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Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
Fast Eddie (blacke@cotton.uamont.edu)
12 Aug 1996 18:04:00 GMT
In article <woody-0608960051200001@192.0.2.1>, woody@alumni.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) writes:
>pciszek@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>> >4. the identification of medicinal alkaloids in plant tissues
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>> Healers have been using them for millenia, but western medicine
>> doesn't want you to know that.
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>Which reminds me of one of the more irritating things I have ever
>encountered in the history books with the "great explorers."
>
>It says in my history books that Columbus discovered the new world.
>Inexcapable fact. It's gotta be true, because every blasted book
>I ever read talks about Columbus's discovery, and how monumental
>that was to the course of civilization today.
>
>Like my Native American ancestors were just so much chopped liver.
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>
>I mean, there were <<men>> and <<women>> who lived on this continent
>long before Columbus cheated and convinced the Kings and Queens that
>the world was much smaller than it was. There were children playing here
>and entire civilizations rose and fell. Astronomy was invented,
>crops were planted, homes were built, people lived and loved and
>died and debated the great questions of the day.
>
>But because Europe didn't know about my ancestors, they have been
>forgotten.
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>And so even though entire civilizations lived on the American
>Continents long before whites ever heard of the place, apparently
>Columbus still discovered the new world.
>
>Cultural bias?
>
>Naaaaahhhh....
>
> - Bill
>
>Who always boggles at the number of great explorers shown on the
>Discovery Channel who discovered some lost city or civilization
>or somesuch, who'se great discovery was made because he asked some
>local where the place was.
>
>--
>William Edward Woody | e-mail: woody@alumni.cco.caltech.edu
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Great post!
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