They'll take Manhattan — but who's they?

The NYT headquarters, like all the buildings on that pestilent island, stands on land swindled from the Delaware Indians. But the Delawares and other tribes of the Woodland period (beginning 3,000 B.C. ) displaced the people of the Archaic period, (7,000 -3,000 B.C., and those land grabbers took it from the original Paleo-Indians, 10,000 - 7,000 B.C. There’s a lot of sorting out to be done here before the reparation checks start flowing.

But let’s start small: The Times is now advocating the return of Mt. Rushmore to the Lakota Indians (who took the land by conquest from the Cherokees in 1776, who in turn had taken it from the Kiowa) because it didn’t originally belong to white settlers. Okay, but I’ll be chortling as I watch the population of Manhattan board ships taking them back to Europe, Africa, and points east. In fact, I’ll throw a party.

(By the way, the NYT’s lumping the United States and India and Nazi Germany, on the left, below, is taken from its new propaganda textbook now being employed in our schools across the country, “The 1619 Project”. And as a further by the way, India’s caste system was imposed by Mongol invaders and separated the castes by skin shades: the darker the lower. That’s why Unilever’s now-discontinued skin lightener cream was so popular with East Asians.)