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So last year in the late part of November a friend on facebook shared some story.  I believe it was another police shooting or something along those lines.  A friend of hers posted a jpeg in the comments and it caught my eye.

Around Halloween time I read an article about macabre collections.  There was a picture of a white man in a seated or kneeling on one leg position, there were what appeared to be mummfied heads on the wall right behind him.  Reading about the picture it said that the man was a Portuegese born British soldier who did in fact collect mummified heads of the Māori people (New Zealand indigenous people).  The Māori believed in Mokomokai (preserving heads). Which became something to use in bartering with the Europeans.  You can google if you please to learn more of this or to see the picture I am referring to.

Anyways, back to the story.  This friends friend posted this picture but it was a meme stating that white American soldiers killed African kings and queens just to use their heads as trophies.

Totally untrue and if I hadnt have read the story, I might have taken it as gospel (except normally if anything seems crazy, or wild...I will google it to see).  I corrected her and she wasn't angry but I dont know if she took the time to google what i had told her.  I can imagine how many people seen that jpeg and went "omg" and never went any further.

Well recently I came across another one of these jpeg memes.  This time regarding Japan banning muslims (completely) and listed a bunch of stuff.  The one thing that got me going "wtf" was the use of the word "negligible" to say Japan had negligible embassies in muslim countries.  What an odd word to use (imo).

So what did I do?  Well I googled.  Guess what the result was?  The jpeg meme was wrong.  Snopes itself had a big FALSE at the top of the page.

People are believing and sharing this to further their bigotry (look the Japanese are doing it).  I can understand why some Americans look to Japan as being the ultimate beacon of freedom of speech, democracy and happy citizens but really....is googling that hard?

Next these people are gonna delete the word "kamikaze" from history so they can futher their agenda that muslims thought of this and are the only ones who have done this and that is why they are evil.

Facts, they can be powerful tools.