Decolonise Your Mind
June 22, 2019
A title I’ve stolen shamelessly from Orwell & Goode:
A new superstitious belief has emerged in some areas of Mozambique - that bald men have gold in their head. However, the head has to be taken to a witchdoctor who will use magical powers to extract the gold - and make them rich. As a result, police say five bald men have been killed in central Mozambique.
All cultures all equal, David.
Posted by: [+] | June 22, 2019 at 09:22
bald men have gold in their head.
Been telling my wife that for years.
Posted by: Pete | June 22, 2019 at 09:54
Mozambique has my favourite flag - a machine gun and a shovel. Two things close to their collective heart. Bag 'em and bury 'em.
Posted by: Tony Tea | June 22, 2019 at 09:57
Posted by: Frank | June 22, 2019 at 10:26
New rumour, Democrats taste like chicken.
Posted by: Craig Austin | June 22, 2019 at 12:08
There’s gold in them thar heads!
Posted by: Pogonip | June 22, 2019 at 12:10
I see a market for wigs and Rogaine, anyone who wants in on the ground floor of this enterprise, let me know.
Speaking of decolonization, in California (but of course) we find mission bells to be highly problematic and must be airbrushed out.
I notice that an alleged tribal guy going by the rather Spanish name of Valentin Lopez is triggered by a bell he never sees (it is on campus), but can't be bothered to decolonize his name. It is almost as if he has some other agenda, particularly as this guy in his late 60s previously had a large case of the sads because the Pope canonized Father Junipero Serra who founded a couple of missions. He also seems to have no issue with the name of the college and town (Holy Cross in English) - or half the towns and other named items in California, for that matter.
I know you are wondering about the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Wonder no more,
Kumbaya. OTOH, they were apparently also big into property rights and killing. "Warfare was not uncommon for the Mutsun. Infringement of territorial rights was the most frequent cause of war. "
Very problematic.
*(One guy and student straphangers, apparently)
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | June 22, 2019 at 12:55
Mozambique has my favourite flag
Mozambique has historically been fairly unpretentious and far less duplicitous about their intentions, culture, and intentions than most African states.
When Mugabe went shopping around for advice in the 1980s, other African states gave long winded speeches about black empowerment. Mozambique's leader simply said "whatever you do, hang on to your white people".
Mozambique may be a deadly hellhole, but they're quite honest about it.
Posted by: billdehaan | June 22, 2019 at 17:34
“‘We conquered you, we controlled you, we destroyed you’ — that’s what those symbols mean to us,” Lopez, who serves as chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, explained. The Amah Mutsun are descendants of the indigenous people who were taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz near California’s Central Coast.
Human Sacrificer Americans may have had reason at the time to be resentful of Conquistador Americans. And a racially mixed descendant of both may, fifteen generations later, feel resentment and shame measured out according to the proportion of human sacrificers and conquistadors in his 32768 ancestry slots.
But now that demographic processes have blurred and expanded their ancestral affiliations into the new grouping known as "Hispanics", it's important that they learn to rechannel their internal differences against a common enemy, to unload all their ancestral resentment and shame onto Anglo Protestants, whose bad intentions operate even across hemispheres and backwards in time. Learn from the dot-Indians.
Posted by: Alan | June 22, 2019 at 17:47
I've long thought we should disentangle ourselves completely from the dark continent and let nature take its course.
Posted by: Trevor | June 22, 2019 at 19:42
De-colon-ise.
Just a hint as to where their ideology comes from.
Posted by: Steve E | June 22, 2019 at 19:46
Not entirely unrelated.
That.
Posted by: Clam | June 22, 2019 at 19:49
Yes, I envision them howling with laughter when their latest nuttiness gets a respectful discussion in The New York Times—which may very well be in on the gag.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 22, 2019 at 20:24
You just don't understand the alternate way of science. Or something.
Posted by: Mr. Saturn | June 22, 2019 at 20:26
I must not understand gravity either, I dropped a can of chicken/rice soup on my foot.
Ow.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 22, 2019 at 21:29
Stupidity is a culture now?
Rhetorical question.
Posted by: Hopp Singg | June 22, 2019 at 21:36
There isn't one of those bald men with gold in their heads that wouldn't trade the gold for hair.
Posted by: Duke | June 22, 2019 at 21:36
https://abcnews.go.com/US/rat-falls-ceiling-customers-table-buffalo-wild-wings/story?id=63876719&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_twopack_hed
Well, at least they didn’t charge her for it.
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 22, 2019 at 21:58
Awwww.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/stay-game
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 22, 2019 at 22:12
Sounds all very Mozambleak, really.
Posted by: TimT | June 22, 2019 at 23:20
Why has Brexit been called off? (If it has—American reporters are pretty dumb so they may have it wrong.)
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 23, 2019 at 00:20
I’m pretty sure this is the result of the article’s writer not being fluent in English, and I sympathize—I’ve pulled some real howlers in Spanish—but I still got a chuckle out of the burglar being “rendered useless.” 😄
https://topstyletodaycom.com/ronald-stolarczyk-5-quick-details-you-must-know/
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | June 23, 2019 at 02:51
Wouldn’t a single case of one baldy not having gold in his head disprove the theory? Or is this thing akin to Marxism and Congressional investigations where the lack of success in one instance just strengthens the certainty that the next head will be full of gold?
Posted by: Adam | June 23, 2019 at 11:44
Wouldn’t a single case of one baldy not having gold in his head disprove the theory?
Well, those South Pacific cargo cults seemed to go on forever, even though there was a persistent absence of Cargo...
Posted by: pst314 | June 23, 2019 at 14:14
A new superstitious belief has emerged in some areas of Mozambique
But all cultures are equally valid, except ours, of course.
Posted by: Jay Guevara | June 23, 2019 at 18:43
Wouldn’t a single case of one baldy not having gold in his head disprove the theory?
Not a single catastrophic anthropogenic global warming prediction has come true, but we still have trillions being spent on "carbon". Human beings are terrifyingly bad at accurate pattern recognition. It's why statistics and probability are a university-level subject.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | June 23, 2019 at 22:25
Almost as much fun as the penis theft epidemic in the Sudan.
https://www.alternet.org/2013/03/penis-snatching-rise-africas-genital-stealing-crime-wave-hits-countryside/
Posted by: Jay Harper | June 24, 2019 at 17:38
Almost as much fun as the penis theft epidemic in the Sudan.
Hey, if they can throw lightning, surely they can snatch penis. Although, "snatch penis" strikes me as an oxymoron.
Posted by: Steve E | June 25, 2019 at 01:57