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Los Angeles cancels Columbus Day
Joshua Rhett Miller ^ | 08/31/2017 | http://nypost.com

Posted on 08/31/2017 8:49:00 AM PDT by heterosupremacist

The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 on Wednesday to officially mark the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day on the city’s calendar — a day to commemorate “indigenous, aboriginal and native people.” The day will remain a paid holiday for city employees, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The vote followed a contentious hearing, during which some Italian-Americans said the switch would eradicate a key portion of their history, while others argued that city lawmakers needed to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide indigenous peoples” and dismissed the idea of celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day on a different date altogether.

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“To make us celebrate on any other day would be a further injustice,” said Chrissie Castro, vice chairwoman of the Los Angeles City-County Native American Indian Commission.

Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, a member of Oklahoma’s Wyandotte Nation tribe, had pushed for the change, saying Wednesday that the move would provide “restorative justice.” In a blog post prior to the vote earlier this week, O’Farrell said the “historical record is unambiguous in documenting the horrors” Christopher Columbus and his men imposed on the native people in present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

1 posted on 08/31/2017 8:49:00 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

They hate Italians!

I knew it!


2 posted on 08/31/2017 8:53:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: heterosupremacist

I propose we rename Columbus Day “F$$k You Liberals Day.”


3 posted on 08/31/2017 8:53:18 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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To: heterosupremacist

The Y & . Tribe.

One of the better known tribes.

“Sir! The Indians are attacking the fort!”

“Which tribe?”

“The Wyandots, Sir!”

“Them again? Throw out some casino chips and they’ll go away.”


4 posted on 08/31/2017 8:57:30 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: heterosupremacist

> city lawmakers needed to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide indigenous peoples” <

Wait a minute. Indigenous peoples were also attacked by other indigenous peoples. No one has clean hands here.

And for the non-believers, here’s an article about the Indian vs. Indian Crow Creek Massacre. There are many examples like this one in history. Not that it matters to today’s liberals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre


5 posted on 08/31/2017 8:58:21 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: heterosupremacist

“to officially mark the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day on the city’s calendar “

GREAT IDEA.

I think that Spain and Italy should both use the 2nd monday in October to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in their respective homelands. But the Islamist imperialists/colonist hordes aren’t going to like it and neither with the intolerant anti-West Left.


6 posted on 08/31/2017 8:58:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Leaning Right

Aztlan was imperialist too!


7 posted on 08/31/2017 8:59:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist

The Hate America crowd in LA is now indigenous. California needs to secede.


8 posted on 08/31/2017 9:01:06 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Just because the Indians started out in Massachusetts and ended up defending Santa Monica doesn’t mean they didn’t know how to fight!


9 posted on 08/31/2017 9:01:22 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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>is unambiguous in documenting the horrors” Christopher Columbus and his men imposed on the native people in present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Y'all got damn dictators in Haiti and that ain't t'be blamed on Christopher Columbus now is it? Kind of like blaming Jonestown's failed Socialist homofascist love cult experiment on the Kool Aid Corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier François Duvalier (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swa dyvalje]; 14 April 1907 – 21 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971.[3] He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform and successfully thwarted a coup d’état in 1958. His rule, based on a purged military, a rural militia known as the Tonton Macoute, and the use of cult of personality, resulted in the murder of 30,000 to 60,000 Haitians and the exile of many more.[3] Prior to his rule, Duvalier was a physician by profession. His profession and expertise in the field acquired him the nickname “Papa Doc”. He would run in a unannounced one day election, would "earn" a second term. He took the title of President for Life in 1964, after another faulty election, and remained in power until he died in 1971. He was succeeded by his son, Jean‑Claude, who was nicknamed “Baby Doc”.[4]
10 posted on 08/31/2017 9:02:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist
>is unambiguous in documenting the horrors” Christopher Columbus and his men imposed on the native people in present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Y'all got damn dictators in Haiti and that ain't t'be blamed on Christopher Columbus now is it?

Kind of like blaming Jonestown's failed Socialist homofascist love cult experiment on the Kool Aid Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier

François Duvalier (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃swa dyvalje]; 14 April 1907 – 21 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971.[3] He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform and successfully thwarted a coup d’état in 1958. His rule, based on a purged military, a rural militia known as the Tonton Macoute, and the use of cult of personality, resulted in the murder of 30,000 to 60,000 Haitians and the exile of many more.[3]

Prior to his rule, Duvalier was a physician by profession. His profession and expertise in the field acquired him the nickname “Papa Doc”. He would run in a unannounced one day election, would "earn" a second term. He took the title of President for Life in 1964, after another faulty election, and remained in power until he died in 1971. He was succeeded by his son, Jean‑Claude, who was nicknamed “Baby Doc”.[4]

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11 posted on 08/31/2017 9:03:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist

Pushed by the LA “Latinos”?

THEY of all people should be celebrating Columbus. Wihtout Columbus you don’t have the Spanish conquerors that followed him in the Western Hemisphere. Without the Spanish, they - people living in and around Mexico City and part of the Aztec/Mextec culture there would not have been north of the Rio Grande.

There were no major Aztec or Mextec settlements more than 200 miles north of Mexico City. The “Mexicans” that came north were first brought north by the Spanish and used to quell opposition from the Native Americans they encountered here.

The European Spanish elite in charge of Mexico became the Mexican elite, and their descendants became the upper classes of Mexico. It is no more a “Native American” society than the U.S. or Canada. BUT Columbus they - “Latinos” - could rightly celebrate. Without him, they’d still be down in Mexico City honoring the Aztec Gods.


12 posted on 08/31/2017 9:03:55 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Leaning Right

> city lawmakers needed to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide indigenous peoples

So no government aid funds to pay for abortions in the third world. Sounds good.


13 posted on 08/31/2017 9:05:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist

Columbus sailed under the flag of Spain. Los Angeles is part of a former Spanish colony and the name is Spanish for The Angels.

As for “indigenous people”, people are not indigenous to North America. The incorrectly called “indigenous people” are more accurately called “first settlers”.

The Los Angeles City Council is inhabited by morons ignorant of history.


14 posted on 08/31/2017 9:05:24 AM PDT by magellan
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To: blueunicorn6

This is going to be interesting:
<>No beer.... Skill brought to the new world by Germans
<>No one taller than 5’5” allowed in the city
<>Loin cloths only....Well that is pretty much the outfit at the beach and shopping mall.    /s


15 posted on 08/31/2017 9:05:42 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Wuli

When are the Latinos going to stop clinging to Spanish, the language of their conquerors? Their cultural pride is very queer.


16 posted on 08/31/2017 9:06:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist

Should we change America’s name? Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci is best known for his namesake: the continents of North and South America.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 9:07:10 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ptsal
No accordions.

#CulturalAppropriation

18 posted on 08/31/2017 9:07:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: heterosupremacist

If Los Angeles would like to honor someone who actually stepped foot in North America, I humbly volunteer.


19 posted on 08/31/2017 9:07:23 AM PDT by gdani (Everyone is a snowflake these days)
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To: ptsal

No Chevys.


20 posted on 08/31/2017 9:07:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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