Igor Stravinsky, a pseudonym, is quiet about who he or she is but is refreshingly candid, an example:
“The reality is that Floyd was a violent career criminal who was high as a kite on fentanyl when he was reported to police for trying to pass counterfeit currency in a store. He violently resisted arrest. What happened next was a tragic failure of police procedures but certainly not racially motivated murder.”
That was a really enjoyable story. Certainly, 99% of us would be totally unaware of it so thanks for writing. Such a well written piece.
I only recently learned from my wife’s cousins in England that the British spent 20% of their GDP one year abolishing the slave trade. I’d never heard that previously. As with all of the DEI agenda… So much misinformation.
The name 'Great Slave Lake' has nothing to do with slavery of any kind. It derives from a corruption of the name of one of the local peoples.
Similarly your statement "In fact the word “slave” originates with the Slavs, Eastern Europeans who were enslaved during the Barbary Slave Trade." is partially incorrect. The words are related as you say but not due to the Barbary slave trade rather the origin is from the Crimean slave trading many centuries prior. The Barbary pirates did not focus on Slavic peoples but rather on coastal dwellers around the Mediterranean and Atlantic from 1500s to 1800s. The Crimea trade in Slavs or slaves operated in parallel but dates from at least the 800s AD and that is where and when the term slave originated.
You should fact-check your statements. Careless assertions like this needlessly draw all your claims into doubt.
The Dene Tha' are also known as the Slave (or Slavey). That name was given to them by the Cree, who once enslaved the Dene Tha'. Don't trust the first Google hit you get. Dig deeper.
You are right. My mistake, the "Slave" part of Great Slave Lake is a translation of the Cree word for the local inhabitants, which meant slave. Apologies.
Igor Stravinsky, a pseudonym, is quiet about who he or she is but is refreshingly candid, an example:
“The reality is that Floyd was a violent career criminal who was high as a kite on fentanyl when he was reported to police for trying to pass counterfeit currency in a store. He violently resisted arrest. What happened next was a tragic failure of police procedures but certainly not racially motivated murder.”
Look at the documentary by Liz Collins. The Fall of Minneapolis.
A discussion by Glen Loury & John McWhorter presented by the Manhattan Institute also ask candid questions about the mainstream narrative.
That was a really enjoyable story. Certainly, 99% of us would be totally unaware of it so thanks for writing. Such a well written piece.
I only recently learned from my wife’s cousins in England that the British spent 20% of their GDP one year abolishing the slave trade. I’d never heard that previously. As with all of the DEI agenda… So much misinformation.
I only read as far as the line where it said the performance began with a 'Land Acknowledgement'.
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The name 'Great Slave Lake' has nothing to do with slavery of any kind. It derives from a corruption of the name of one of the local peoples.
Similarly your statement "In fact the word “slave” originates with the Slavs, Eastern Europeans who were enslaved during the Barbary Slave Trade." is partially incorrect. The words are related as you say but not due to the Barbary slave trade rather the origin is from the Crimean slave trading many centuries prior. The Barbary pirates did not focus on Slavic peoples but rather on coastal dwellers around the Mediterranean and Atlantic from 1500s to 1800s. The Crimea trade in Slavs or slaves operated in parallel but dates from at least the 800s AD and that is where and when the term slave originated.
You should fact-check your statements. Careless assertions like this needlessly draw all your claims into doubt.
Attention disorder
The Dene Tha' are also known as the Slave (or Slavey). That name was given to them by the Cree, who once enslaved the Dene Tha'. Don't trust the first Google hit you get. Dig deeper.
You are right. My mistake, the "Slave" part of Great Slave Lake is a translation of the Cree word for the local inhabitants, which meant slave. Apologies.
Agreed & that’s disappointing.
Yep. Canada is definitely behind the US in getting rid of woke left DEI poison.
How can it happen when Liberals are running the show ?
Good point. But there is some pushback from brave souls even here.