
A disturbing article from the Telegraph on this year's Jamestown Celebrations and how they are becoming nothing more than a DWEM (that's Dead White European Male) guilt wallow...
An exhibition by the US National Park Service, which manages the land on which the original settlement was built, plays down the achievements of the first 107 settlers, who brought with them the English language and the traditions of English justice and common law that still underpin modern America.Maybe we should just get on our tiny boats and leave ?
(SNIP)
Edward Rothstein warned that the "overall impact" of the exhibition was "only to diminish a visitor's sense of English culture".
Organisers of the Jamestown 2007 events justify their decision to ban the word "celebration" by saying: "Many facets of Jamestown's history were not cause for celebration." Galleries at the exhibition place heavy emphasis on the local Indians, who are described as being "in harmony with the life that surrounds them" and living in an "advanced complex society".
And is any mention of Christianity allowed at Jamestown or not ?
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