[lbo-talk] Ward Churchill responds to U. of Colorado investigation]

[B.]

I learned in public school that smallpox was
deliberately inflicted upon natives by whites. And
this in the red state of Texas.

"Smallpox Champion" by Fugazi, 1993:

Smallpox champion, U.S. of A.
Give natives the blankets warm as the grave
This is the pattern, cut from the cloth -- this is the
pattern, designed to take you right out.

Here is the frontier with winters so cold
Greed informs action, where action makes bold
To take all the cotton that's cut from the stalk
Weave in the disease that's gonna take you right out

What is good for the future? What was good for the
past.
Bury your heart, U.S. of A. History rears up to spit
in your face.
You saw what you wanted, you took what you saw.
But we know how you got it: Your method equals wipe
out.

The end of the frontier and all that you own, under
the blanket of all that you've done
Memory serves us to serve you yet,
Memory serves us to never let you wipe out

Smallpox champion, you'll get yours

-B.

Charles Brown wrote:

"So, the 'offiicial' , ok, evidence from white people
says that the small pox came from a blanket or blankets."