A second video on the topic of scalping, because well, it’s a popular question. Here we dive a bit more into the history.
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In the near distant past, American Indians found it to be illegal to practice their religious beliefs. This seems incredible given that our First Amendment gives us the right to free worship, but what exactly that meant has long been debated.
In this short video, I go over the history of the right to worship freely, and how American Indian’s history has impacted this.
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A two question type of video. First, how did Indigenous peoples feel about non-hetero individuals? Well, it was complicated, much like it is today.
What about nomadic tribes? Well that is much easier. Yes, and I look at some of those tribes.
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Did Europeans bring the practice of scalping to the Americas? No, but the did help spread it a bit. But long before any European set foot on this continent, scalping was practiced quite widely.
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For much of history, Jews were not welcomed in Europe. They would be expelled from one area after the next, and serious persecution continued to happen. To fight that, a man named Hirsch would set up the Jewish Colonization Association, and set up Jewish colonies around the world.
One of those colonies was in Argentina, where they flourished for a few years. But anti-semitism, and the Second World War would catch up with them. In this video, I explore that history.
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It’s been mentioned that Serbians and Israelites have had a very long friendship, dating back to Roman times. Yet that really isn’t the truth. While Israel and Jews have sold weapons to the Serbs on a number of occasions, which helped in various conflicts, and Zionism did have a founding in Serbia, the friendship just wasn’t something that stood the test of time.
In this video, I dive into that history, trying to trace it back to Roman times. I look at the history of Zionism, as well as current relations between Israel and Serbia.
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Were Quakers and Mennonites persecuted in the US? Well yes, but largely in the same manner any religious minority was. But there were some positive times as well, especially after Pennsylvania was set up.
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The question was asked, why didn’t Christianity spread to Asia. Well it did, but often in weird ways. Such as with the man who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, and then waged a Civil War with China. Or with the Kahn dynasty, which was filled with Christian princesses. So it definitely did spread.
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We all have that one friend who loves to drop this trivia bomb on us, that there were Presidents before George Washington. Yet they never really dive more into it than just that.
The problem is, when we do dive into the question, it becomes clear that those previous Presidents weren’t really Presidents at all. They didn’t serve in an executive branch, and really amounted to more of a ceremonial title. That and they served under a very different government and constitution than what we have now.
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Who are the Hamites? And why would some African Americans claim to be such?
The answer is rather strange as it centers around slavery, and the Israelites. In the mid 19th century, a group of African Americans made the claim that they were Hamites, and thus descendants of the Israelites. Yet, the idea of Hamites really originated in the Southern states, as a way to justify slavery. And that’s why the question is a bit of a mess.
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