Melissa Gutierrez's Blog, page 192
September 8, 2012
"The destruction of the ‘Indians’ of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide..."
“The destruction of the ‘Indians’ of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. […] Far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used to symbolize the European settlement of the Americas, the emblem most congruent with reality would be a pyramid of skulls.”
- American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World - David E. Stannard. (via decaying-organic-matter)
- American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World - David E. Stannard. (via decaying-organic-matter)
September 7, 2012
colestclair:
infinite list of favourite movies ∞ the virgin...
infinite list of favourite movies ∞ the virgin suicides
“So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls… but only that we had loved them… and that they hadn’t heard us calling… still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms… where they went to be alone for all time… and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
