Posts by CJKent_band

Title couldn’t say it all. “Of course, North America was not empty when European explorers and settlers arrived — it was filled with diverse, long-established societies. They may well have become sovereign nation-states had the US not sought to purge them from…

Boxing Day traditionally lands on December 26 each year, known as “Day of Goodwill” in South Africa is about giving to the less fortunate. Boxing Day is celebrated on countries that were settled by the British Commonwealth, and originated because the…

Title couldn’t say it all. “Christmas trees and gift-giving on Dec. 24 in Germany did not spread to other European Christian cultures until the end of the 18th century and did not come to North America until the 1830s.” “How Christmas became…

Title couldn’t say it all. “The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands — the ownership and…

Title couldn’t say it all. U.S. hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt has surrendered $70 million of stolen antiquities and accepted a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities to resolve a criminal probe, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said on…

Title couldn’t say it all America’s longest-serving political prisoner Native American activist Leonard Peltier should be released from federal prison. “His trial was also happening as the FBI was trying to suppress the activities of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a…

Title couldn’t say it all. The USA national holiday celebration of Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of Native people. “...everyone comes together, and there is the turkey, you know Americans are serious about sports or genocide when…

Title couldn’t say it all. “American Super Bowl... (Christmas and Thanksgiving)...everyone comes together, and there is the turkey... You know American are serious about sports or genocide when they get a turkey...” ~ Katherine Louisa Ryan (born 30 June 1983) is a Canadian…

Title couldn’t say it all. “America was very classist and racist... It is difficult to imagine it that way now... But transport yourself back yo the seventeenth hundreds and it was very much the way it was... (and still is...)” ~ Katherine Louisa Ryan…

Title couldn’t say it all. “The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the…

Title couldn’t say it all. Our economic, class inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class....

Title couldn’t say it all. A self-portrait by the famed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sold in New York on Tuesday night for $34.9 million The painting, which was completed in 1949, is one of Kahlo's famed self-portraits that the auction house described…