X-Post from Native American: WH Petition to rescind the Wounded Knee MOHs

[OmahaBlueDog]

Rescind 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry in 1890 at Wounded Knee.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1191355

http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/rescind-20-medals-honor-awarded-soldiers-us-army-7th-cavalry-1890-wounded-knee/9X4jLlqF?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Rescind 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry who participated in the slaughter of 300 or so Lakota Sioux, mostly unarmed women and children (approximately 200) at Wounded Knee on December, 29 1890.

Require all federal agencies and arms to refer to the Wounded Knee Massacre as a "Massacre" and not a "Battle or Battlefield."

Help us rewrite history and forge a better way forward. We do not remember these tragedies to hurt, we remember to heal. We are facing the holocaust head strong, we are coming through it. We are lifting our heads and reclaiming our dignity.


Created: Dec 28, 2012

[libdem4life]

1. An amazing Paradigm Shift.

As a culture, we seem not to be willing or able to do much good or bad stuff until we've demonized or at least demoted, a certain segment. Black and white thinking is frightening because it's purpose/basis is not to include or to solve, but to disenfranchize any attempts at "grayness" or "lack of whiteness".

In another sense, black is the absolute absence of color...white is the perfect combination of all colors.

I'm with Dorothy and her friends from Kansas...bring on the Rainbow.