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Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 1, 2020, 2:04 am
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Many places today bear names resultant from colonialism, which
should be changed in order to reflect decolonization. The hubris
of the colonialists was such that they did not even bother to
use the pre-existing namesof the lands they colonized, but
treated these lands as nothing but free real estate:
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Thisis not an exaggeration; for example, the name "Rhodesia"
(after Cecil Rhodes) is literally no different than Donald Trump
naming golf courses etc. after himself. Zambia set a good
example by tossing out the name "Northern Rhodesia" in 1964; we
hope many more follow suit in future.
A few of the more obvious ones:
[quote]The name of the Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas
[pɪlɪˈpinɐs]; Spanish: Filipinas) is a
truncated form of Philippine Islands, derived from the King
Philip II of Spain in the 16th century.
...
Due to the colonial origin and direct meaning of the country's
current name, proposals for name change have surfaced since the
late 19th century up to present time. Among the proposed names
that have surfaced include Sovereign Tagalog Nation (Haring
Bayang Katagalugan)[6][7], Katipunan (Assembly/Gathering)[8],
Kapatiran (Brotherhood)[8], Luzviminda (Luzon, Visayas, and
Mindanao)[9], Luzvimindas (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and eastern
Sabah)[9], Mahárlika (Nobility)[8], Rizalia[8], Rizaline
Republic (República Rizalina)[10], and Dayaw Republic
(Repúblikang Dayaw).[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Philippines
[quote]Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642
and named it Staten Land "in honour of the States General"
(Dutch parliament). He wrote, "itis possible that this land
joins to the Staten Land but it is uncertain",[10] referring to
a landmass of the same name at the southerntip of South America,
discovered by Jacob Le Maire in 1616.[11][12] In 1645, Dutch
cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch
province of Zeeland.[13][14] British explorer James Cook
subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand.[15]
Aotearoa (pronounced
/ˌaʊtɛəˈroʊ.ə/; often
translated as "land of the long whitecloud")[16] is the current
Māori name for New Zealand. [/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Etymology
[quote]The English term Guinea comes directly from the
Portuguese word Guiné, which emerged in the mid-15th century to
refer to the lands inhabited bythe Guineus, a generic term used
by the Portuguese to refer to the 'black' African peoples living
south of the Senegal River (in contrast to the 'tawny' Sanhaja
Berbers, north of it, whom they called Azenegues). The term
"Guinea" is extensively used in the 1453 chronicle of Gomes
Eanes de Zurara.[1] King John II of Portugal took up the title
of Senhor da Guiné (Lord of Guinea) from 1483.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology (this also
applies to Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau)
[quote]When the Portuguese and Spanish explorers arrived in the
island via the Spice Islands, they also referred to the island
as Papua.[2] However, the name New Guinea was later used by
Westerners starting with the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de
Retez in 1545, referring to the similarities of the indigenous
people's appearance with the natives of the Guinea region of
Africa.[2] The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar
etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar
meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.
The Dutch, who arrived later under Jacob Le Maire and Willem
Schouten, called it Schouten island, but later this name was
used only to refer toislands off the north coast of Papua
proper, the Schouten Islands or Biak Island. When the Dutch
colonized it as part of Netherlands East Indies, they called it
Nieuw Guinea.[2]
The name Irian was used in the Indonesian language to refer to
the island and Indonesian province, as "Irian Jaya Province".
The name was promoted in 1945 by Marcus Kaisiepo,[1] brother of
the future governor Frans Kaisiepo. It istaken from the Biak
language of Biak Island, and means "to rise", or "rising
spirit". Irian is the name used in the Biak language and other
languages such as Serui, Merauke and Waropen.[2] [/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea#Names
(HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0XLUUSb5Y
[quote]In 1920, Ernest Francois Eugene Douwes Dekker
(1879–1950), who was also known as Setiabudi, introduced a new
name for this proposed independent country (successor state of
colonial Dutch East Indies) — which unlike its currently used
name of "Indonesia" — did not contain any words etymologically
inherited from the name of India or the Indies.[7] The new
proposed name was the locally developed name Nusantara. This is
the first instance of the term Nusantara appearing after it had
been writteninto Pararaton manuscript.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara#The_first_appearance_of_Nusantar
a_concept_in_the_20th_century
[quote]In 1568, the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the
first European tovisit the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming
it Islas Salomón ("Solomon Islands") after the wealthy biblical
King Solomon.[4] It is said that they were given this name in
the mistaken assumption that they contained great riches,[6] and
he believed them to be the Bible-mentioned city of Ophir.[7]
During most of the period of British rule the territory was
officially named "the British Solomon Islands Protectorate".[8]
On 22 June 1975 the territory was renamed "theSolomon
Islands".[8] When Solomon Islands became independent in 1978,
the name was changed to "Solomon Islands".[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands#Name
[quote]The island appears with a Portuguese name Cirne on early
Portuguese maps, probably from the name of a ship in the 1507
expedition. Another Portuguese sailor, Dom Pedro Mascarenhas,
gave the name Mascarenes to the Archipelago.
In 1598, a Dutch squadron under Admiral Wybrand van Warwyck
landed at Grand Port and named the island Mauritius, in honour
of Prince Maurice van Nassau, stadholder of the Dutch
Republic.Later the island became a French colony and was renamed
Isle de France.On 3 December 1810, the French surrendered the
island to Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Under
British rule, the island's name reverted to Mauritius[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#Etymology
[quote]Originally, Portuguese and French merchant-explorers in
the 15th and 16th centuriesdivided the west coast of Africa,
very roughly, into four "coasts" reflecting local economies. The
coast that the French named the Côte d'Ivoire and the Portuguese
named the Costa do Marfim—both, literally, mean "Coast of
Ivory"—lay between what was known as the Guiné de Cabo Verde,
so-called "Upper Guinea" at Cap-Vert, and Lower Guinea.[9][10]
There was also a Pepper Coast, also known as the "Grain Coast",
a "Gold Coast", and a "Slave Coast". Like those, the name "Ivory
Coast" reflected the major trade that occurred on that
particular stretch of the coast: the export of ivory.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast#Names
[quote]European contacts within Sierra Leone were among the
first in West Africa in the15th century. In 1462, Portuguese
explorer Pedro de Sintra mapped the hills surrounding what is
now Freetown Harbour, naming the shaped formation Serra da Leoa
or "Serra Leoa" (Portuguese for Lioness Mountains).[21] The
Spanish rendering of this geographic formation is Sierra Leona,
which later was adapted and, misspelled, became the country's
current name.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone#European_trading
[quote]Gabon's name originates from gabão, Portuguese for
"cloak", which is roughly the shape of the estuary of the Komo
River by Libreville.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon#Etymology
[quote]Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th
century and named the area Rio dos Camarões (Shrimp River),
which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the
Adamawa Emirate in the north in the 19th century, and various
ethnic groups of the west and northwest established
powerfulchiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony
in 1884 known asKamerun.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon
[quote]For most of its history, up until independence, the
country was known as Santo Domingo[36]—the name of its present
capital and patron saint, Saint Dominic—andcontinued to be
commonly known as such in English until the early 20th
century.[37] The residents were called "Dominicans"
(Dominicanos), whichis the adjective form of "Domingo", and the
revolutionaries named theirnewly independent country "Dominican
Republic" (República Dominicana).
Inthe national anthem of the Dominican Republic (himno nacional
de la República Dominicana), the term "Dominicans" does not
appear. The authorof its lyrics, Emilio Prud'Homme, consistently
uses the poetic term "Quisqueyans" (Quisqueyanos). The word
"Quisqueya" derives from a nativetongue of the Taino Indians and
means "Mother of the lands" (Madre de las tierras). It is often
used in songs as another name for the country.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic#Names_and_etymology
[quote]The name "Colombia" is derived from the last name of
Christopher Columbus(Italian: Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish:
Cristóbal Colón). It was conceived by the Venezuelan
revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New
World, but especially to those portions under Spanish rule (by
then from Mississippi river to Patagonia). The name waslater
adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819, formed from the
territories of the old Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day
Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, and northwest
Brazil).[18][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia#Etymology
[quote]The Spanish expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, sailing
along the length of the northern coast of South America in 1499,
gave the name Venezuela ("little Venice" in Spanish) to the Gulf
of Venezuela — because of its imagined similarity to the Italian
city. [/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Venezuela
A few of the more subtle ones:
[quote]In the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company
established a commercial post at Fort Zeelandia (modern-day
Anping, Tainan) on a coastal sandbar called "Tayouan",[30] after
their ethnonym for a nearby Taiwanese aboriginal tribe, possibly
Taivoan people, written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as
Taiouwang, Tayowan, Teijoan, etc.[31] This name was also adopted
into the Chinese vernacular (in particular, Hokkien, as
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-oân/Tâi-oân) as the name of
the sandbar and nearby area (Tainan). The modern word "Taiwan"
is derived from this usage, which is seen in various forms
(大員, 大圓, 大灣,
臺員, 臺圓 and 臺窩灣)
in Chinese historical records. The area occupied by modern-day
Tainan represented the first permanent settlement by both
European colonists and Chinese immigrants. The settlement grew
to be the island's most important trading centre and served as
its capital until 1887. Use of the current Chinese name
(臺灣) was formalized as early as 1684 with the
establishment of Taiwan Prefecture. Through its rapid
development the entire Formosan mainland eventually became known
as "Taiwan".[32][33][34][35][/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Etymology
(The only correct name is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning )
Then there is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
which need to be renamed because we need to discontinue the
Eurocentric term "Africa" altogether. (Namibia was until 1990
known as "South-West Africa", therefore its name change sets a
positive example that these other countries can follow.)
And of course the most obvious one of all that is so obvious it
is sometimes forgotten:
[quote]The name "Israel" (Hebrew: Yisraʾel,
Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek:
Ἰσραήλ Israēl; 'El(God)
persists/rules', though after Hosea 12:4 often interpreted as
"struggle with God")[60][61][62][63] in these phrases refers to
the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible,was given
the name after he successfully wrestled with the angel of
theLord.[64] Jacob's twelve sons became the ancestors of the
Israelites, also known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel or
Children of Israel.[/quote]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#Etymology
(The only correct name is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22 )
Please add to this list as well as discuss existing items.
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How fitting that Colón has such a surname. (Colón is actually
cognate with “Dove,” the bird, but never mind that.)
It would be tactical in propaganda to synonomize Colonial
mindset with *Colónial*—referring to the mindset of Columbus as
he “stumbled” across the Carribean.
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newsinfo.inquirer.net/1091675/duterte-stresses-desire-to-rename-
philippines
[quote]President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday reiterated his desire
to change the name of the Philippines weeks after he said the
late president Ferdinand Marcos was right in wanting to change
the country’s name to “Maharlika.”
But Duterte said he had no particular name yet in mind.
“I want to change it in the future. No particular name yet but
sure I would like to change the name of the Philippines because
the Philippinesis named after King Philip,” he said in a speech
during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Isabela City gymnasium
in Basilan.[/quote]
Do it! And make sure you rename the gymnasium (and the city the
gymnasium is named after) while you are at it!
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citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1990322/eff-wants-sa-renamed-aza
nia-says-shivambu/
[quote]Talking to JJ Tabane on Power FM, EFF deputy president
Floyd Shivambu addressedthe issue of name changes in South
Africa, saying he believed ‘South Africa’ had colonial
connotations and should be changed to Azania.
“The name South Africa was an attempt to give direction to the
colonial output. We must decide as a country to democratically
change the name ofthe country to Azania,” he said.
Shivambu’s view seems to be in line with that of PAC general
secretary Narius Moloto, who called for SAto be renamed Azania
in June 2017.
“Azania is the original name of the Southern tip of Africa, and
the research by Professor Es’kiah Mphahlele clearly reveals that
the real name of South Africa is actuallyAzania,” he told Talk
Radio 702 at the time.
According to Moloto: “The name Azania is derived from the term
Azanj, which is Arabic.”
“It has its own historic referral rather than geographical. This
country did not have a real name, rather a geographical name,”
he continued.
Shivambu said the EFF also wanted to rename anything in South
Africa that was still named after apartheid leaders.
“The names of so many things in SA after racist apartheid
leaders is one that definitely should be addressed, and we are
working on that,” he said.[/quote]
Nice! Azania it is!
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 1, 2020, 2:04 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Rename the bases!
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/opinion/sunday/army-base-names-confed
eracy-racism.html
[quote]Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?
It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist
traitors.
...
The white supremacist who murdered nine black churchgoers in
Charleston, S.C., five years ago dispensed with the fiction that
the Confederate battle flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern
pride.” A murderer’s manifesto describing the killings as the
start of a race war — combined with photos of the killer
brandishing a pistol and a rebel flag — made it impossible to
ignore the connection between Confederate ideology and
ablood-drenched tradition of racial terrorism that dates back to
the mid-19th century in the American South.
...
This same toxic legacy clings to the 10 United States military
installations across the South that were named for Confederate
Army officersduring the first half of the 20th century.
Apologists often describe the names as a necessary gesture of
reconciliation in the wake of the Civil War. In truth, the
namings reflect a federal embrace of white supremacy that found
its most poisonous expression in military installations where
black servicemen were deliberately placed under the command of
white Southerners — who were said to better “understand” Negroes
— and confined to substandard housing, segregated
transportationsystems and even “colored only” seating in movie
houses.
As the official Defense Department history of this period now
acknowledges, thefederal embrace of the Jim Crow system
undermined the country’s readiness for war and destroyed morale,
introducing black recruits to a brand of hard-core racism many
had not experienced in civilian life. As the military opened
more and more such bases across the country, the history notes,
it “actually spread federally sponsored segregation into areas
where it had never before existed with the force of law.” In
otherwords, the base names were part of a broad federal sellout
to white supremacy that poisoned the whole of the United States.
Celebrating a War Criminal
The officials who named a military base in Virginia for a
profoundly dishonorable Confederate general, George Pickett,
must have been willfully blind to a voluminous record
demonstrating his unworthiness. In addition to being accused of
cowardice at the pivotal battle at Gettysburg, the incompetent,
self-regarding Pickett faced a war crimes investigation for the
executions of 22 Union soldiers at Kinston, N.C., near the end
of the war. When a Union general reminded Pickett that federal
policy mandated retaliation for extralegal killings of Union
soldiers, the Confederate general responded by crowing about the
killings and threatening to hang 10 U.S. Army prisoners for
every Confederate prisoner who might be marched to the gallows.
A military panel investigating the Kinston killings wrote
unsparingly of Pickett’s command: “It is the opinion of board,”
the panel wrote, “thesemen have violated the rules of war and
every principle of humanity, andare guilty of crimes too heinous
to be excused by the Government of theUnited States.” Pickett
fled to Canada to avoid possible prosecution. He might well have
been hauled back in manacles had the U.S. Army commander, Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, not short-circuited the investigation.As the
journalist and Civil War historian Gerard A. Patterson writes,
Grant’s decision to save Pickett, with whom he had served in the
Mexican-American war, was a classic act of old-boy cronyism.
Even if Pickett’s crimes were set aside, his ineptitude in
combat should have ruled him out of consideration when federal
authorities were naming military installations.
By the time the federal government soughtout military training
facilities in the South in preparation for war abroad, the
school of mythology known as the Lost Cause movement — forged by
groups like The United Daughters of the Confederacy — had
rewritten Civil War history. This telling valorized the Ku Klux
Klan; cast even the most execrable Confederate officers as
saints; and portrayed slavery as an idyll featuring loving
masters who doted on happy black retainers.
The Lost Cause era also ushered in a reignof racial terror
during which African-Americans were stripped of basic rights and
murdered in public for reasons such as competing with whites in
business, seeking the vote or even failing to give way on the
sidewalk.
...
The federal government embraced pillars of the whitesupremacist
movement when it named military bases in the South. Consider,
for example, Fort Benning, Ga., which honors a Confederate
general, Henry Lewis Benning, who devoted himself to the premise
that African-Americans were not really human and could never be
trusted with full citizenship.
Benning was widely influential in Southern politics and served
on the Supreme Court of Georgia before turning his attentions to
the cause of secession. In a now famous speech in 1861, hetold
secession conventioneers in Virginia that his native state of
Georgia had left the union for one reason — to “prevent the
abolition ofher slavery.” Benning’s statements strongly resemble
that of present-day white supremacists — and reference the race
war theme put forward by the young racist who murdered nine
African-Americans in Charleston five years ago.
Benning warned, for example, that the abolition of slavery would
one day lead to the horror of “black governors, black
legislatures, black juries, black everything.” This, heopined,
would place white womanhood at the mercy of African-Americans
with the same rights as white people. “We will be completely
exterminated,” he said, “and the land will be left in the
possession of the blacks, and then it will go back into a
wilderness.”
By naming yet another Georgia base for a Confederate general,
John Brown Gordon, the federal government venerated a man who
was a leader of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War and
who may have taken on a broader role in the terrorist
organization when its first national leader — a former
Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest — suffereddeclining
health. As a politician, Gordon championed the late-19th-century
campaign that stripped African-American Southerners ofthe
citizenship rights they had briefly held during the period just
after the Civil War known as Reconstruction.
Among the other Confederate officers honored at Southern
military bases are merely undistinguished or flatly incompetent
commanders like the irascible Gen.Braxton Bragg — “the most
hated man of the Confederacy,” one biographercalls him. Bragg
was known for pettiness and cruelty, along with the battlefield
failures that eventually led to his being relieved of command.
A Deal With White Supremacy
The Charleston dead were scarcely cold when an Army spokesman
declared that there was no need to expunge Confederate base
names because the names were merely “historic’’ and “represent
individuals, not causes or ideologies.”
The first problem with this argument is that, as individuals,
these men were traitors. These rebel officers, who were willing
to destroy the United States to keep black people in chains, are
synonymous with the racist ideology that drove them to treason.
The second difficultyis that the base names were agreed upon as
part of broader accommodation in which the military embraced
stringent segregation so asnot to offend Southerners by treating
African-Americans as equals. The names represent not only
oppression before and during the Civil War, butalso
state-sponsored bigotry after it.
Black recruits who volunteered to die for their country were
mainly shut out of combat units, commanded by white Southerners
who often resented being assigned to colored units. In some
contexts, black servicemen were treated worse than prisoners of
war. The actress and singer Lena Horne, for example, flew into a
rage during World War II when she arrived at a military campto
entertain only to find that the best seats — in the “white”
section of the audience — had been reserved for German P.O.W.s.
The racist conventions applied on Southern military bases were
exported to bases in the North and West as well. When commanders
sought to police the leisure time conduct of black soldiers,
those conventions spilled over into surrounding towns that had
never known Jim Crow. At the heightof World War II, for example,
Southern white officers at a base not farfrom Philadelphia
reacted in vintage Deep South style when they saw black soldiers
dating white women. One officer decreed that “any association
between the colored soldiers and white women, whether voluntary
or not, would be considered rape” — an offense that had long
been subject to the death penalty under military law.
The Army surgeon general blew a kiss to racists in 1941 when he
justified the RedCross policy of segregating the wartime blood
bank by donor race — eventhough there was no scientific reason
for doing so. The point was to assure white recipients that they
would receive only “white” plasma. African-American newspapers
quickly pointed out that a black doctor, Dr.Charles Drew, who
directed the first Red Cross blood bank, had pioneered the
techniques that made large-scale blood plasma storage possible.
...
Military installations that celebrate white supremacist traitors
have loomed steadily larger in the civic landscape since the
country began closing smaller bases and consolidating its forces
on larger ones. Bases named for men who sought to destroy the
Union in the name of racial injustice are an insult to the
ideals servicemen and women are sworn to uphold — and an
embarrassing artifact of the time when the military itself
embraced anti-American values. It is long past time for those
bases to be renamed.[/quote]
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(HTM) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEN2Y9nIp3/?utm_source=ig_embed
(HTM) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDwhB0lzZU/?utm_source=ig_embed
Maybe one day we will have a "WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE
PLAZA"?
Thank you Mayor Bowser! She is also a sanctuary city
trailblazer:
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www.modernghana.com/news/1009117/wake-up-africa-rename-victoria-
falls-and-lake.html
[quote]Fellow Africans and friends of Africa liberation starts
by "Decolonizing The Mind," to borrow the title of a must-read
book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o the Kenyan intellectual and author.
Africans why do we in the 21st century still have a “Lake
Victoria” in Uganda and a “Victoria Falls” in Zimbabwe?
These are just two of the many African wonders that need to be
renamed or restored to their original ones.[/quote]
Yes! And on top of all this, stop using the terms "Africa" and
"African", which themselves are Western concepts! Group people
and territories by language, or by river basin, or by ancient
empire, or by present-day country instead! This was how we used
to do it before colonialism. Let'sget back to it.
[quote]A parallel campaign must be the recovery of Africa's
artifacts--which is an ongoing campaign--now housed or displayed
in the world's leading museums.[/quote]
I agree. We cover this also.
[quote]How can Africans talk of Pan-African unity without first
reclaiming Africa’s past? Do you see a lake Samori Ture in
France or a Mount Nehanda in Britain? These were iconic
resisters of European imperialism in the 19th century.[/quote]
Do not talk of "pan-African" unity! Talk of unity among all
formerly colonized peoples instead! Stop letting Westerners
divide us according to how they see us!
[quote]Last year, in April, while visiting London I posed for a
photo in front of ariver the natives call "Thames." I posted the
photo on my Facebook pageand declared I’d renamed that body of
water "Gulu River," after my great ancestral hometown in Uganda.
The post got hundreds of "likes.” Someone tweeted it and it has
since been retweeted several thousands of times. It also became
a “story” when The Wire , The Daily Nation , Nairobinews and
other outletes wrote about it. The BBC also carried an item
under the headline “Ugandan ‘explorer renames London river.’”
Thereafter, Africans started posing in front of monuments and
rivers throughout Europe and renaming them after African icons.
Iimagine people liked my “discovery” because they felt I was
giving the British a title ”taste of their own medicine." After
the global Covid-19lockdowns end, I plan to resume my
exploration so I can discover and rename more landmarks in
Europe and here in the United States.[/quote]
Nice for trolling, but be careful not to start taking it too
seriously. We are better than the Western colonialists.
[quote]But I want us to also start reclaiming Africa’s natural
wonders which were arrogantly renamed by European so-called
explorers. They were taken by African guides to "discover,”
lakes, rivers, and mountains they then renamed (including Lake
Victoria). Even though Africans naively assistedthem, they wrote
terrible things about the Africans once they returned to Europe,
as I document in my book " The Hearts of Darkness How White
Writers Created The Racist Image of Africa," (third edition
coming soon).
Samuel Baker, the British imperialist wrote in "Albert Nyanza,"
his 1866 book: "I wish the black sympathisers in England could
see Africa’s inmost heart as I do, much of their sympathy would
subside... Human nature viewed in its crude state as pictured
amongst African savages is quite on a level with that of the
brute, and not to be compared with the noble character of the
dog. There is neither gratitude, pity, love, nor self-denial; no
idea of duty; no religion; but covetousness, ingratitude,
selfishness, and cruelty. All are thieves, idle, envious, and
ready to plunder and enslave their weaker neighbours.”
Yet today in the 21st century, there's a secondary school named
after Samuel Baker in Uganda, and a few years ago alumni raised
money for his statue which stands on the school's campus. So
evenin death, Baker still mocks the so-called "natives."
There are many African heroes and sheroes who deserve the
honorific given to QueenVictoria, including: Kwame Nkrumah,
Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara,
Samora Machel, Steve Biko, Robert Sobukwe, Kenneth Kaunda,
Winnie Mandela, Nehanda, Yaa Asantewaa, Nzingah, and many
others.
Nehanda was an anti-colonial resistanceleader executed, at the
age of 58 by the British in Zimbabwe during Queen Victoria’s
era. She was then beheaded and he skull shipped off to England.
Don’t you think the spectacular falls deserves to bear her
nameinstead of that of Victoria whose imperial agents killed
her?
...
Start a campaign to honor African icons in your country.
This is the time to reclaim Africa![/quote]
Except,I repeat, it was the same Western colonialists who
introduced you to the concept of "Africa", a term which was
never used locally in pre-colonial times south of Roman Libya.
If you are serious about reclamation, begin by discarding this
Western term!
(The fact that I have to point this out to a self-proclaimed
decolonizer just shows how deep the colonization is.....)
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This is good too:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460719/House-Democrats-vote-ma
ke-Washington-D-C-state-renaming-Douglass-Commonwealth.html
[quote]Washingtonthe ‘District of Columbia’ would be no longer,
the bill’s language says, as the new state would be referred to
as ‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’ – swapping out Italian
explorer Christopher Columbus for Maryland-born abolitionist
Frederick Douglass.[/quote]
On the practical side:
[quote]Republicans have been averse to giving the city of
706,000 Americans statehood because it would mean giving Holmes
Norton, a Democrat, a vote and then there would be two new
senators.
In 2016, about 91 per cent of D.C.’s voters selected Democrat
Hillary Clinton for president, while just 4 per cent chose
President Trump.
With the current demographic makeup of the city, there’d be
practically no chance for a Republican senator to be elected
from the new Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.
...
Bowser made that point at a press conference in mid-June
explaining that with state-hood D.C. could refuse National Guard
members from other states coming into the city without local
official’s consent.[/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 1, 2020, 2:18 am
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(HTM) https://www.fox8live.com/2020/06/29/mayor-cantrell-creates-street-renaming-commission/
[quote]NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) -Mayor Latoya Cantrell says she
plans to name two people to the city’s Street Renaming
Commission which will aim to get rid of parks, streets, and
monuments that celebrate white supremacists.
...
The renaming commission was officially formed just two weeks
ago, but Jefferson Davis Parkway is already in the process of
being changed and will soon be named after former Xavier
University president Norman C. Francis.
...
The Commission will serve for a full calendar year with the
responsibility for making the following recommendations:
A list of streets, parks, and places that should be renamed,
accompanied by a detailed explanation.
A proposed list of replacement names for each recommended
street, park, or place, accompanied by a detailed explanation.
A process to facilitate both educating residents and
receiving public feedback on the proposed changes.[/quote]
(HTM) https://www.facebook.com/LaToyaForNOLA/posts/4194410810598870
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 8, 2020, 11:17 pm
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Another small victory:
(HTM) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-03/wa-king-leopold-ranges-renamed-wunaamin-miliwundi-ranges/12416254
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 17, 2020, 3:50 am
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This was from 2018:
(HTM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvcE1-r1Qjo
Two years later, victory:
(HTM) https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2020/7/13/21322508/washington-nfl-football-team-nickname-change
Every bit of activism makes a difference.
What have you, the reader, done to help kill Western
civilization?
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 24, 2020, 11:14 pm
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(HTM) https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressmen-introduce-resolution-change-171935204.html
[quote]A group of Republican House members introduced a
resolution Thursday that would effectively ban the Democratic
Party from the House or force a party name change over past
slavery ties.[/quote]
I see this as an opportunity for a Blue name change. Being
called something other than "Democratic" will make things more
convenient when we eventually promote autocracy. The truth is
that the name "Democratic" is un-American, since democracy was
never independently developed in the New World.
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 10, 2020, 11:35 pm
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(HTM) https://www.audubon.org/news/-bird-world-grappling-its-own-confederate-relic-mccowns-longspur
[quote]In 1851, John P. McCown, an amateur ornithologist and
army officer stationed in Texas, shot a group of larks on the
prairie. Examining his kills, he noted two examples of a bird
he’d never seen before: pale gray longspurs with a small spot of
chestnut on the wings and prominent white patches in the tail.
After preparing the specimens, he sent it off to an
ornithologist friend, who gave it the name McCown’s Longspur.
At the time, this was typical for species discovery and naming.
In the 1800s, European explorers were rapidly documenting and
naming animals new to them. As amateur and professional
collectors like McCown pushed west into Indian lands, they often
mailed bird specimens to researchers back east. Sometimes,
ornithologists honored colleagues by tagging their names to new
species, or named them after patrons or relatives. Today, 142
North American English common bird names are honorifics.
But McCown’s case stands out for one significant reason: Ten
years after shooting the longspur, he joined the Confederate
States Army, where he was ultimately promoted to Major General
and commanded multiple armies by the end of the war. He is the
only member of the Confederate armies whose name is borne by a
bird.
Now, as American culture is embroiled in a reckoning with
monuments to white supremacy—and when the birding world is
itself confronting its own past and present racism—the McCown’s
Longspur has become a central point of tension in a much larger
debate about honorific bird names, colonialism, and racism. On
social media, scientific listservs, and in petitions, many
birders are arguing that honoring McCown enshrines the ideas he
stood for when he fought for the right to enslave people and
went to war against native tribes.[/quote]
Confederacy aside, what does it say about a civilization that
sees no problem with naming birds after the first humans who
shot them?? Answer: it is Western. This story really succinctly
captures how Western civilization interacts with everything it
comes into contact with. The initiated violence, the utter lack
of respect, the reflexive hubris, all in one package.
[quote]Name changes aren’t uncommon in the bird world. The NACC
annually updates common names—the names birds are colloquially
called, as opposed to their formal scientific names—to reflect
new scientific analyses or grammatical changes. But it has
historically proven resistant to changing bird names on the
grounds of cultural sensitivity. In a proposal filed in 2000 to
change the name of an Arctic duck from the anti-Indigenous slur
“Oldsquaw” to the European name Long-tailed Duck, the committee
agreed to change the name for reasons of consistency but
explicitly ruled out doing so for “political correctness.”
Another proposal in 2011 to rename a Hawaiian species known as
the Maui Parrotbill—which is not, as the proposal pointed out, a
member of the parrotbill family—in favor of a newly invented
name, Kiwikiu, which used Hawaiian symbols, was met with
considerable venom. “It seems contrived, unfamiliar,
unpronounceable, and lacks a long history of usage,” opined one
member of the board, while another wrote: “For no other region
in the world have what are the equivalent of local colloquial
names been widely incorporated into standardized English names.
Enough is enough.”[/quote]
What do you expect from a Western institution?
And here is a False Leftist on the issue:
[quote] Should any birds be named after people? Some birders,
like Nick Lund, didn’t want to end the honorific process
altogether. “It’s fun to honor people, and add a sense of
history,” he wrote at The Birdist, while stressing that
offensive names should be changed. “If there's a bird named
after some guy and it turns out that guy was a huge racist jerk,
change the name!”[/quote]
Lund may be against racism, but he is still a Westerner because
he thinks it is "fun" to name non-humans after humans. A True
Leftist, on the other hand, is effortlessly aware that it is
disrespectful.
[quote]Birders like Philadelphia’s Tony Croasdale have created
lists of revised names, redubbing animals like Rivoli’s
Hummingbird to Majestic Hummingbird or Harris’s Hawk to
Pack-hunting Hawk.[/quote]
(HTM) https://www.wildlifeobservernetwork.com/blog/renaming-the-birds-of-north-america
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 20, 2020, 11:23 pm
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(HTM) https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_dc1464e2-e2f8-11ea-9fce-7ba5e4be9be3.html
[quote]'Jefferson Davis, your time is up': New Orleans street to
be renamed for Black leader Norman Francis [/quote]
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Re: Name decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 12, 2020, 11:45 pm
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(HTM) https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/students/2020/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-an-update
[quote]From the start of the new academic year the David Hume
Tower will be known as 40 George Square.[/quote]
This is Hume:
(HTM) https://medium.com/@christopherrichardwadedettling/david-hume-versus-the-negro-as-an-inferior-human-race-5430648f14fa
[quote]There never was a civilized nation of any other
complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in
action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturer amongst them,
no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and
barbarous of the Whites, such as the ancient German, the present
Tartars, still have something eminent about them[/quote]
Further reading:
(HTM) https://www.abc.net.au/religion/peter-harrison-enlightened-racism/12341988
[quote]These questions become more pressing when we consider
that other Enlightenment figures held similar views. Voltaire,
lauded today as a champion of reason and free speech,
categorised the “Caffres, the Hottentots, the Topinambous” as
“children.”
...
Another Enlightenment luminary, Immanuel Kant, expressed the
view that full perfection of humanity was reserved for “the
white race”; next came the “yellow Indians,” following by “the
Negroes” and finally “the American peoples.” Americans he
regarded as ineducable and lazy.
Even the generally inoffensive John Locke, well known as an
advocate of religious toleration and liberalism, was not
entirely blameless. He was an investor in the Royal Africa
Company, an operation responsible for the transportation of tens
of thousands of West Africans to the Americas.
...
Given all this, it is not surprising that more than one
commentator has suggested that the scientific racism of the
nineteenth century had its intellectual origins in the
Enlightenment. But historical genealogies are complicated,
racism clearly predated the Enlightenment, and many different
historical factors inform the varieties of modern racism. We can
still ask, however, whether the attitudes of these Enlightenment
figures were simply background noise or were in some way
integral to their thinking. If the latter, then we may need to
view some prominent recent advocacies of a return to
Enlightenment values with a degree of caution.[/quote]
Many False Leftists make the mistake of appreciating
"Enlightenment values".
[quote]Two aspects of “Enlightenment thinking” around the race
question bear closer attention: ideas of progress and religious
scepticism. (Scare quotes are deployed here because I refer to
popular conceptions of the Enlightenment, rather than the messy
and multiple historical movements that might legitimately lay
claim to that label.)
Commitment to progress, inflected by the racial understandings
on display in Hume and others, meant that “inferior races” were
either doomed to perpetual inferiority or extinction on account
of supposed fixed and unchangeable deficiencies, or were seen as
the child-like stages of the fully developed Western European
type. Either way, the principle of progress meant that other
races would be ranked in accordance with their degree of
conformity to European societies that were imagined to epitomise
human advancement.[/quote]
The True Left is not bothered by such a description because we
view children as superior. This is why we call ourselves the
regressive left:
(HTM) https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/
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Re: Name decolonization
By: guest22 Date: October 5, 2020, 3:40 am
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Palestine is also a colonial name introduced by the Romans. What
about Canaan?
As for the so-called Enlightenment, I'm with you on this one.
Enlightnenment thinkers supported enlightened rational egoism,
in fact they were predecessors to Ayn Rand.
Kant saw Native Americans as more primitive than Blacks? That's
something new, normally racists see Blacks as the worst.
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