Honoring Indigenous Communities
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Trevor unpacks the Columbus Day debate and whether it's honoring a genocidal colonialist or erasing history. In the field, Michael Kosta explores the conflict between wealthy Hamptons dwellers and the Shinnecock, an indigenous tribe nearby, and Aasif Mandvi reports on Native American sports mascots. Also, actor Jason Momoa discusses "Gather," his documentary about Native American communities' fight to reclaim their food and land.
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| 0:39.1 | Here in the United States, this coming Monday is Columbus Day. The holiday celebrating Christopher |
| 0:45.7 | Columbus for stumbling ass backwards into the new world and then killing most of the people who lived |
| 0:50.8 | there. But for a lot of Americans, that story isn't as charming as it once was. You likely learned |
| 0:57.3 | this line in school in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 2020, Columbus wore orange paint. |
| 1:05.6 | Demonstrators around the country have been calling for the removal of statues of Christopher Columbus |
| 1:10.4 | saying the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native people. |
| 1:15.8 | The Christopher Columbus statue in Boston defaced specifically beheaded. |
| 1:21.1 | In Minneapolis, protesters tied ropes around the neck about Christopher Columbus statue and |
| 1:27.3 | they pulled it down. Demonstrators cheering as they brought down a Christopher Columbus statue |
| 1:31.8 | in Baltimore and it was then dumped into the Baltimore inner harbor. Oh, look at that. Columbus |
| 1:38.6 | is still exploring the oceans. Don't ever stop doing what you love. But guys, look, for real, |
| 1:44.1 | we need to think about whether it's a good idea to tear down these statues. Because statues |
| 1:51.0 | are where the birds poop. What are they supposed to do now? Hold it in and I feel especially |
| 1:55.5 | bad for the people who made these statues. You put all that work in and you don't know if this guy's |
| 2:00.0 | going to get canceled in a hundred years. That's so unfair. That's why beheading the statue is the |
| 2:04.2 | best solution. Because you can save the body and just pop on the head of someone else. Like Shaq, |
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