Chris Matthews Quotes
Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
Matthews, Chris. Hardball with Chris Matthews. MSNBC.
Up until 1970 many Australian Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and “adopted” or brought up in institutions to “civilize” them. In 1997 the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission found the practice “genocidal.”
The problem was that the British had adopted an Indian Civil Service system and instituted an educational system to train Indians. The Hindus attended the schools and did very well on the examinations. The Muslims, however, resisted the secular education, and most of their young men could not pass the examinations. See {616924} & {616925}.
No one at the time knew the answer to the question but we do today. The colonial whites brought small pox with them to the new world. The whites had many generations of building immunity to small pox so that only a small percentage of whites who contracted the disease would die. The Indians, however, had never before been in contact with small pox and their immune. Their systems had not had the time to evolve resistance to the disease. The same thing occurred with the Spanish conquistadors and the native people in Central and South America only the percentage of death was much higher than the Indians of North America—possibly due to more sexual and other interpersonal contact, possibly climate, and possibly the North American Indians were better nourished and generally healthier to better withstand the disease which wiped out the vast majority of the Indians of Central and South America.
The graphic is the famous Benjamin West painting of the treaty signing between the Lenape Indians and William Penn in 1686. Tenoughan was one of the Indians depicted at the signing but we do not know which one.
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
There had been no tradition of self government or even rights in Germany and some like Hamilton thought that the immigrants from such a totalitarian tradition would not handle the relative freedom of America. They were wrong.
“Cleaned out” meant destroyed. He had been a strong advocate of peace with whites. See {610679} .
At the time, some Palestinian Arabs claimed exclusive rights to the territory on the grounds that Arabs had dominated the area for the longest period of time. They gave no credence to the fact that the Jews had dominated the area and it was the center of their kingdom for many years before—that Jews had constantly lived in the area of longer than the Arabs, nor did they give any credence to the fact that the Christians had conquered the area from the Muslims during the Crusades.
Christopher John Matthews is a retired American political commentator, talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until March 2, 2020, when he announced, on what turned out to be his final show, that he was retiring. This followed an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier. On that occasion, he stated: "The younger generation's out there ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in media, in fighting for their causes. They're improving the workplace."
