Posted on 10/12/2014 4:42:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tomorrow used to be called Columbus Day, but no more. Thanks to Seattle, it’s now “Indigenous Peoples’ Day!” Sound stupid? That’s only because it is.
This week the city council of Seattle voted unanimously to rename the day—within the city only; Columbus Day as we know it is a federal holiday—because, like with everything these days, some whiny people found a way to be offended by something that doesn’t really affect them at all and demand their grievance be addressed. Progressive governments such as Seattle’s eagerly cave if the crying crowd has a non-white face in front of it.
In Seattle that face belongs to Indians. For years, progressive Indian tribes, when not trying to convince people that the name “Washington Redskins” is offensive, have been campaigning with other progressives against Columbus Day. Progressives always have hated Christopher Columbus, viewing him as nothing more than a white, genocidal monster who enslaved natives and spread disease to wipe them out.
It’s really almost as stupid as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” sounds.
Like a lot of stupid ideas, this one came from the schools. In the days before the city acted, its school district did. The school board passed a resolution that included, but was not limited to, this nugget of dumb, “WHEREAS, the School Board seeks to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and institutionalized racism, and to promote awareness, understanding, and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of our District…” (Read the whole thing, it’s all amazingly crazy.)
A parade of progressive grievance groups threw support behind it, and the city council passed the change 7-0.
Councilman Bruce Harrell said, “We are celebrating the triumph of the indigenous people. We are not reveling in the pain of our past, but indeed rejoicing in the triumph… In honoring Indigenous People’s Day we are honoring the best of our self, the best of the city.”
This politically correct garbage stems from progressives’ hatred of the fact that Europeans more than 500 years ago figured out the planet had another half. They seem to think no one would have ever made it around the globe had it not been for Christopher Columbus.
They cite the fact that Columbus, and those who followed, brought diseases with them. Many natives died because they had never been exposed to those diseases and, therefore, had no natural immunity to them. But they act as though Columbus sailed with the Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria, and the Petri Dish. Columbus didn’t have a ship exclusively filled with diseases so, should he happen across a previously unknown people, he could get them sick. That’s idiotic progressive revisionism. In 1492, no one knew how disease was transmitted, or if they were a carrier.
Progressives also depict the western hemisphere prior to 1492 as a Utopian paradise devoid of strife, war and problems. Indians were not a Utopic people; they had wars just like the rest of the world. What they didn’t have was any significant technological, industrial or weapons advances in centuries. Europeans were, by far, a better equipped and armed people. That’s hardly their fault. Were the tables reversed, the history would’ve been too.
So when I first heard about this new victim holiday in Seattle I thought it was about the dumbest thing I’ve heard this year…that didn’t come out of the White House. Then I thought about it for a minute.
I was born here, my parents were born here, and so were my grandparents. I’m indigenous, as far as I’m concerned. If I’m now free to choose my gender on a whim, why not my “native” roots? So let’s embrace this new insanity and claim it as our own. Tomorrow, on Columbus Day, Seattle will be celebrating me! And you! Everyone born here, we’re all indigenous. It’s your day, take it!
I have no idea when my ancestors came here, nor do I care. As far as I’ve been told, the started off somewhere in Poland and bred their way west. They’d marry, mate, and the kids would move at some point. Always west. So I’m some part of just about everything between here and there. And I couldn’t give less of a damn.
I don’t eat pierogi, don’t wear lederhosen, prefer women who shave their armpits and shower, and I don’t subscribe to any traditions or customs of my ancestors, or even know what most of them are. And I’m better for it.
If you use the term “my people” in any way other than as a joke or in referring to your family and friends, you’re probably a bigoted and/or racist progressive jackass who cares more about people who look like them than people who don’t. You’re sick, and you’re the real problem, not some holiday no one ever thinks about. Still, tomorrow is your day, too. Even if you weren’t born here, self-identify as an indigenous person Monday and have some fun. It’s time to stop progressives from raping history and aborting facts and take them back. Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day tomorrow, but make it about you – the American.
I think that we should give folks options about the Federal Holidays though - those who refuse to acknowledge/celebrate them can work those days instead of taking the holiday time.
It was Indigenous People that introduced Europeans—and the world—to scourge of tobacco. Thinks of the health, lives and fortunes that have been taken from innocent people by the scurrilous IPs!
We’ll celebrate at a redskin casino! Oh,wait!
They can call it what they want. It’s still a day off for me and I’m sleeping in.
I like the trophy idea...
I got my participation trophy for walking down the street waving a flag from a different country than this one, vigorously...
I don’t know which flag it was because my teacher hasn’t taught us those flags just yet...Maybe next year...
I want to wave the pretty red one with gold stars and other stuff on it...
Tommy wants the one that is black, with white squiggly lettering...
No one wants to wave the one that is Red, White and Blue with lots of white stars on it for some reason...I don’t even thing anyone had one of those to hand out...
Bump
“Councilman Bruce Harrell said, “We are celebrating the triumph of the indigenous people.”
What triumph? They lost everything they had.
“We are not reveling in the pain of our past, but indeed rejoicing in the triumph… In honoring Indigenous People’s Day we are honoring the best of our self, the best of the city.”
The city of Seattle was founded on land taken from “indigenous people” for the purpose of cutting down the forests, building sawmills and making money. Most towns in the state are named after local indian tribes that are nearly extinct. How is Seattle any less guilty (in their minds) than any other city.?
What did the indigenous people do, that we need to celebrate?
The Three Affiliated Tribes have broken ground for a $450 million oil refinery on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in northwestern North Dakota
“We grew up poor. We were lucky if we had a pair of clean overalls,” Tribal Chairman Tex Hall said. “But our parents made sure we went to school and got educated. They did the best they could for us. They didn’t know we’d have this oil and gas resource, but now we do. It’s our responsibility to manage it, and we are"
Of the 496 acres of land that the tribes own,,190 acres will be used for the project....and the rest for raising Buffalo.
I’d rather have Viking Day.
I would propose a new name:
Sue An Indian for your Lung Cancer Day.
Really, the only reason the left gets off on pushing this stuff is because many of those tribes practiced human sacrifice and lefties are still PO'd they were converted into Christians. The left relates to them so easily because they still continue the old practices.
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There are no “Indigenous Peoples” in the Americas. Just an argument over when each group arrived.
Since I have Viking blood that should make me second or third in line.
Thanks for reminding me.I’ll put up my Ferdinand and Isabella flag that CCsailed under.
Indigenous Peoples Day = Idiot Politicians Day
If Columbus and crew exposed indigenous Americans to new diseases, the reverse is also true. As in all of history and natural selection, the strong survived. Adapt or die.
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