American Indian Movement?

Question

So AIM wants to stop the Columbus celebration here in Colorado? Why? Are they racist? Looks like to me they are, as they don't like Italian American's to celebrate Columbus. Was he alone the only one responsible for the so called genocide? No!

Why doesn't AIM get on to the federal government about the money owed them from the Trust Funds? This would do more good than crying about Columbus Day!

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with racism. Read what AIM has to say about it first :

"The settler governments and peoples of North, Central and South America who occupy the lands of various Indigenous nations of peoples will again celebrate with holiday parades and festivals for the 513th year of the invasion of our sacred lands by the colonial pirate Christopher Columbus. Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust against Indian peoples that claimed at least 60 million people from 1492 to the present. These deaths were characterized by military and biological warfare, murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from their homelands."

"To our Italian American friends, and others we say that to celebrate the legacy of this murderer is an affront to all Indian peoples, and others who truly understand this history. It would be the same as if German people would celebrate and glorify Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism, and the Nazi holocaust by holding parades through the Jewish communities of America and throughout the world."

"Indigenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorfication of Colonial Pirate Christoper Columbus",
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT , October 10, 2005 : http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/columbus05.html

Answer 2

Matty is retarded, to start with this man or woman is speakme approximately Native Americans. Indians within the UK, don't seem to be Muslims they're Hindus and Sikhs - we're the richest bunch within the UK and on no account declare advantages (verify information) we get the maximum grades within the UK regardless of being an ethnic minority (once more verify the information). Most folks Indians moved to the UK after the British colonialism ended there in 1947, we got here right here considering that at the moment India was once poorer than considering that the British colonialism had robbed it of gold etc. Not all of India is deficient, plenty of it at present could be very wealthy and blank and higher than plenty of places within the UK.