Obama's Kid's Book Praises Indian chief who killed U.S. general - RW Outrage

[RamboLiberal]

Sludge's and the RW's latest faux outrage that the book praises Sitting Bull. Good grief that children may learn the atrocities committed against the Native Americans & that they had the audicity to fight back. I had a children's book back in the 60's sent to me by a childhood friend of my mother's from Readers Digest that I read over & over again. It had a chapter on Cochise and how the U.S. Government massacred his family that opened my eyes that the cowboys and indians movies and TV may not be telling the true story. Led me to later read further including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

The other qualities: “smart” (Albert Einstein); “brave” (Jackie Robinson); “a healer” (Sitting Bull); “have your own song” (Billie Holiday); “strong” (Helen Keller); “honor others’ sacrifices” (Maya Lin); “kind” (Jane Addams); “that you don’t give up” (Martin Luther King Jr.); “an explorer” (Neil Armstrong); “inspiring” (Cesar Chavez); “part of a family” (Abraham Lincoln); and “proud to be an American” (George Washington).

The choice of Sitting Bull has already produced some rumblings since USA Today first wrote about the book over the weekend. The book calls Sitting Bull a man “who healed broken hearts and broken promises. It is fine that we are different, he said.” It notes in the appendix that Sitting Bull “spoke out and led his people against many policies of the United States government. He is most famous for his stunning victory in 1876 over Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/11/15/obama-book-hits-kids-section-shelves/

[CBGLuthier]

1. Custer was a murderous thug who really needed killing.

[jwirr]

2. Wish I could recommend your post.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Not only was he a murderous thug,

but his arrogance and overconfidence led him to make a series of stupid, overreaching military decisions that brought about his extermination.

[msanthrope]

9. "Custer was a cunt. The end."

I miss Deadwood.

[matt819]

4. Outrage? Really?

Do these people have any other speed, other than outrage. God, I am so tired of these people. Sometimes I really do long for the days of abc, nbc, and cbs - no cable, no internet, no 24-hour news cycle.

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[whathehell]

7. I don't find a groundcover of dead people "funny" -- regardless of its "color".

That's one ugly sense of humor you've got.

[struggle4progress]

6. Outrage over Little Big Horn is so 1870s: most Americans were over it by the time

Sitting Bull was touring with Buffalo Bill's show

[truebrit71]

8. Having just visited Little Bighorn this summer I must say fuck sludge and the RW outrage...

...where's the outrage about the way the white man fucked over the indigenous population?

Bunch of drooling morons...:eyes:

[de novo]

10. That is just pathetic.

[vaberella]

11. Better to kill millions of Indians versus the White racist men killing them. Thank you RW. n/t