unilaterally. Wilson proceeded to explain that this specific amendment was so divisive and extreme it must have unanimous support in order to pass.[102]

Wilson's decision garnered praise from the governments of South Africa, Australia and Great Britain 

Thus Japan turned to Hitler.

Another point of contrast:

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Though Wilson aggressively championed the cause of self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe, his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia and Africa
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Wilson did insist that Poland and other eastern European countries (whose borders were carved out of the defeated empires of the Central Powers following the outcome of the war) ratify binding treaties, obligating them to protect the rights of minorities, mainly Jews, within their own borders.[122]

Thus we see that Wilsonism is the exact opposite of Hitlerism.

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he consistently expressed the belief that all members of the white race could and should be integrated into American society as equals regardless of heritage.[119] This was a recognition that Wilson never extended black Americans.[6]: 103
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Further dispelling claims he harbored anti-Semitic prejudices, Wilson appointed the first Jewish-American to the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis.[123]

See?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: Dazhbog on December 23, 2021, 05:55:22 am
Thus we see that Wilsonism is the exact opposite of Hitlerism.

Of course, as it is merely another kind of Duginism:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/09/02/illusion-of-a-friendly-empire-russia-the-west-and-ukraines-independence-a-century-ago/

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During the meeting on 30 June 1919 with Arnold Margolin, UNR’s [Ukrainian National Republic - Dazhbog] representative at the Paris Peace Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing tried to persuade him that Ukraine should recognize the authority of the “Supreme Ruler of Russia” Admiral Alexander Kolchak and join her troops with White armies:

“When it came to the Wilsonian principles [the idea of national self-determination promoted by then American President Wilson],” Margolin writes, “Lansing declared that he was aware of only one people of Russia and that a federation, like the United States, was the only way to reconstruct Russia. When I tried to argue that the existence of individual states, as entities, was the prerequisite of their federation, as in the United States, Lansing evaded the point and continued emphatically to call for the recognition of Kolchak.

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In August 1920, Wilson’s new Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby stressed that his government favored the respect for the “territorial integrity and true borders of Russia,” which would include the whole former Russian Empire, except for Finland, ethnic Polish lands, and Armenia.

Wilsonism was never chiefly about self-determination, but about strengthening Turandom at the expense of the Central Powers!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on December 29, 2021, 07:51:56 pm
Although the one of the possible original etymologies of Georgia is a word to distinguish agricultural ethnic groups from non-agricultural ones, the specific spelling many nations use to refer to Georgia came to them from the Russian language. In the past decade, a number of countries have de-Russified their official names for Georgia:

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The Russian name for Georgia is Gruziya (Грузия [‘gruzʲɪjə]), believed to come from Persian origin. This name first appeared as gurzi in Ignatiy Smolnyanin’s travel documents dating back to 1389. Later, the name grew popular among Slavic regions and across the Russian Empire.

With the request of the Georgian government, Israel, Lithuania, Japan, and South Korea changed their exonyms for the country to “Georgia.” Lithuania plans to call Georgia by its native name, Sakartvelo, in 2018.
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/georgia/articles/why-is-georgia-also-called-sakartvelo/

And Georgia de-Russified their name for Lithuania in return:

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As a gesture of appreciation, Georgia also changed Lithuania's Russian-derived name of "Litva" (Russian: Литва) to its native "Lietuva".[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Georgia#Abandoning_the_name
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 02, 2022, 01:07:44 am
This topic was originally intended for place names, but why not cover personal names also?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-immigrant-want-reclaim-110159572.html

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“Hi, Professor R, my name is Madhushree Ghosh.”

“Huh?”

“Madhushree.” He rolled his eyes and laughed.

“It’s too long, too difficult to pronounce. I will call you Madhu.”

He held keys to the PhD kingdom. I didn’t even know I had a choice. I became Madhu.
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With a shortened name, for nearly three decades I became Madhu, life, or honey. It isn’t me. It wasn’t me. But I didn’t want to inconvenience my PhD advisor who held the power to grant my degree. My business cards soon said Madhu Ghosh. I introduced myself so. I didn’t want to inconvenience any Americans. After all, I was the grateful immigrant. One didn’t have to be difficult, did one?

As immigrants, we don’t want to create trouble. Trouble is “foreign” names. Trouble is our “otherness” — we are responsible in how we erase ourselves.
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It took me till I was editing my memoir to realize the significance of what I had erased. I had erased my culture with my name. Isn’t it something when you don’t even know you’ve minimized yourself to fit in the box you’re expected to be in?

During the pandemic, I posted about my name on social media. Some white friends who I’d known forever DM’d me — “You told us to call you Madhu, so how are we to know?”

True, true. But I heard no such comments coming from people of color.

I slip up constantly and introduce myself as Madhu. Like I don’t believe I deserve to hold my own name.

The trouble with difficult names is that we are trying to fit in. The trouble is, when it’s unfamiliar, how do you ask for the pronunciation without insulting someone? The trouble is, we are all either too cautious or too flippant. The trouble is, we didn’t even notice when we erased ourselves.

I hope we can claim ourselves back.

To start, my name is Madhushree Ghosh, daughter of Sudhin and Sila Ghosh. Immigrant.

Well done. Also, you are American. Your PhD advisor, on the other hand, was not American, but a Western colonialist occupying territory that does not belong to him.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 21, 2022, 04:49:33 am
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/18/washington-elementary-school-renaming-yuri-kochiyama

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The renaming of Washington Elementary, the last Berkeley public school named after a slave owner, has been delayed until the end of the school year by a controversy surrounding one of the luminaries who’d been shortlisted to be the school’s new namesake.

Yuri Kochiyama, a survivor of Japanese incarceration camps known for speaking out against American imperialism, had been chosen as one of seven finalists. A supporter of reparations for Japanese Americans, she worked alongside Malcolm X against the oppression of Black Americans, famously cradling his head in her arms after his assassination.

Her name was taken off the list after parents notified the school principal that Kochiyama had once expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden. Though her name was reinstated shortly afterward, the removal brought up what some parents say is the all-too-familiar erasure of a figure who they called a “revered and respected hero.” She lived the final years of her life in Berkeley, where she died in 2014 at age 93.

Not only should admiration of bin Laden by American civil rights activists not be a problem, but there should be schools named after bin Laden himself! He was an American ally FFS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden

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Some sources have alleged that[1][2][3] the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had ties with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda and its "Afghan Arab" fighters when it armed Mujahideen groups to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War.

About the same time as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States began collaborating with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to provide several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Afghan pro-Soviet government and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known as "Afghan Arabs". The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Osama bin Laden, known at the time as a wealthy and pious Saudi who provided his own money and helped raise millions from other wealthy Gulf Arabs.
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In conversation with former British Defence Secretary Michael Portillo, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto said Osama bin Laden was initially pro-American.[6] Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, has also stated that bin Laden once expressed appreciation for the United States' help in Afghanistan. On CNN's Larry King program he said:[7]

Bandar bin Sultan: This is ironic. In the mid-'80s, if you remember, we and the United - Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists. Isn't it ironic?

Larry King: How ironic. In other words, he came to thank you for helping bring America to help him.

Bandar bin Sultan: Right.[8]

It was the US' fault for not turning against Israel after the Cold War ended. Had the US turned against Israel promptly, bin Laden would surely have remained pro-American to this day. After the US turns against Israel in the future, it should not forget to belatedly honour bin Laden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Beliefs_and_ideology

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In a December 1998 interview with Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, bin Laden stated that Operation Desert Fox was proof that Israeli Jews controlled the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom, directing them to kill as many Muslims as they could.[90] In a letter released in late 2002, he stated that Jews controlled the civilian media outlets, politics, and economic institutions of the United States.[66] In a May 1998 interview with ABC's John Miller, bin Laden stated that the Israeli state's ultimate goal was to annex the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East into its territory and enslave its peoples, as part of what he called a "Greater Israel".[91] He stated that Jews and Muslims could never get along and that war was "inevitable" between them, and further accused the US of stirring up anti-Islamic sentiment.[91] He claimed that the US State Department and US Department of Defense were controlled by Jews, for the sole purpose of serving the Israeli state's goals.[91] He often delivered warnings against alleged Jewish conspiracies: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next."[92]

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/military-decolonization/msg6761/#msg6761
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 13, 2022, 08:14:09 pm
Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/msg10984/#msg10984

now:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tear-jerking-ad-celebrates-beauty-164043584.html

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“For the AAPI community, belonging starts with a name. Join us to celebrate and learn AAPI names,” the caption read.

The ad follows the story of a Korean American girl named Yeong Joo Park. As her mother holds Yeong Joo as a newborn, the mom explains why she bestowed the name upon her daughter. She also warns of how some may not understand Yeong Joo’s name but how others will make the effort to learn and connect.

“Your name will make you feel different, like they don’t want to get to know you. But I promise there will be those who try,” the mother tells Yeong Joo.

The narrative fast-forwards to Yeong Joo as a young girl. She meets a friend on the bus who will pronounce her name and a soccer coach who mispronounces it but is willing to learn.

“Do you remember what Yeong Joo means?” the mother explains. “It means ‘strong and resilient’ because I know you will be.”

The tear-jerking ad certainly had people on TikTok in their feelings.

“I don’t have an English name and keep the Korean name my parents gave me. This campaign is beautiful,” someone commented.

“Got me over here crying. Love the Korean representation,” another said.

“Best ad ever. Made me feel comfortable about my Asian name,” a person wrote.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 05, 2022, 11:04:48 pm
At least the issue is being discussed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDX1qzIV8NA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Philippines#Proposed_names

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Kapatiran ("Brotherhood"), or its semi-equivalent Katipunan ("Assembly"/"Gathering").[39]

Luzviminda. A portmanteau of the first syllables of the country's three major island groups: Luzon; Visayas; and Mindanao. The term has sometimes been interchanged with Luzvimindas, due to the territorial claim of the country on eastern Sabah in Borneo.

Mahárlika (Sanskrit: mahardhikka (महर्द्धिक), "freeman"[40]). In Pre-Hispanic Philippines, the mahárlika was the common Tagalog term for freedmen, not for the royalty.[40] The maharlika were the largest sector of society, and included warriors, artisans, artists, and others.[41] Unlike the rulers, maharlika did not participate in politics.[42] In 1978, then-president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos supported a House Bill mandating the country's renaming to Mahárlika under military rule.[43] Marcos claimed that Mahárlika was the name of the guerilla force he allegedly led during World War II. This claim would later be disproven, as testified by an Army investigation which "found no foundation" for the late dictator's claims.[44] Eddie Ilarde, who filed the bill, wrongfully[45] stated that Maharlika connoted royalty and wrongfully translated the term as "nobly created".[45] In the book, "Vocabulario de la lengua tagala", the term translates into "alipin na itinuring na malaya" or "a slave that was treated as free".[46] Historians noted that in some accounts, the term means "big phallus" or "large male genitalia".[47][45] The bill did not pass since the term was seen by numerous ethnic groups as "imperial in nature".[39] The proposal was revived by populist president Rodrigo Duterte in February 2019,[48] but the name was dropped a month later.[49] The name change is still supported by the government, although a new name has yet to be determined.[49]
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 10, 2022, 08:00:05 pm
With each renaming, the US becomes less Western and more American:

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/22022.htm

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MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park announced today that Mount Doane is now named First Peoples Mountain. Today’s announcement follows a 15-0 vote affirming the change by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal body responsible for maintaining uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government.

First Peoples Mountain is a 10,551-foot peak within Yellowstone National Park east of Yellowstone Lake in the southeastern portion of the park. The peak was previously named after Gustavus Doane, a key member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition in 1870 prior to Yellowstone becoming America’s first national park. 

Research has shown that earlier that same year (1870), Doane led an attack, in response to the alleged murder of a white fur trader, on a band of Piegan Blackfeet. During what is now known as the Marias Massacre, at least 173 American Indians were killed, including many women, elderly Tribal members and children suffering from smallpox. Doane wrote fondly about this attack and bragged about it for the rest of his life.

Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 15, 2022, 09:08:36 pm
The most literal name decolonization of all:

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/george-washington-university-drops-colonials

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George Washington University’s sports teams will no longer be known as the Colonials.

The school said in an announcement Wednesday the school’s board of trustees and a special committee determined the name Colonials "can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies."
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"Colonials means colonizers who stole land and resources from Indigenous groups, killed or exiled Native peoples and introduced slavery into the colonies."

The committee said George Washington "firmly rejected" the term colonial, and the term itself "was not used during the 1607-1776 Colonial era, and it did not become popular until the Colonial Revival period of the late 19th and 20th centuries."

Yes, believe it or not, there was once a Colonial Revival movement by the anti-American Western occupiers of the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Revival_Movement

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The Colonial Revival is generally associated with the eighteenth-century provincial fashion for the Georgian and Neoclassical styles.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 24, 2022, 02:48:59 am
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/opinion/jlo-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck.html

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Why It Matters That J-Lo Is Now J-Aff
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given the cringe-y history behind the practice, a woman taking her husband’s last name feels to me like a submission — a gesture that doesn’t say “I belong with him” so much as “I belong to him.” And at this fraught moment for feminism in America, a woman like the former Jennifer Lopez deciding to change her name feels especially dispiriting.

Sure, taking your husband’s name might be a way of saying “this is for keeps.” But it is also a gesture inextricably rooted in peak patriarchy
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Dr. Rachael Robnett, an associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, told me in a telephone interview that it reflects “men’s greater status and power in relationships, and also in society.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname#Family_name_discrimination_against_women

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In England and cultures derived from there, there has long been a tradition for a woman to change her surname upon marriage from her birth name to her husband's family name. (See Maiden and married names.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_and_married_names

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"the custom of calling women Mrs. John This and Mrs. Tom That and colored men Sambo and Zip Coon, is founded on the principle that white men are lords of all."[34][35] Later, when addressing the judiciary committee of the state legislature of New York in 1860 in a speech called "A Slave's Appeal", she stated in part, "The negro [slave] has no name. He is Cuffy Douglas or Cuffy Brooks, just whose Cuffy he may chance to be. The woman has no name. She is Mrs. Richard Roe or Mrs. John Doe, just whose Mrs. she may chance to be."[36][37]

Similarly:

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Russia
There is a widespread, though not universal, custom for a newly married wife to adopt the husband's family name.

In contrast:

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China
Traditionally, unlike in Anglophon Western countries, a married woman keeps her name unchanged, without adopting her husband's surname.[66] ... Amongst the Chinese diaspora overseas, especially in Southeast Asia, women rarely legally adopt their spouse's surname.
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Iran
It became mandatory in 1918 to use surnames in Iran, and only in this time, the heads of families had the right to choose their family members' (including the wife) surname. It is stated in the article four of the law on Civil Registration in 1925, that "Everybody should choose his/her own name. The wife... maintains her family name that was called by."

so once again we confirm that Western civilization is more, not less, sexist than non-Western civilizations. Indeed Western colonialism is to blame for increasing the sexism among those whom they colonized, for example:

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Hong Kong
Due to British influence, some people in Hong Kong have also adopted the tradition of women changing their English last name

As for the US, those who resisted are the Americans (as opposed to Westerners), as they are in effect calling for the US to be less like Britain/Russia/etc., and more like China/Iran/etc.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone_League

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Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers.
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The League became so well known that a new term, Lucy Stoner, came into common use, meaning anyone who advocates that a wife be allowed to keep and use her own name. This term was eventually included in dictionaries.[6] Women who choose not to use their husbands' surnames have also been called Lucy Stoners.[7]

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-and-sexism/
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: Solar Guy on July 25, 2022, 05:07:35 am
In some non-Western countries like Burma there are no surnames at all.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 31, 2022, 05:58:18 pm
Finally more attention here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-aotearoa-the-campaign-to-decolonize-new-zealands-name-11658914200

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The first European contact with indigenous Māori ended with four sailors killed and a hasty retreat. But it led to an identity for this South Pacific country: Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch, or New Zealand when it later became part of the British Empire.

Now, some lawmakers want New Zealanders to drop a name that harks back to an era of colonization and adopt another—Aotearoa, a Māori word referring to the clouds that indigenous oral history says helped early Polynesian navigators make their way here.
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In New Zealand, the issue is coming to a head because a petition to rename the country Aotearoa—pronounced ‘au-te-a-ro-uh’—garnered more than 70,000 signatures and will be considered by a parliamentary committee that could recommend a vote in Parliament, put it to a referendum or take no further action.

“It’s a realignment to where we are as a nation,” said Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Māori Party, a small party in Parliament that supported the petition. “It’s nothing to be afraid of.”

Over several decades, Aotearoa has become more common in everyday speech. It appears on bank notes and passports, and is often in government documents, either alone or combined with New Zealand. When the U.S. and New Zealand issued a joint statement following a meeting of their leaders in May, it referred to Jacinda Ardern as prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand. Māori is one of three official languages in New Zealand but fluency has plummeted, a legacy of colonial-era policies that restricted its use.

Ms. Ardern welcomes the wider use of Aotearoa, but a formal name change isn’t being explored by the government, a spokeswoman for the prime minister said.
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Opinion polls suggest advocates of a new identity face an uphill battle. More than half of respondents want to keep New Zealand, according to one survey by market-research company Colmar Brunton. Still, Aotearoa alone or Aotearoa New Zealand command about a combined 40% support.

Everyone who wants to keep "New Zealand" should be treated the same way as those Dutch sailors mentioned in the first paragraph.

Those sailors were led by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman

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Abel Janszoon Tasman (Dutch: [ˈɑbəl ˈjɑnsoːn ˈtɑsmɑn]; 1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach New Zealand and the islands of Fiji and Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

which reminds us that "Tasmania" also needs to have its name changed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania#Toponymy

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In the reconstructed Palawa kani language, the main island of Tasmania is called lutruwita,[25]
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Tasmania is named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who made the first reported European sighting of the island on 24 November 1642.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 13, 2022, 11:21:28 pm
Good work:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/08/11/faneuil-hall-marketplace-boycott

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Activists stage sit-in to demand name change of Faneuil Hall Marketplace
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Peterson and more than two dozen people gathered in front of Boston City Hall to once again demand the name change because Peter Faneuil was a known enslaver. The merchant amassed his fortune in part by trafficking and selling human beings, according to the National Park Service. He was complicit in and benefited from a white supremacist system.
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“Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley often said that the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power,” Pierce said. “And so to me, that translates into making sure that the government does not have buildings, streets or anything that it's responsible for named after slavery or oppressive people.”
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"We mourn the countless hearts that were broken as human beings removed from their African homeland face lives of perpetual enslavement in a strange and hostile land,” Copeland said. “Those of us who are descendants continue to know that hostility and the denial of full citizenship. But we are brothers and sisters with our mind stayed on freedom. Understand that, we demand, we cannot ask for, we demand reparations, which begin with facing our history, bringing truth to light and correcting our wrongs.”
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Peterson said they were welcome there, a sign of support from the new administration under Mayor Michelle Wu.

The mayor’s office released this statement soon after the demonstration: "The City of Boston is recognized throughout the world for our role in this country's founding, but it is critical to acknowledge and address the role of slavery in our nation's founding and the deep inequities that remain today. As we work to build an equitable Boston for everyone, the city is committed to advancing racial justice and learning from our past and right wrongs."

For the record, Fanueil also financially supported Old World colonialism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Faneuil

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the enormous Faneuil fortune, which in addition to ships, shops, and a mansion in Tremont Street included £14,000 in East India Company stock.

therefore it is not only victims of the Transatlantic slave trade who should want his name removed, but all victims of Western colonialism.

If you ask me, why not just demolish the entire building? Especially given its thoroughly un-American architectural style (Georgian FFS!):

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Faneuil_Hall_Boston_Massachusetts.JPG/532px-Faneuil_Hall_Boston_Massachusetts.JPG)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 18, 2022, 04:34:50 pm
https://news.yahoo.com/patrick-henry-high-mpls-name-002700943.html

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Patrick Henry High School will be getting a new name, after the Minneapolis school board on Tuesday directed the school community to begin the name change process.

The school board's school names advisory committee, which was formed in 2020, had recommended a name change for the North Side high school because Patrick Henry — an 18th-century Virginia politician and leading proponent of independence before the Revolutionary War — owned enslaved people.

According to the resolution approved Tuesday, "students, staff, and community members recognize the need for a school name that better represents the values of the community."
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Two other schools in the district, Sheridan Elementary and Jefferson Elementary, were respectively renamed Las Estrellas and Ella Baker this year. The process to change those names began in 2020.

Sheridan was named for Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, a Civil War officer who led the relocation of Native Americans off the Great Plains and encouraged the extermination of buffalo. Jefferson was named for the founding father and third U.S. president who owned slaves.

Keep up the good work!

Rightists will never get it:

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Some school alumni vocally opposed the name change, arguing that it amounted to rewriting history

No. Rewriting history would be, for example, covering up the fact that Henry was a slave owner. We are doing the opposite.
Title: Re: Views towards America
Post by: antihellenistic on September 03, 2022, 07:55:41 pm
Why you still use term "America" to mention a territory on the "redskin" people. That name was founded by the people who made the categorization of the "redskin" people's territory more easily recognized for colonization. This is the origin of the invention of term "America" :

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Etymology_and_naming

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The name "America" was first recorded in 1507. A two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term.[14] The name was also used (together with the related term Amerigen) in the Cosmographiae Introductio, apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, in reference to South America.[15] It was applied to both North and South America by Gerardus Mercator in 1538. "America" derives from Americus, the Latin version of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's first name. The feminine form America accorded with the feminine names of Asia, Africa, and Europa.[16]
Title: Re: Re: Views towards America
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 03, 2022, 08:00:34 pm
We sorted this out ages ago:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/msg5614/#msg5614
Title: Re: Re: Views towards America
Post by: SirGalahad on September 04, 2022, 12:25:27 am
Some Native Americans call North America "Turtle Island". But it seems too clunky as the formal name of a nation, and it's limited in scope since it usually only refers to North America specifically. "America" and "Atlantis" work better for propagandistic purposes and they're more future proof, since the concept of America or Atlantis could encapsulate all of the Americas/the New World. Turtle Island is a nice name colloquially, though
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 04, 2022, 06:34:32 am
I suspect that the name Turtle Island is a recent innovation masquerading as an ancient name rather than something authentically predating the colonial era. If Turtle Island refers to North America only, that would require (in order for "Island" to be accurate) North America to be separated from South America by seawater, which was not the case prior to the Panama Canal (built during the colonial era). But if Turtle Island refers to North and South America combined, there is no indication that any pre-colonial travellers journeyed the entire circumference of the landmass, which is what would be required to ascertain that it is indeed an island. On these grounds I rarely use this name.

Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: SirGalahad on September 04, 2022, 11:01:01 pm
"Turtle Island" being used to refer to North America is almost certainly a post-colonial innovation. But in defense of the name, the original folklore it comes from, used the name to refer to earth as a whole, or more specifically, land (as opposed to water). I think that this broader and older meaning is more reasonable for what their level of knowledge of geography would've been at the time
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 11, 2022, 08:24:29 pm
Another country that needs renaming which we had previously missed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda

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The island of Antigua was originally called Wadadli by Arawaks and is locally known by that name today; Caribs possibly called Barbuda Wa'omoni. Christopher Columbus, while sailing by in 1493, may have named it Santa Maria la Antigua, after an icon in the Spanish Seville Cathedral. The "bearded" of Barbuda is thought to refer either to the male inhabitants of the island, or the bearded fig trees present there.[19]

I was reminded of it by this article:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/caribbean-nation-vote-removing-king-101858703.html

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Antigua and Barbuda, a commonwealth country and former colony of the British empire, will hold a referendum on becoming a republic and removing King Charles III as the head of state, its prime minister announced.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne told the UK's ITV: "This is a matter that has to be taken to a referendum for the people to decide."

"This is not an act of hostility or any difference between Antigua and Barbuda and the monarchy, but it is the final step to complete that circle of independence, to ensure that we are truly a sovereign nation."

No, removing Charles as head of state is not even close to the "final step". You have to rename the country itself. Also, you have to stop doing uniquely Western things like "hold a referendum" and "becoming a republic". Why not re-install pre-colonial monarchies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacique

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The Taíno word kasike descends from the Taíno word kassiquan, which means "to keep house".[5]
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Most importantly, the kasike's word was law and they exercised this power to oversee a sophisticated government, finely involved with all aspects of social existence.[9]

Additionally, Browne needs to stop wearing Western clothes:

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/9qDBGwSwS8fNIKKRPl_CEA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcyMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AwVQmYZOl2qFG0oeTBU5CA--~B/aD0zNDU5O3c9NDYxMjthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/insider_articles_922/e0b0ece1068b1c6d2b0e062c8a0c6abc)

(https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of-free-failing-clipart.png)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 27, 2022, 05:53:19 pm
More success:

https://apnews.com/article/california-kamala-harris-san-francisco-gavin-newsom-native-americans-a198e76b8cb588d3af1f0d68fcec363f

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A prominent law school in San Francisco named for a 19th century rancher who sponsored deadly atrocities against Native Americans has a new name after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation approving the change.
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The University of California’s Hastings College of the Law will be known as the College of the Law, San Francisco.
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The school was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, a wealthy rancher and former chief justice of the California Supreme Court who helped orchestrate and finance campaigns by white settlers in Mendocino County to kill and enslave members of the Yuki Indian tribe.

The legislation also lays out restorative justice initiatives to be pursued by the college, such as renaming a law library with a Native language name, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

Newsom also signed legislation to remove an offensive term for a Native American woman from all geographic features and place names in the state. The U.S. government has removed the offensive term from nearly 650 geographic features, renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands.

Hastings was previously mentioned here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/how-did-the-english-colonize-america/msg15273/#msg15273
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 10, 2022, 06:23:48 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11292687/US-Army-rename-nine-forts-named-Confederate-generals-cost-63-million.html

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The US Department of Defense has announced it will rename the nine US military bases that bear named of officers of the Confederacy.
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The nine Army bases that will soon bear new names are Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Fort Polk, Louisiana; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett, and Fort Lee in Virginia.
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Former President Donald Trump previously took a strong stance against the idea of renaming Confederate bases, going so far as to threaten to veto the Defense Spending bill in order to prevent the move from happening.

In 2020, he pushed Congressional Republicans to refrain from voting for an amendment introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to strip the bases of their Confederate monikers.

Let's keep up the momentum!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2022, 04:33:43 pm
Not an improvement:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/07/fort-gordon-confederate-eisenhower-augusta-national/

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Congress directed the Pentagon to abolish all remaining vestiges of the military’s Confederate heritage, and rebrand its nine bases that continue to honor enslavers and secessionists such as Fort Gordon’s namesake.
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In the end, however, the commission chose to go in another direction entirely and rename the base after Eisenhower — bypassing the five Black candidates and other groundbreaking people of color.

That idea gained traction only after last-minute lobbying from some of the meeting’s attendees, according to people familiar with the gathering. Jim Clifford, city administrator for neighboring North Augusta, recalled someone suggesting Eisenhower would be a more desirable alternative and then “pretty much everyone else piled onto that.”

The unexpected outcome has both perplexed and rankled others who believe the selection of a prestigious White man is at best a missed opportunity, and at worst a failure of the renaming commission’s goal to not merely kill off the military’s racist relics but to elevate minorities in the process. Detractors say it looks like a bid to capitalize on Eisenhower’s association with Augusta National, a longtime symbol of racial division that did not admit its first Black member until 1990, nearly six decades after the golf course opened.

Eisenhower was also a Confederacy sympathizer, as we noted here:

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/our-enemies-admit-national-socialism-is-incompatible-with-the-confederacy/

But even if he wasn't, Operation Wetback alone should forever disqualify him from being celebrated:

https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Dwight_Eisenhower_Immigration.htm

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In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower launched Operation Wetback, a shameful initiative to remove (often violently) thousands of undocumented workers--mostly Mexican nationals. In what has been described as a "quasi-military operation", border patrol agents, along with state and local law enforcement methodically targeted Mexican-Americans. The result was widespread fear and abuse.

It is estimated that 4,800 people were apprehended on the first day of the military operation. In the end, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) claimed as many as 1,300,000 were deported--many on their own out of fear. There were reports of beatings. Hundreds of families were torn apart.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 11, 2022, 04:10:11 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/school-named-violent-white-supremacist-100010871.html

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Two days after a tightly contested election in the fall of 1898, a white supremacist mob descended on Wilmington, North Carolina — a Southern oasis of Black prosperity during the Reconstruction era — to take back the city from “Negro rule.”

The rioters razed long-standing Black businesses, burned down the city’s only Black newspaper, and overthrew a mixed-race, democratically elected city council in what is considered the only successful coup in American history.

More than a century after scores of Black residents were killed in the insurrection, Wilmington named an elementary school after one of its ringleaders: Walter L. Parsley.

No one protested when school board members approved Parsley’s name in 1999, and the tribute survived for 21 years. But by summer 2020, local activists had connected the name to one of the coup’s leaders, stirring fury and a petition drive to change it.
...
What happened in Wilmington in 1898?

In the nights leading up the 1898 statewide elections, Parsley and eight other co-conspirators planned the government takeover at his Market Street home, according to a 1936 pamphlet by local journalist Harry Hayden.

As reporters at the local Black newspaper — the Daily Record — began writing up election results on Nov. 10, 1898, exactly 124 years ago, about 500 white businessmen and Civil War veterans, armed with rifles and racial animosity, barged into the paper’s headquarters and set the building ablaze. The insurrection then swelled to 2,000-strong across town, as the attackers spread now-debunked rumors that Black journalists had fired first.

But the coup wasn’t discussed much otherwise or a regular part of history lessons. On purpose.
...
So as Confederate monuments fell like dominoes nationwide, all remained quiet in Wilmington, until a petition in June 2020 to rename the school drew more than 2,500 signatures.

That was the trigger. The following month, an unknown perpetrator vandalized a sign at the entrance to then-Parsley school. In bold red spray paint, the message read: “Rem[em]ber 1898, change the name” on one side, and “BLM” on the other, with a giant “X” through Parsley’s name.

Local civil rights organizations began to rally around name changes — both for the Parsley school and for Hugh MacRae Park, which was named for another architect of the massacre.

“For a young black child to go to a school that was named after someone who imposed a massacre killing black people, that has a psychological effect,” Sonya Patrick-AmenRa, an organizer for Wilmington’s Black Lives Matter chapter, told Port City Daily.

Thank you BLM!

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But for all of the fervor around name changes in Wilmington, racial tension still pervades the city and the school system. Black residents say they still feel the sting of 1898, which significantly reduced the city’s Black population and wiped out the thriving business class.

New Hanover County Schools remain among the most segregated school districts in the country. What used to be Parsley Elementary is more than 80% white and stands down the street from a row of multi-million dollar houses, while schools only a few miles away educate mostly minority students from lower-income families.

For Maxwell, the NAACP chapter president, the name changes are a step in the right direction, but merely one step toward true racial justice.

You will need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 19, 2022, 07:14:49 pm
Not an improvement:

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2022/12/fairfax-co-officially-renames-lee-district-in-a-move-away-from-confederate-past/

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The Fairfax, Virginia, County Board of Supervisors officially renamed the Lee District as the Franconia District on Tuesday.
...
The renaming is the latest action to strip the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from locations around the county. In June 2020, the Fairfax County School Board renamed Lee High School after the late civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
...
Many Black and African American residents voiced their concerns of how the long-stay of the name continues a legacy of a time where people were seen as property or a commodity. The name change offers these residents a peace of mind, knowing they can raise their children to be proud residents of “Franconia” and not a township that honors a slaveowner.
...
    Lee District Rec Center will be known as the Franconia Rec Center.
    Lee District Park is now called Franconia District Park.
    Lee Residential Permit Parking District is now the Lewis Parking District.
    Lee Community Parking District is now the Franconia Parking District.

Franconia?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia#History

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Franconia is named after the Franks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks#History

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the military practices of the Frankish nation in the 6th century and have even been extrapolated to the entire period preceding Charles Martel's reforms

Why can't people do their homework FFS?!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 11, 2023, 07:12:09 pm
Success:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/10/sir-francis-drake-primary-school-renamed-following-black-lives/

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Sir Francis Drake Primary School will be renamed in light of the seaman’s “slave trade links”.

The famed navigator became an English national hero for helping to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, but his legacy was reassessed following Black Lives Matter protests, and his connections to slavery have made him a contentious figure.

The Sir Francis Drake school in south London will be renamed “Twin Oaks Primary”, its headteacher has announced, informing parents:  “The slave trade links associated with the current name sat at odds with the values of our school.”
...
Drake was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1581 having inflicted a series of naval defeats on the Spanish in the Americas and circumnavigated the globe, but before these exploits he took part in voyages with his cousin Sir John Hawkins which saw the capture of black African slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake#Slave_trade

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Between 1560 and 1568 Drake served as a seaman on a series of voyages on the ships of his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, with whom he had been brought up.[22][19] On these voyages Hawkins is widely acknowledged to have begun the English slave trade. The West African slave trade was at this time a Portuguese and Spanish monopoly, but John Hawkins devised a plan to break into that trade, and in 1562, enlisted the aid of colleagues and family to finance his first slave voyage.[23] Drake, 12 years junior to Hawkins, was part of the crew and is mentioned by name in the records.[19][better source needed] They carried slaves, cloth, manufactured goods and contraband.[24]

For his second slave voyage Hawkins gained Queen Elizabeth I's support, she allowed him to charter one of her ships, Jesus of Lübeck, and the rest of his needed capital came from a consortium of investors from her court.[25] Drake was twenty (circa 1563–1564),[20][26] and not a member of that consortium but the crew would have received a share in the profits.[27][28] Based on this association, scholar Kris Lane lists Drake as one of the first English slave traders.[29]

The Spanish and Portuguese were aggrieved that the English had entered into the slave trade and were selling slaves to their colonies, despite being forbidden from doing so. Queen Elizabeth I, under pressure to avoid an armed conflict, forbade Hawkins from going to sea for a third slave voyage. In response he set up a new slave voyage with a relative of his, John Lovell, in command.[25] Drake accompanied Lovell on this voyage.[25] In 1566–1567, Lovell attacked Portuguese settlements and slave ships on the coast of West Africa and then sailed to the Americas and sold the captured cargoes of enslaved Africans onto Spanish plantations.[30] The voyage was unsuccessful and more than 90 enslaved Africans were released without payment.[31][32]

Drake accompanied Hawkins on his next slave voyage. The crew attempted to capture and kidnap the inhabitants of a village near Cape Verde, but had to retreat. Hawkins recruited a local king in Sierra Leone to help him forcibly kidnap people, capturing and enslaving over 500 people before setting sail for the Spanish West Indies.[33]
...
In the Magellan Strait Francis and his men engaged in skirmish with local indigenous people, becoming the first Europeans to kill indigenous peoples in southern Patagonia.[56]
...
Drake became a member of parliament again in 1584 for Bossiney[13] on the forming of the 5th Parliament of Elizabeth I.[93] He served the duration of the parliament and was active in issues regarding the navy, fishing, early American colonisation, and issues related chiefly to Devon.

Other successes in removing his name:

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Several landmarks in northern California were named after Drake, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing into the 20th century. American historian Richard White has claimed that these commemorations have origins in Anglo-Saxonism,[115] a racist ideology that was variously used to justify manifest destiny, imperialism, slavery, nativism, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.[116] Public scrutiny of these memorials intensified after the murder of George Floyd, when protests against police brutality and racism drew critical attention to place names and monuments connected to white supremacy. Several California landmarks that commemorated Drake were removed or renamed. Citing Drake's associations with the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and piracy,[117][118] Sir Francis Drake High School, in San Anselmo, California, changed its name to Archie Williams High School, after former teacher and Olympic athlete Archie Williams. A statue of Drake in Larkspur, California was also removed by the city authorities.[119][120] Multiple jurisdictions in Marin County considered renaming Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, one of its major thoroughfares, but left the name intact when they failed to reach a consensus.[121] In San Francisco, the Sir Francis Drake Hotel was renamed the Beacon Grand Hotel.[122]
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 19, 2023, 02:04:07 pm
Our enemies report on our success replacing a Western colonialist with an American:

https://vdare.com/posts/pathfinder-of-the-seas-matthew-maury-not-acceptable-for-today-s-navy-annapolis-s-maury-hall-renamed-for-jimmy-carter

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(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/59428/VDARE-maury.jpg)
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Matthew Fontaine Maury has been called the ”Pathfinder of the Seas,” ”Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology” and ”Scientist of the Seas.” According to Wikipedia, ”[Maury] published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean’s currents and winds to their advantage, drastically reducing the length of ocean voyages. Maury’s uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.”

So Maury is very important in the history of navigation, which ought to be important to the U.S. Navy.

But the Pathfinder of the Seas wasn't woke enough for today's Navy.

It doesn’t matter what Maury accomplished and how it benefited the world, because he served as an envoy of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Yes. Carter, in contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

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The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. He and his family had become staunch John F. Kennedy supporters. Carter remained relatively quiet on the issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues.
...
Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time of racial discrimination is over",[65] shocking the crowd and causing many of the segregationists who had supported Carter during the race to feel betrayed.
...
Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black state employees and portraits of three prominent black Georgians[which?] to the capitol building, angering the Ku Klux Klan.[77]
...
Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.[205] After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to share military intelligence.[206] In January 1980, Carter unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (ROC), which had lost control of mainland China to the PRC in 1949, but retained control the island of Taiwan.
...
During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea
...
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan.[237][239] These concerns led to Carter expanding collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which began several months earlier when the CIA started providing some $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen in July 1979.[240]
...
on December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan," and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation."[240]
...
Carter has expressed no regrets over his decision to support what he still considers the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan.[239]
...
Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.[198]
...
Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or controlling the other."[397] In remarks broadcast over radio, Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:[398]

    "When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."[398]

Here is a rabbi on Carter:

https://observer.com/2014/08/the-moral-disintegration-of-jimmy-carter/

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Mr. Carter always subscribed to what my friend Michael Scroccaro calls ‘Underdogma,’ a knew-jerk reaction to champion the cause of the underdog however immoral the party. Poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness. So, if the Israelis have jets and the Palestinians only rockets then that must necessarily mean that the Israelis are the aggressor.

Mr. Carter’s underdog obsession is what motivated him to legitimize Fidel Castro and take his side in a bio-weapons dispute with the United States and to praise North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung with the words: “I find him to be vigorous, intelligent,…and in charge of the decisions about this country.”
...
Carter told Haitian dictator Raul Cédras that he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country,” which made most Americans ashamed of Jimmy Carter.
...
Carter’s nonstop criticism of Israel and his emergence – in the words of Alan Dershowitz – as a “cheerleader” for Hamas has confirmed in the minds of many that Carter has more than a bit of a problem with the Jewish state.

Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed  this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to “powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.

Here’s a priceless clip of Jimmy Carter on the Today Show.

Do you believe Hamas can be trusted?

Yes, I do.


Perhaps the clincher is Mr. Carter’s pronouncement that “the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank.” According to Carter, Palestinian terrorism, Iranian nukes, tyrannical Arab governments, and murderous Islamist religious militancy are not the causes for Middle East conflict. No, it’s the Jews.

The rabbi's words are the best testimony for Carter deserving American naval buildings named after him.

(https://news.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/A250_Jimmy_Carter-scaled.jpg)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 28, 2023, 06:51:05 pm
An important symbolic victory:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11799669/New-York-City-block-Harlem-anti-semitic-Nation-Islam-leader-Elijah-Muhammed.html

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NYC will name Harlem block after anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad who taught that 'the white man is the devil' - as council member claims 'it's important not to erase black leaders who are not pleasing to white people'

Including not pleasing to Jews.

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The Anti-Defamation League called the Nation of Islam the largest Black nationalist organization in the US and accused it of maintaining a 'consistent record of antisemitism and bigotry since its founding in the 1930s'.

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/droptheadl/

"They profess to be a friend and defenders of all peace-loving and freedom-loving people. The only people we really see that they want to be friends of are themselves and their kind. They are really sincere when they say that they are freedom-loving people. Above all, the White man the world over wants to be free to rule and dominate the aboriginal people." - Elijah Muhammad

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Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 24, 2023, 05:52:26 pm
Our enemies report on another of our sucesses:

https://vdare.com/articles/the-great-replacement-comes-for-boalt-hall-hastings-school-of-law-and-anglo-america

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Boalt Hall is no more! They pulled the signage off the school three years ago, and now the school goes by the nondescript moniker of "UC Berkeley School of Law," or some variant thereof.

The reason for the name change is that the school now has a lot of  "Asian" students, and old Mr. John Henry Boalt is partly blamed for the anti-Chinese immigration campaign back in the 1870s. Boalt once had the audacity to deliver a speech called "The Chinese Question" [PDF] a long-forgotten essay that he read out before the Berkeley Club in 1877. It was later read on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and is said to have contributed to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act a few years later (1882).

The speech:

https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/the_chinese_question-_a_paper_read_by_john_boalt_before_the_berkeley_club.pdf

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The Chinaman differs from us in color, in features, and
in size. His contact excites in us, or at least in most of us, an uncon-
querable repulsion which it seeems to me must ever prevent any
intimate association or miscegenation of the races. To this must be
added that the difference in physical peculiarities makes the more
conspicuous the many and radical divergencies which. otherwise
exist. Second, the two races are also separated by a remarkable
divergence in intellectual character and disposition. Our habits of
thought are so entirely different that it seems impossible that they
should ever become reconciled.
...
He is generally
honest, it is true, but the most prominent Chinese merchant in San
Francisco admitted that his race was honest simply because it was
the best policy, and for no other reason. Now a man who is honest
from the mere force of logic, simply because honesty is generally the
best policy, must inevitably be dishonest in the exceptional case
when dishonesty is the best policy
.

Not only should Boalt Hall be renamed, but John Boalt should be renamed Karen Boalt.

Next, the argument that Chinese are inferior because they are less wasteful (yes, really):

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The Chinaman in
America cannot comprehend that there is plenty of space. He has
formed a habit of making himself compact and economizing his
room. A hundred Chiniamen are quite content in a house not big
enough for ten of our own race. Their type of a sleeping chamber
is a sardine box.
...
It is no argument to tell the American laborer that
if he would live as the Chinaman lives he might subsist on the
Chinaman's wages.
It has taken the Chinaman centuries to learn to live on so little.
With the lapse of time his necessities have gradually accommodated
themselves to his small earnings, until now very little suffices to pro-
cure him abundance. He has made a prodigious stride toward the
ideal ration of a straw per day. Early education and constant habit
have so led him to practice the closest economy, that economy has
itself become a habit and no longer involves self-denial.
...
we have taught each other habits that are expensive.
We have led each other to believe that it is a good thing to promote
schools and educate children, to contribute to churches and give to
hospitals, to eat clean food and wear clean clothes. We have encour-
aged each other to think that overcrowding leads to immorality, that
plenty of air and sunlight are necessaries of life

...
Until it is changed, the Chinaman will always beat us in
a competition where the frugal habits he learned in China are pitted
against the habits we learned in America. Under the circumstances
it is no more surprising that a Chinaman can live cheaper than an
American than it is that a horse can.

Can you guess whom else Boalt dislikes?

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It did so happen that until the Chinese invasion, the class of immi-
grants who came to our shores were, with one exception, welcome
visitors. They were of races and nationalities with which we were
in perfect concord and with whom we could readily assimilate. We
needed them; they came, and twenty-five years after they came,
almost all evidence of their foreign birth had disappeared. They
had become thoroughly assimilated to us, and amalgamated with us,
and were as much Americanized as if born on the soil.
But there was one exception. That exception was the African
Negro.
His coming was bitterly regretted by every one of our early
statesmen who ever spoke of it. If you doubt this, examine the
list of members of the African Colonization Society. The pages
shine with eminent names. But the negro did come, and we just
barely survived his coming. Is it worth while to repeat the mistake?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on March 25, 2023, 09:08:02 am
An important symbolic victory:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11799669/New-York-City-block-Harlem-anti-semitic-Nation-Islam-leader-Elijah-Muhammed.html

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NYC will name Harlem block after anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad who taught that 'the white man is the devil' - as council member claims 'it's important not to erase black leaders who are not pleasing to white people'

Including not pleasing to Jews.

Quote
The Anti-Defamation League called the Nation of Islam the largest Black nationalist organization in the US and accused it of maintaining a 'consistent record of antisemitism and bigotry since its founding in the 1930s'.

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/droptheadl/

"They profess to be a friend and defenders of all peace-loving and freedom-loving people. The only people we really see that they want to be friends of are themselves and their kind. They are really sincere when they say that they are freedom-loving people. Above all, the White man the world over wants to be free to rule and dominate the aboriginal people." - Elijah Muhammad

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Didn't this guy order Malcolm X's assassination and father children with multiple women?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on March 25, 2023, 09:12:23 am
Our enemies report on our success replacing a Western colonialist with an American:

https://vdare.com/posts/pathfinder-of-the-seas-matthew-maury-not-acceptable-for-today-s-navy-annapolis-s-maury-hall-renamed-for-jimmy-carter

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(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/59428/VDARE-maury.jpg)
...
Matthew Fontaine Maury has been called the ”Pathfinder of the Seas,” ”Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology” and ”Scientist of the Seas.” According to Wikipedia, ”[Maury] published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean’s currents and winds to their advantage, drastically reducing the length of ocean voyages. Maury’s uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.”

So Maury is very important in the history of navigation, which ought to be important to the U.S. Navy.

But the Pathfinder of the Seas wasn't woke enough for today's Navy.

It doesn’t matter what Maury accomplished and how it benefited the world, because he served as an envoy of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Yes. Carter, in contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

Quote
The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. He and his family had become staunch John F. Kennedy supporters. Carter remained relatively quiet on the issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues.
...
Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time of racial discrimination is over",[65] shocking the crowd and causing many of the segregationists who had supported Carter during the race to feel betrayed.
...
Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black state employees and portraits of three prominent black Georgians[which?] to the capitol building, angering the Ku Klux Klan.[77]
...
Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.[205] After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to share military intelligence.[206] In January 1980, Carter unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (ROC), which had lost control of mainland China to the PRC in 1949, but retained control the island of Taiwan.
...
During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea
...
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan.[237][239] These concerns led to Carter expanding collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which began several months earlier when the CIA started providing some $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen in July 1979.[240]
...
on December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan," and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation."[240]
...
Carter has expressed no regrets over his decision to support what he still considers the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan.[239]
...
Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.[198]
...
Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or controlling the other."[397] In remarks broadcast over radio, Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:[398]

    "When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."[398]

Here is a rabbi on Carter:

https://observer.com/2014/08/the-moral-disintegration-of-jimmy-carter/

Quote
Mr. Carter always subscribed to what my friend Michael Scroccaro calls ‘Underdogma,’ a knew-jerk reaction to champion the cause of the underdog however immoral the party. Poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness. So, if the Israelis have jets and the Palestinians only rockets then that must necessarily mean that the Israelis are the aggressor.

Mr. Carter’s underdog obsession is what motivated him to legitimize Fidel Castro and take his side in a bio-weapons dispute with the United States and to praise North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung with the words: “I find him to be vigorous, intelligent,…and in charge of the decisions about this country.”
...
Carter told Haitian dictator Raul Cédras that he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country,” which made most Americans ashamed of Jimmy Carter.
...
Carter’s nonstop criticism of Israel and his emergence – in the words of Alan Dershowitz – as a “cheerleader” for Hamas has confirmed in the minds of many that Carter has more than a bit of a problem with the Jewish state.

Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed  this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to “powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.

Here’s a priceless clip of Jimmy Carter on the Today Show.

Do you believe Hamas can be trusted?

Yes, I do.


Perhaps the clincher is Mr. Carter’s pronouncement that “the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank.” According to Carter, Palestinian terrorism, Iranian nukes, tyrannical Arab governments, and murderous Islamist religious militancy are not the causes for Middle East conflict. No, it’s the Jews.

The rabbi's words are the best testimony for Carter deserving American naval buildings named after him.

(https://news.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/A250_Jimmy_Carter-scaled.jpg)
He also gave the WWII 763rd Tank Battalion (all-'Black' battalion) a Presidential Unit Citation. Looks like my hunch about him was correct.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 25, 2023, 05:20:29 pm
"Malcolm X"

There are already plenty of places named after Malcolm X:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Memorials_and_tributes

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In cities across the United States, Malcolm X's birthday (May 19) is commemorated as Malcolm X Day. The first known celebration of Malcolm X Day took place in Washington, D.C., in 1971.[337] The city of Berkeley, California, has recognized Malcolm X's birthday as a citywide holiday since 1979.[338]

Many cities have renamed streets after Malcolm X. In 1987, New York mayor Ed Koch proclaimed Lenox Avenue in Harlem to be Malcolm X Boulevard.[339] The name of Reid Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, was changed to Malcolm X Boulevard in 1985.[340][341] Brooklyn also has El Shabazz Playground that was named after him.[342] New Dudley Street, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, was renamed Malcolm X Boulevard in the 1990s.[343] In 1997, Oakland Avenue in Dallas, Texas, was renamed Malcolm X Boulevard.[344] Main Street in Lansing, Michigan, was renamed Malcolm X Street in 2010.[345] In 2016, Ankara, Turkey, renamed the street on which the U.S. is building its new embassy after Malcolm X.[346][347][Q]

Dozens of schools have been named after Malcolm X, including Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey,[349] Malcolm Shabazz City High School in Madison, Wisconsin,[350] Malcolm X College in Chicago, Illinois,[351] and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Academy in Lansing, Michigan.[352] Malcolm X Liberation University, based on the Pan-Africanist ideas of Malcolm X, was founded in 1969 in North Carolina.[353]

In 1996, the first library named after Malcolm X was opened, the Malcolm X Branch Library and Performing Arts Center of the San Diego Public Library system.[354]

I never said any of these should be renamed after Elijah Muhammad instead.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on March 26, 2023, 12:35:50 pm
Personally, I don't think anything should be named after Elijah Muhammad after what he did.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 26, 2023, 06:07:09 pm
So you agree with the ADL.....
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on March 30, 2023, 03:00:01 pm
Do they presume Elijah Muhammad had a hand in Malcolm's death?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2023, 02:38:38 pm
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-china-sea-beijing-opens-093000917.html

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South China Sea: Beijing opens hotpot restaurant on Woody Island in disputed Paracels chain
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Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, is the largest outcrop in the group of about 30 islands making up the Paracels. Called Xisha in Chinese
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Beijing has also artificially built-up and heavily militarised the Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands

A lot of Western colonial names here that must be cease to be used ASAP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands

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The Amphitrite group was named after the French frigate Amphitrite
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The islands were first scientifically surveyed by Daniel Ross of the British East India Company in 1808.[38] The names of Duncan, Drummond, Money, Pattle and Roberts islands were all chosen in honor of senior figures in the East India Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands

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Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain Richard Spratly

etc.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 12, 2023, 06:01:09 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12069671/Fort-Hood-officially-changes-Fort-Cavazos.html

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Texas Army base Fort Hood has officially changed its name to Fort Cavazos as part of the US Army's ongoing effort to rename a handful of bases that currently carry the names of Confederate officers.

On Tuesday, the US Army formally changed the name of the base to honor General Richard Edward Cavazos, a four-star general who fought in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.

This is only a marginal improvement. Neither the Korean nor the Vietnam war should have been fought by the US. Why not name the base after someone who participated in bombing Serbia instead?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 2ThaSun on June 18, 2023, 02:56:53 pm
The U.S. Army renames a base in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black WWI hero
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Louisiana's Fort Polk became the latest U.S. Army installation to shed its Confederate namesake on Tuesday when it was officially renamed Fort Johnson after a Black World War I hero.

The base now honors Sgt. William Henry Johnson, whose actions on the front lines in France earned him the nickname Black Death during his lifetime and a posthumous Medal of Honor nearly a century later.

"The Warrior Spirit that burned with in Sgt. William Henry Johnson now inspires generations of Soldiers — Soldiers that will now call JRTC and Fort Johnson home and Soldiers that will continue to come here from all over the nation and the world to train," said Brig. Gen. David Gardner, commanding general of Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Johnson, in a Facebook post.

Johnson's courage became the stuff of legend after the night of May 15, 1918, when he nearly single-handedly stopped German forces from approaching the main French line and taking his fellow soldier prisoner in the process.

He maintained a fierce defense during the surprise attack, continuing to fight even after being injured by enemy fire and running out of ammunition. Johnson turned to hand-to-hand combat and his bolo knife, eventually killing four German troops and wounding between 10 and 20 others, according to the National Museum of the United States Army.

"By the time what a reporter called 'The Battle of Henry Johnson' was over, Johnson had been wounded 21 times and had become the first American hero of World War I," says the U.S. Department of Defense...
Entire article: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182155304/fort-polk-renamed-william-henry-johnson-black-wwi-hero
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: guest98 on June 23, 2023, 03:42:19 pm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-sir-john-a-macdonald-parkway-renaming-1.6884063

Ottawa's Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway renamed Kichi Zībī Mīkan

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The National Capital Commission (NCC) board of directors voted Thursday to rename the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway as Kichi Zībī Mīkan.

The Ottawa River Parkway was renamed in 2012 after Canada's first prime minister, who oversaw the centralization and expansion of the country's residential school system.

Indigenous people have called for a new name for years. Ottawa city councillors along the roadway joined them in 2021 and in January of this year, the NCC's board voted to change the name.

Earlier this month, its CEO said the new name was chosen after consulting Algonquin people.

Mīkan, pronounced MEE-khan, is an Algonquin word meaning road or path. Kichi Zībī means great river and is the Algonquin name for what would later be called the Ottawa River.

The name change is effective immediately, according to NCC media relations. Signs will be changed and staff told board members Thursday the name will be officially unveiled at an event on Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Albert Dumont, an Algonquin spiritual advisor from Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg First Nation north of Ottawa, has been one of the leading advocates for changing the name and organized a protest about it on Sept. 30 last year.

He said earlier this week it's going to feel good hearing the replacement.

"My heart will be glad every time," he told the CBC's Hallie Cotnam.

Macdonald's government enforced policies that starved Indigenous people to force them from their land and outlawed their ceremonies.

It also centralized and expanded a residential school system that took generations of children from their families and tried to wipe out their cultures. There was widespread abuse and thousands of children were killed, with trauma still being felt today.

"Understand what Macdonald wanted to do to the Indigenous peoples: he wanted them to disappear and his laws and policies are clear on that," Dumont said.

"He is guilty of genocide. People need to think about that and process it."

Dumont said there are people who disagree with changing the name.

"You can't compare a name disappearing from a roadway to him doing everything he possibly could to make a people disappear."

Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 27, 2023, 02:14:34 pm
Thank you!

https://www.kcra.com/article/3-sacramento-schools-wont-be-named-after-racist-historical-figures-anymore-district-says/44321366#

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Three Sacramento schools are getting new names as part of a rebrand away from the racist historical California figures they were named after, the Sacramento City Unified School District said.

SCUSD's board voted Thursday to rename Sutter Middle School, Peter Burnett Elementary School and Kit Carson International Academy, with the three being schools viewed as having “the most egregious school names,” according to the district.
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Sutter Middle School will be renamed Miwok Middle School in honor of the Miwok people who lived in the region when Europeans came to California.

Peter Burnett will be renamed Suy:u Elementary, which is pronounced: “suu you.” Suy: u is the Miwok name for "hawk." The name was inspired by recommendations from the school’s students and community members to call the school Red Tail Hawk Elementary.

Kit Carson is being renamed Umoja International Academy in a tribute to the first principal of Kwanzaa to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
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As part of the proposal, members of the renaming committee produced short biographical profiles about Sutter, Carson and Burnett’s racist and exploitative behavior and a list of sources by historians.

“Sutter enslaved Native peoples by making war on local tribes, which provided him with a steady source of free labor for his enterprises as well as a source of income by which to reduce his debts through the sale of orphaned children,” the Sutter bio says.

The bio notes that some Miwok and Nisenan residents were drawn to his trading post for security, but then after beginning working for him, “the threat of violence prevented indigenous people from leaving, which meant their permanent enslavement.”

The section on Carson links the famous trapper and guide to the ambush of a village on the Sacramento River that killed several hundred people.

“Serving as Colonel John C. Frémont’s scout in California, in 1846 Kit Carson and Frémont’s men destroyed a village on the Sacramento River with artillery and rifle fire and then descended upon the village with swords, pistols, axes, and knives,” the bio says. “Anyone attempting to escape was chased down and murdered by mounted soldiers wielding Tomahawks.”

Carson later commanded an expedition against the Navajo, who refused removal to reservations.

That expedition “killed all Navajo men wherever they were found, burned crops, destroyed villages, slaughtered livestock,” among other actions.

Burnett, California’s first governor, is noted for first becoming the supreme judge of Oregon’s territorial government and advocating “for the total exclusion of all African Americans from the territory.”

He became known for authoring what was called “Burnett’s lash law,” which allowed the beating of any free Black people who refused to leave the territory.

The bio said that Burnett owned two slaves that he kept in California and also advocated for exclusion once he moved to the Golden State.

“Regarding California’s tribal communities, Burnett gave state money to local militias to exterminate the indigenous peoples and worked with the U.S. government to obtain the resources needed to carry out this genocide,” the bio says.

At last, it's not OK for school names to be "white"!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 22, 2023, 04:57:55 pm
Work continues:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/bigot-racist-democrat-pushes-strip-171601149.html

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Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, introduced a resolution on Friday calling on Congress' upper chamber to wipe the name of the late Sen. Richard Russell off the Russell Senate Office Building. The Georgia Democrat was a staunch opponent of de-segregation and the Civil Rights Movement during his nearly four decades in the Senate.

"I marvel at how we have arrived in the year 2023, and we have a building on this campus, named after a person who was a White supremacist, a person who fought against anti-lynching laws, a person who fought integration, a person who was a segregationist," Green fumed on the House floor in late July. "And we, people of color, tolerate it."

About Russell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Russell_Jr.#Legacy

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Russell was seen as a hero by many of the pro Jim Crow South. While undoubtedly a skilled politician of immense influence, his legacy is marred by his lifelong support of white supremacy. Russell publicly said that America was “a white man’s country, yes, and we are going to keep it that way.” He also said he was vehemently opposed to “political and social equality with the Negro.” Russell also supported poll taxes across the South and called President Truman's support of civil rights for black Americans an “uncalled-for attack on our Southern civilization."[38]
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 25, 2023, 08:25:29 pm
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/tribes-want-to-rename-ohios-wayne-national-forest-sen-jd-vance-does-not.html

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WASHINGTON, D. C. – Native American tribes whom Gen. Anthony Wayne helped remove from Ohio more than 200 years now want to remove his name from the Southeast Ohio’s Wayne National Forest.
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A Forest Service press release said Wayne’s “complicated legacy includes leading a violent campaign against the Indigenous peoples of Ohio that resulted in their removal from their homelands,” and described the current forest name as “offensive because of this history of violence.”
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U.S. Sen. JD Vance on Thursday asked top Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials to oppose the change. In a letter to Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack and Forest Service Chief Randy Moore, Vance said the name change would denigrate Ohio history and represent “a lack of fidelity to our nation’s founding generation.”

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/old-content/msg7380/#msg7380

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/leftist-vs-rightist-moral-circles/msg9760/#msg9760
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: rp on October 31, 2023, 02:22:52 pm
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1589976896925597696?t=uS-YFy86Sx_yhgtfNjd-EQ&s=19
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What is meant by “Middle East”? Any region far from Europe is called the Far East, close to Europe is Near East, & anything in between is #MiddleEast. Europe is the benchmark for these names. The West claimed such rights for themselves. Don’t say the Middle East; say #WestAsia.

I agree with everything but the last sentence. Asia itself is a Eurocentric term FFS!
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 31, 2023, 05:19:56 pm
Yes, "West Asia" is definitely the worse term by far, as most of "West Asia":

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Western_Asia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/768px-Western_Asia_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png)

 is actually east of the accurate definition of Asia (shown in red):

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Roman_Empire_-_Asia_%28125_AD%29.svg/924px-Roman_Empire_-_Asia_%28125_AD%29.svg.png)

making the name absurd to anyone who knows history. "West Asia" is also functionally worse because it excludes Egypt etc., unlike "Middle East":

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Middle_East_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/800px-Middle_East_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png)

On the other hand, Mashriq:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Map_of_the_Mashriq.png/1024px-Map_of_the_Mashriq.png)

has the disadvantage of excluding Iran and Turkey. The best we can do is Rashidun:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mohammad_adil-Rashidun-empire-at-its-peak-close.PNG/640px-Mohammad_adil-Rashidun-empire-at-its-peak-close.PNG)

I suppose we could try to promote the term "Greater Rashidun"?
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: Zhang Caizhi on November 01, 2023, 12:19:48 am
It's interesting that the Ayatollah or his press secretary prefers this term.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 02, 2023, 03:46:26 pm
Previously:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/msg728/#msg728

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what does it say about a civilization that sees no problem with naming birds after the first humans who shot them?? Answer: it is Western. This story really succinctly captures how Western civilization interacts with everything it comes into contact with. The initiated violence, the utter lack of respect, the reflexive hubris, all in one package.
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here is a False Leftist on the issue:

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    Should any birds be named after people? Some birders, like Nick Lund, didn’t want to end the honorific process altogether. “It’s fun to honor people, and add a sense of history,” he wrote at The Birdist, while stressing that offensive names should be changed. “If there's a bird named after some guy and it turns out that guy was a huge racist jerk, change the name!”

Lund may be against racism, but he is still a Westerner because he thinks it is "fun" to name non-humans after humans. A True Leftist, on the other hand, is effortlessly aware that it is disrespectful.

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    Birders like Philadelphia’s Tony Croasdale have created lists of revised names, redubbing animals like Rivoli’s Hummingbird to Majestic Hummingbird or Harris’s Hawk to Pack-hunting Hawk.

Success:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/01/bird-names-racism-audubon/

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After two years of discussion and debate, the nation’s premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names.
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The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it will remove names given to North American birds in honor of people and replace them with monikers that better describe their plumage and other characteristics. The group said it will prioritize birds whose names trace to enslavers, white supremacists and robbers of Indigenous graves.
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Not every birder in the 2,700-member society is expected to welcome the news. Some who’ve memorized names established for more than a century are likely to push back. “Are we expecting that people won’t agree with this decision—sure,” Morris said. “But we’re proud of this decision.”

The American Ornothological Society just became more authentically American (ie. non-Western).
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 07, 2023, 06:09:00 pm
(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-07-at-12.46.20%E2%80%AFPM.png)

 :)

Related:

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/the-false-left-is-finished/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/msg15091/#msg15091
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 14, 2023, 07:46:06 pm
Good catch!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12742845/Astronomers-call-Large-Small-Magellanic-Clouds-renamed-amid-claims-namesake-violent-colonialist-legacy.html

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Astronomers say the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds should be given a new title because of their namesake's 'violent colonialist legacy'.

The dwarf galaxies, visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, have been known about for more than 1,000 years after being spotted by indigenous peoples across South America, Australia, and Africa.

But they are named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who claimed to have discovered them with his crew during his first circumnavigation of the globe between 1519 and 1522.
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Mia de los Reyes, an assistant professor of astronomy at Amherst College, Massachusetts, branded Magellan 'a coloniser, a slaver and a murderer'.

She added that he was 'no astronomer', nor was he the first to discover the galaxies because indigenous peoples had 'names and legends for these systems that predate Magellan by thousands of years'.

Professor de los Reyes said she and 'a coalition of astronomers' were calling for the scientific community to rename the clouds, 'as well as other astronomical objects, institutions, and facilities that bear his name'.   

A lunar crater, a Martian crater, NASA's Magellan spacecraft, the twin Magellan telescopes in Chile and the next-generation telescope under construction – called the Giant Magellan Telescope – are all named after the explorer.

'I and many other astronomers believe that astronomical objects and facilities should not be named after Magellan, or after anyone else with a violent colonialist legacy,' Professor de los Reyes wrote in the American Physical Society journal.

She said the explorer had murdered, enslaved and burned the homes of indigenous people during his circumnavigation, while also placing iron manacles on the 'youngest and best proportioned men' in what is now Argentina.
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The very first recorded mention of the Large Magellanic Cloud was by Persian astronomer Shirazi, in his Book of Fixed Stars around 964 AD.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 30, 2023, 03:39:56 pm
Our enemies complain:

https://vdare.com/posts/erasing-america-non-whites-in-montgomery-county-seek-to-rename-francis-scott-key-middle-school-because-he-was-a-white-racist-and-slaveowner

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Wait until they find out Francis Scott Key was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, an organization replete with some of America’s greatest white men of the 19th century, which had the aim of removing blacks from the United States.
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According to MoCo360, the review found the schools named after slaver owners are: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring; Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring; Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood; Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville; John Poole Middle School in Poolesville and Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville.

A recent Fall 2023 report from Montgomery County’s Periodical for Historical Research added a seventh school to the list—Julius West Middle School.

In February, members of the Magruder High School community filed a petition to rename the school because the school’s namesake ‘does not meet the acceptable criteria for a school name,’ reported The Washington Post.

Magruder, a founding father of Montgomery County and Revolutionary War officer, reported he had 26 enslaved people on his property on the 1790 Census.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: rp on December 01, 2023, 04:37:05 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAS8BrcbgAAfKmP?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 06, 2023, 05:15:38 pm
Montana becomes more American:

https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-landmarks-named-after-confederate-president-renamed

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The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names approved the renaming of three geographic features that had been named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
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Two of the features were given traditional Salish names, the third was named in honor of a Salish chief.

The board renamed Jeff Davis Gulch just outside Helena in Lewis and Clark County to In-qu-qu-leet Gulch, a rough phonetic rendering of the Salish word that means "Place of Lodgepole Pine." Jeff Davis Creek in Beaverhead County has been renamed Doyavinai Baa O’ogwaide which means “water flowing from the mountain creek."

Jeff Davis Peak in Broadwater County will now be called Three Eagles Peak. According to the Char Kooosta News, Three Eagles is named after a Salish chief from the late 1700s.

Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 15, 2023, 04:38:23 pm
Our enemies complain about our latest success:

https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-rumbles-on-minneapolis-s-patrick-henry-high-school-now-93-non-white-will-change-name-to-no-longer-honor-a-dead-white-male

They even included a photo which shows the American (ie. non-Western) campus architecture:

(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/61139/VDARE-kersey-patrick-henry.jpg)

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If renaming one kindergarten bearing Anne Frank's name shows "the threat to Jews today", then what does renaming hundreds of schools, buildings, and streets bearing White people's names suggest about the threat posed to them in their own homelands?

These are not your homelands, occupier.
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 12, 2024, 03:45:12 pm
https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/02/07/maine-grapples-with-renaming-racial-and-ethnic-slurs-in-place-names/

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At least 16 places in Maine have names that include racial or ethnic slurs, although by law many were supposed to be eradicated decades ago
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In 1977, Maine’s first Black state legislator Gerald Talbot sponsored a bill that prohibited the use of the n-word in the names of places, and in 2000, Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative Donald Soctomah got a bill passed eradicating from place names the sq-slur, a racist term for a Native American woman.

However, Talbot’s daughter, House Speaker Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), discovered in 2020 that her father’s bill had not been effectively enforced, nor had Soctomah’s measure. Several islands and other sites still illegally had names that bore slurs against Black people and Native American women.

Talbot Ross was behind a 2022 law intended to rectify noncompliance, tasking the Permanent Commission to create a council to identify remaining offensive place names. While Maine has been ahead of the curve in outlawing slurs from place names, the continued existence of offensive names in the state show oversight is still lacking.
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“When my father put in his landmark bill, he made a speech on the House floor that asked the state legislature if it was right for his kids to be raised in a state in which they could look at the names of mountains and rivers and streams that actually use the derogatory N-word,”
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The Place Justice Advisory Council found 163 places in Maine named after Indigenous people. “In these cases, which might at first appear to honor these individuals, what we have to ask is ‘Who did the naming?’” questioned Meadow Dibble, a project lead on the research. “Often what is being celebrated is people’s deaths, rather than honoring them.”

This. (Answer: probably a Western occupier.)
Title: Re: Name decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 05, 2024, 01:00:23 am
Success:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/04/sir-walter-raleigh-sir-francis-drake-names-exeter-school/

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A private school has pledged to remove the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake from its buildings in an “inclusivity” drive.

Parents at Exeter School in Devon were told that the Elizabethan naval heroes no longer “represent the values and inclusive nature” of the school.
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Raleigh was a colonialist who failed to establish a British settlement in North Carolina because of hostile relations with Native Americans.
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Drake took part in voyages with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, which saw the capture of black African slaves.