The plain English is gentlemen, most probably a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and molattoes, Irish teagues 226 and out landish jack tarrs.-And why we should scruple to call such a set of people a mob, I can't conceive, unless the name is too respectable for them: The sun is not about to stand still or go out, nor the rivers to dry up because there was a mob in Boston on the 5th of March that attacked a party of soldiers.-Such things are not new in the world, nor in the British dominions, though they are comparatively, rareties and novelties in this town. Carr a native of Ireland had often been concerned in such attacks, and indeed, from the nature of things, soldiers quartered in a populous town, will always occasion two mobs, where they prevent one.-They are wretched conservators of the peace!
Steve James wrote:The situation was really similar to today. It was about oppression and excessive force.
On June 17, 1775, one of the most important battles of the American Revolution, The Battle of Bunker Hill, took place. Among the Continental Army was Peter Salem from Framingham, Massachusetts. Salem was born enslaved but at the outbreak of war was temporarily released by his owners so that he could serve in the army. Salem has been identified by a number of participants as the soldier that fired the shot that killed British Maj. John Pitcairn at Bunker Hill.
Today Oñate is known for the 1599 Acoma Massacre. Following a dispute that led to the death of thirteen Spaniards at the hands of the Ácoma, including Oñate's nephew, Juan de Zaldívar, Oñate ordered a brutal retaliation against Acoma Pueblo. The Pueblo was destroyed.[2] Around 800–1000 Ácoma were killed.[3]
Of the 500 or so survivors, at a trial at Ohkay Owingeh, Oñate sentenced most to twenty years of forced "personal servitude" and additionally mandated that all men over the age of twenty-five have a foot cut off.[3] He was eventually banished from New Mexico and exiled from Mexico City for five years, convicted by the Spanish government of using "excessive force" against the Acoma people.[2]
Today, Oñate remains a controversial figure in New Mexican history: in 1998 the right foot was cut off a statue of the conquistador that stands in Alcalde, New Mexico in protest of the massacre, and significant controversy arose when a large equestrian statue of Oñate was erected in El Paso, Texas in 2006.
On June 15 2020, the statue of Oñate in Alcalde, New Mexico was officially removed by Rio Arriba County workers at the direction of officials.[6]
Steve James wrote:I loved Zlatan, but the treatment of his statue is nothing to the treatment a Colombian goalie got one time.
Anyway, do you think there'll be a civil war because his parents aren't Swedish? Were they immigrants?
Carl Von Linne to be taken down, no he wasnt a slave trader or a killer, but his scientific works may have paved the way for the eugenics movment that later came on strong in europe
I remember seeing that on TV, footage up close, one got the impression af a huge mass of people stood around to show their hatred toward the Saddam statue....then footage from a distance came out showing the statue area sealed off by US military, and as a selected group of tear down the statue where at work.....seemed staged... in Baghdad watching people tear down Saddam's statue. It's not about a statue.
Steve James wrote:
Statues must always be accompanied by their stories. No?
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