Hair Ad/Scalping Scandal

[aduidarnenye]

The city I live in was founded by a guy from England named Cornwallis. Because of that there are a lot of stuff named in his honour. But in recent times it's come to light that he put a bounty on Mi'kmaq (the local native tribe) scalps so he's a huge no-no in terms of naming honours. There's been a lot of contraversy about having his name removed from a lot of stuff and a lot of history re-writing to make him out as evil as can be.

So anyways, this ad for hair extensions was shot in front of his statue and it whipped up a bunch of contraversy. The dude who made the ad looks pretty innocent in an ignorant type of way to me, but a bunch of people are saying he did it on purpose.

I posted another news story a few days ago and don't like doing so many close together but I thought it would amuse BG. And so, the story:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1179165.html

A Halifax business is apologizing to Mi’kmaq people after running an advertisement featuring models holding human hair extensions in front of a statue of Edward Cornwallis.

Kevin Stanhope, the owner of Hairdressers’ Market Inc., said he had no idea that Cornwallis, the Englishman tasked with founding Halifax, offered a bounty for the scalps of Mi’kmaq men, women and children in 1749 and 1750.

"Whose statue it was, we knew nothing about. Absolutely nothing," he said Thursday.

Hairdressers’ Market sells hairdressing supplies and its ad in the April edition of Faces Magazine showed four young women laughing and holding packets of human hair.

Stanhope only discovered Cornwallis’s grisly past when Mi’kmaq people contacted him to ask him what he was thinking.

Stanhope, who is from New Brunswick, said he got the models to pose at the statue because it had multiple levels and was near his south-end business.

"Who would suspect? It’s a public park. If there’s such an offensive connection to it, why’s it there? Why aren’t there warning signs on it?" he asked.

Kyle Turk, publisher of Faces, likewise pleaded ignorance.

"I didn’t even know what that statue was. Obviously, we wouldn’t have published it if we had known."

He said the ad has been pulled from the May edition and would be taken off the website.

Dan Paul, Mi’kmaq historian and the author of We Were Not The Savages, was one of the people who contacted Stanhope. He said he was appalled when he saw the photograph and wanted to find out if it was created out of ignorance or racism.

After exchanging emails with Stanhope, he believes no racism was involved.

"I think it exemplifies the ignorance of Nova Scotia’s history," Paul said. "It was the actual hope of Cornwallis to wipe out the Mi’kmaq population on the mainland of Nova Scotia, which at the time included New Brunswick. You’re talking about most of the Mi’kmaq population."

Paul, who has long campaigned against the statue in Cornwallis Park near Halifax’s train station, described the governor’s explicit targeting of women and children as "sick in the extreme."

The plaque on the statue briefly outlines Cornwallis’s short career in Halifax but says nothing of the scalping proclamations.

Paul said that’s indicative of Nova Scotia’s "hidden history."

He compared it to the 1946 incident in which Viola Desmond was arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a New Glasgow theatre.

The Dexter government gave Desmond, who was a beautician, a posthumous pardon this month.

"How many Nova Scotians knew that had happened? I would say very few, (outside of) the black population," Paul said. "Nova Scotia has diligently crafted an image that it is and has been for some time a racially equal society, which it wasn’t and to a large degree still isn’t. If it was, you wouldn’t see Cornwallis’s statue down at the end of Barrington Street.

"I’m not trying to erase his name from the history of this province. You can’t erase Hitler’s name from Germany’s history either but to continue to honour him is almost impossible to believe."

Paul said the incident points to a failure in the province’s education system.

"Are we doing a good job of teaching history to our children here in Nova Scotia? The answer is no. If you want to prevent the wrongs of the past from happening again, you have to teach the population about the past," he said.

Stanhope said he agreed with Paul. He’s ordering a copy of We Were Not The Savages and has signed Paul’s online petition calling for the removal of the statue.

[Niiro]

Don't idolize historical figures unless you're prepared to overlook certain aspects of their history.

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Franklin liked the whores.

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Jackson fucked slaves.

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You don't wanna know some of the shit Columbus did.

[Pirian]

Don't idolize historical figures unless you're prepared to overlook certain aspects of their history.

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Franklin liked the whores.

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Jackson fucked slaves.

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You don't wanna know some of the shit Columbus did.

Forgot one

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People are flawed

[Niiro]

I think there's a fine line between "flawed" and "rape and murder".

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Your sig adds to the irony.

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Tho to be fair the people raped and murdered weren't white, so they weren't really people.

[Pirian]

I think there's a fine line between "flawed" and "rape and murder".

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Your sig adds to the irony.

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Tho to be fair the people raped and murdered weren't white, so they weren't really people.

There's no line there when one can be included in the definition of the other

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People who rape and murder are obviously flawed, though obviously more flawed than someone who shoplifts

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spoilers are fun

[Vuitton]

yo dawg, i heard you like spoilers ...

[Benevolentone]

So I put spoilers in your spoilers...

[Clerix]

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so

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like

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yea

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i heard you like spoilers?

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also...

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this thread is epic.

[Ksandra]

stop abusing the spoilers. That's against forum rules you know...

[Shalyn]

Isn't this just like the rest of Canada? I mean, up til I think the 1990's we were still taking children from Native parents and teaching them to be white. How often have I even heard of that in school? I only knew from my own research, but of course Canada is racially equal and has been since we banned slavery, right? It's propoganda, and it's everywhere. Good luck to this guy trying to get rid of it.

[Plow]

Yes, everyone's relationships with native Americans are full of bald-faced lies.

[Khajit]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18442...ind-dicks.html
Finding out the American revolution was started not because of British oppression and had more to do with the founding fathers doing all the things George Bush did during his term to the nth degree with the British is hilarious.