Greetings Everyone,
When I learned that I have a Native American heritage, I wanted to do some research. I didn't know what a "mound" was so I did some searching and I came across some articles that the city of Oxford, Alabama destroyed a burial mound in order to build a Sam's Club there. I was curious about what was inside a burial mound. When I look at the pictures on Google I was in shock. There were skeletons of Native Americans from the past inside those mounds.
The small phrase "Money is the root of all evil" is worth over millions of sick,twisted and degrading examples and meanings. The moral teachings of the difference between what is right and what is wrong is tossed into the wind and thrown away like garbage. The fact that the mayor and city council of Oxford, Alabama decided to destroy a ancient Native American mound in order to build a Sam's Club is never ever going to be a subject in the past. This sick and treacherous decision will be in everyone's mind forever. I thought the state of Alabama loves to embrace the subject of history. My thoughts could be wrong. Maybe the truth is some of today's citizens of Alabama loves to embrace the history of their own people, the events of the Civil War, the Confederate Flag that some of the citizens of Alabama have embraced so much in the past and the present, the flag that some of the white citizens of Alabama hold in their front yards so proudly as they stretch out flowing with the wind, showing all its so-called glory, sticking its chest out and embracing it's ugly past. And how about those high and mighty women of slave owners who wear those huge dresses? The sun must have risen, shine, and set on their rich rear ends during their days of luxury, while my people were wearing rags to cover our nudity, and wearing scars, dirt and sweat that contributed from hard labor, abuse and rape. Some of the citizens of Alabama just love love love those old plantation homes that were built centuries ago and constant renovation is done over the years in order for it to stay the same way. And finally, how about those slave owners and Confederate Soldiers that the citizens of Alabama are constantly build monuments and memorials for? No one is better than anyone in the world. No one is no different that anybody else in the world. To even think that one race is better that another race is ignorant as well as arrogant.
For centuries, some Caucasian people (not all Caucasian people) have labeled anyone who is different from them as not human and as property (slavery), as indecent, as savages, as terrorist, even as a different kind of breed of an animal. For centuries, some Caucasians (not all Caucasian people) have made anybody who was different from them feel low in terms of self-esteem. For centuries, some Caucasian people (not all Caucasian people) made up stereotypes about anyone who was different from them. For centuries, did all these things simply because they didn't understand the cultures and traditions of anyone who was different, different in terms of religion and in terms of different languages.
Ladies and gentlemen as you read this blog entry, please keep in mind that I do love all people around the world, including Caucasian people and please understand that the paragraph that I just written is concerning Caucasians who don't like anyone who is different from them. I do believe that there are compassionate Caucasian people in the United States of America who see different kinds of people as individuals and care about who they are on the inside. I do believe that there are compassionate Caucasians in the United States of America who see past of what other people look like and only see what people are on the inside regarding personality. I do believe the fact that there are loving, kindhearted, caring and gentle Caucasians in the United States of America as well as around the world who are compassionate of different kinds of people and other things and issues. I hate racism and it is an ugly thing that should be a sin. I wish all people around the world would love the way GOD made all of them.
Whether it is realized or not, the mayor along with the city council of Oxford, Alabama are suppose to be role models, leaders to not only their citizens of Oxford but to the citizens of the United States of America as well as the entire world. The mayor along with the city council of Oxford, Alabama are even being watched by children and teenagers, who are students of elementary, middle, and high schools. Not only the mayor and the city council are leaders, but they are also teachers and role models, and the entire city of Oxford, Alabama taught a very bad lesson. The leaders of Oxford, Alabama has taught not only the adult citizens but also to children an ignorant statement: Only money is more important than humanity and morals. The city leaders of Oxford the adult and children who are citizens in the world another bad lesson: That only certain kinds of history are important. This hurts me because ignorance can be passed down from generation to generation. The truth is: All kinds of history is important. All displays and exhibits of past evidence are important because they all tell stories of how people lived and how the survived in the world. The mayor and city councils deprived the children from learning pieces of history that was proof of a Native American sacred civilizations really existed, civilizations that they read about in their social studies, geography and history books. How are we, the people of today, present and future are suppose to learn anything if people like the city leaders of Oxford, Alabama constantly take the past away? I'm afraid that people like the city leaders of Oxford, Alabama will keep on destroying and erasing pieces of the past until it gets to the point that we the people of the world will forget where we come from. Not only did the city leaders of Oxford, Alabama deprived all of us from learning about our Native American ancient civilization, but they have disrupted the final resting place of human beings. This year in Oxford, Alabama, the Native Americans who were buried in that ancient mound had their human rights taken away from them. These human beings are our ancestors, our great great great grandmothers and grandfathers, our aunts, our uncles, our cousins, our nieces and nephews, from a generation to another. This is the truth about the human race: All of us have Native American in our blood. Caucasians, Native Americans, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos, Pacific Islanders and other races all around the world are all the same. We have the same blood, the same body parts, and we all breathe the same way. Like the Holocaust in Germany several years ago, destroying the Native American mound was "a crime against humanity".
http://www.deepfriedkudzu.com/2009/07/oxford-alabama-destroying-1500-year-old.html
http://teachingthevaluesofpeace.blogspot.com/2009/09/good-bye-indian-burial-mounds-hello.html
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/01/professor_says_900-year-old_in.html
http://www.oxfordalabama.org/
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