moniquill:

perfectlyperfectcarlos:

clatterbane: tassledown: festivecharliefoundme: bad-dominicana: setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: neon-casket: herr-lucifer: arcaneimages: Skeleton of teenage girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown colony http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-girl-confirms-cannibalism-at-jamestown-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html# ‘MERICAS FOUNDING FATHERS Y’ALL wut Happy White History Month! awww and they called all the indigenous people cannibals instead? que bellos! Yeah, I have heard NOTHING about this either…sigh. I’m surprised this even made it to a single news station,actually. Guess they were busy calling Trayvon a thug. Yaay, history! This is an older story, but I will always reblog anything to do with it. http://urocyon.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/wetiko-jamestown-styley/ Okay, yes, there was cannibalism- but I think you need to understand WHY IT HAPPENED before you start getting all pissy about this. When the settlers arrived at Jamestown, many were sick and dying. Eventually, crops didn’t grow properly due to the drought and unstable conditions led to one of the worst winters ever experienced by the colonists. Now, without food, without animals to hunt, many began to starve and die off from illness. It wasn’t like the Jamestown settlers simply ATE people. No, they would eat the dead in order to survive. Please, please, do you research. It was eat the dead or become the dead. Make a choice. Most, even though it is crude and sickening, would chose to eat the body of the dead neighbor or relative- because the humans have a basic need to survive.

AHAHAAHAH ARE YOU FUCKING EVEN DOING THIS?

Ok, let me break this down for you:

White invaders showed up for the express purposes of stealing land and resources. They were -shit- at planning, and came with no knowledge of farming or implements to help them do it, and they set up shop in a brackish swamp.

Then when they predictably failed at life THEY ATE FOLKS.

Folks they probably murdered for the express purposes of eating.

Seriously, go back and do some reading that isn’t through heroic colonialism glasses.

This link is already up there, but I am posting it again because you seem to have missed it the first time:

http://urocyon.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/wetiko-jamestown-styley/

And this one too:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/02/jamestown-settlers-were-cannibals-and-more-reasons-the-colony-was-hell.html

This was not a ‘We crashed in the mountains and had to make a hard choice while awaiting rescue’ situation. This was a ‘look, a group of monstrous humans were fucking monsters (what with the raping and pillaging and murdering they were so fond of), and also they ate each other’ situation.