While I certainly don’t like the politically-correct, Liberal motives behind the assault on Columbus Day, I don’t view it as a sacrosanct holiday. It was popularized in the first half of the 19th Century. It has nothing to do with America per se. Columbus was no saint — he undertook a bold voyage that opened American to further European exploration but there is plenty of evidence that he was looking to get rich and was a dictatorial jerk to the people he ruled over when he was governor general. So if it goes away, it won’t bother me that much.
Your “research” has been found wanting. Keep looking and you will find a man of robust courage. So easily we step over our monuments of flesh and blood... Your comment astounds me.
I see Columbus Day as a celebration of all men who had BALLS.
And it took great big balls to get into those tiny ships and head out into the open ocean. Where life was precarious to say the least, and there was zero help if you got into trouble...you were on your own.