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Refusing Jamestown revisionism: four hundred years after the founding of Jamestown, revisionists are accusing those first English settlers of genocidal racism, but a look at the facts tells a different story.(CULTURE WAR)
This year is the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the first English settlement to survive in what is now the United States. But what has previously been celebrated as a triumph of Western law and culture is remembered with increasingly negative, even hostile, press toward the first settlers. The word "celebration" was excluded from "Jamestown 400" publications in favor of "commemoration." Mary Wade, secretary for the Virginia Council of Indians, said in a radio interview in 2000 that "you can't celebrate an invasion." And in a 2006 article in America's oldest newspaper, the Virginia Gazette, reporter Lew Leadbeater opined:
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