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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

columbus & the new world order.

the following is taken from columbus' journals by way of autobiography of a blue-eyed evil: my life & times in a racist, imperialist society by igna musico. he wrote about the arawak people in the bahamas.

ahem:

they...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. they willingly traded everything they owned...they were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features...they do not bear arms, and do not know them, for i showed them a sword, but took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignornace. they have no iron. their spears are made of cane...they would make fine servants....with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

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