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  • School District Cancels Veterans Day and Columbus Day

    01/30/2024 10:40:34 AM PST · by spirited irish · 26 replies
    Todd Starnes ^ | 1/29/24 | Todd Starnes
    The local ABC affiliate said Columbus Day has become a divisive issue given the role of Christopher Columbus in colonizing the New World.One middle school in the district actually held a workshop titled, “Columbus: Hero or Villain?”Local Republicans called the decision disappointing and shocking. Others called it an insult to those who served in the military.“One word: DISGUSTING to describe Stamford Connecticut,” one angry resident said. “The very backwards, ignorant and obvious communist school board has CANCELLED both Columbus day and Veterans day. The reason? They needed more school days for teaching. WHAT????”
  • Woke Connecticut School District Removes Veterans Day and Columbus Day from Holiday Calendar

    01/29/2024 6:33:41 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 35 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | January 29, 2024 | Jim Hoft
    In a controversial decision, the Stamford Board of Education has voted to remove Columbus Day and Veterans Day from the list of school holidays, requiring students to attend school on these dates. The decision, passed with a 5-3 vote, overruled previous years’ push-back from local veterans and Italian-Americans. The motion’s supporters, Joshua Esses, Michael Hyman, Gabriela Koc, Versha Munshi-South, and Antonia Better-Wirz, advocated for a shorter school year, arguing that a 181-day calendar extending into mid-June was too long.
  • Why Columbus Day Should Be Celebrated

    10/10/2023 2:06:01 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 47 replies
    Institute of Faith & Culture ^ | 10/04/2023 | Scott Powell
    The real Columbus, whom few today know much about, is an exemplary figure worthy of celebrating for many reasons. He was born in 1451 in the port city of Genoa, in what is now Italy, and was named Cristoforo Colombo. It has been said that he chose to call himself Christopher Columbus because he liked what this name meant. In Latin, Columbus means “dove” while Christopher means “Christ-bearer.” Some modern-day revisionist historians have taken cheap shots at Columbus, taking a chapter out of Lenin in charging him with being an imperialist. ...Seen from the big picture, Columbus Day is worth...
  • Indigenous Slavers: American Indians Who Whipped and Owned Blacks-You won't learn about Indigenous slaveholders from our textbooks.

    10/16/2023 7:47:06 AM PDT · by SJackson · 29 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 16, 2023 | Paul Kengor
    As leftists look to cancel Christopher Columbus and today’s annual holiday commemorating him — that is, the man who discovered this land that is the United States of America — they’re also looking to replace the great explorer with a day of their own. That new day for these cultural revolutionaries, celebrated all the way up to the level of their president, one Joseph Robinette Biden, is something called Indigenous Peoples’ Day.How ironic this is.Among the sins that leftists try to peg on Columbus is slavery. And yet, many of their indigenous peoples, including the so-called “civilized” among them, in...
  • Dealing With Columbus Day

    10/09/2023 5:52:08 PM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 38 replies
    Pastor Bill Randles Blog ^ | 10/12/2020 | Bill Randles
    Should we or shouldn’t we celebrate Columbus day? Every year the debate rages around this time whether the expansion of European civilization into the western hemisphere was a positive or negative development in human history.Of course Columbus himself was a complex figure, and there is much to love or hate about him depending on one’s point of view. The leftward side of the debate points out Columbus’s greed, ambition, pride and at times cruelty.And yet on the other side , one must admire the bravery, tenacity, and Columbus’ willingness to venture at great risk. Columbus also had a pious side...
  • The Italian lynchings of 1891 is what gave us "Columbus day".

    10/09/2023 11:40:50 AM PDT · by mikelets456 · 27 replies
    History ^ | 10/25/2017 | History
    In short, March 14, 1891 there were several Italians on trial. They were found "not guilty" which sent a mob of thousands in a frenzy (along with government). In the end, 11 Italians were lynched and numerous others treated harshly. As a consolation to this tragedy, our government gave them a day---Columbus day. A mob of tens of thousands of angry men surrounded a New Orleans jail, shouting angry slurs and calling for blood. By the time they were done, 11 men would be dead—shot and mutilated in an act of brutal mob violence that took place in front of...
  • NYC Council advances bid that could yank monuments honoring Washington, Jefferson, Columbus

    09/19/2023 5:14:23 AM PDT · by Bon of Babble · 26 replies
    New York Post ^ | 9/18/2023 | Carl Campanile
    The Democratic-led council’s Cultural Affairs Committee is set to hold a public hearing Tuesday on a proposal to yank artworks from city property dedicated to historical figures such as George Washington, Peter Stuyvesant and Christopher
  • The Life of Columbus

    05/27/2023 8:25:56 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 9 replies
    Librivox ^ | Sir Arthur Helps
    A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506.
  • While the Mexican President demands that Pope apologize for Columbus, Muslims celebrate (and are proud!) of the Conquests of Islam in places like Constantinople's Hagia Sophia or Jerusalem's Temple Mount

    04/28/2023 12:45:18 AM PDT · by Ezequiel Doiny · 10 replies
    Arutz 7 ^ | 4/28/2013 | Ezequiel Doiny
    Fox News reported "Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of Indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s." https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-president-pope-francis-catholic-church-conquest?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fworld%20%28Internal%20-%20World%20Latest%20-%20Text%29 Columbus conquered America in 1492 shortly after Muslims conquered Constantinople (in 1453). Muslims have the same claim to places like Constantinople's Hagia Sophia or Jerusalem's Temple Mount as Columbus had of the Mayan Pyramids. While the Mexican President demands that Christians apologize for Columbus, Muslims celebrate (and are proud!) of the Conquests of Islam. While there are protests condemning Columbus and his statues are being...
  • VIDEO: Newark Unveils Harriet Tubman Monument Replacing Christopher Columbus

    03/13/2023 12:32:40 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03-13-2023 | Amy Furr
    A monument to abolitionist Harriet Tubman was revealed Thursday in Newark, New Jersey, after a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus was removed. “The city, which is now 48% Black and 37% Latino, according to the U.S. Census, was a known stop along the Underground Railroad, which was a network of routes escaped slaves followed to find freedom in states that had abolished slavery,” NBC News reported Friday. The current monument stands in place of the Columbus statue removed during the George Floyd riots that erupted in 2020, per Reuters:
  • Vandals spray-paint ‘Murderer’ on Central Park Columbus statue

    02/27/2023 12:40:36 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02-27-2023 | Steve Janoski and Tina Moore
    Vandals doused the statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park with red paint and scrawled “Murderer” across its stone pedestal, police said Monday. Detectives have a video of two people — possibly a man and a woman — defacing the statue at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday with spray paint, an NYPD spokesperson said The pair wrote “land back” on three sides of the bronze-and-granite statue and “Murderer” on another, police said. There’ve been no arrests, but the NYPD is investigating the incident. If caught, the spray-paint artists will likely be charged with vandalism and making graffiti, the spokesperson said. Metal...
  • AOC protégé Brittany Ramos DeBarros’ faces backlash after supporting the removal of Columbus statue

    05/01/2022 2:50:05 PM PDT · by DFG · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/01/2022 | Carl Campanile
    An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez protégé running for Congress supports removing the Christopher Columbus statue from Columbus Circle — which may be a big problem for the district she wants to represent. Brittany Ramos DeBarros is seeking to rep New York’s 11th Congressional District, which encompasses all of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn — and is home to one of the largest Italian-American communities in the country. “It’s not in my district, so it wouldn’t be a top priority for me in Congress. but I support removing [the Columbus monument in Columbus Circle] and I think it would be ideal to...
  • Italian-Americans 'strongly condemn' Biden's 'cancellation of Columbus Day'

    10/14/2021 3:02:11 PM PDT · by Dr. Scarpetta · 17 replies
    www.Sharylattkisson.com ^ | 10/13/2021 | SHARYL ATTKISSON
    Italian Sons and Daughters of America & more than 50 other major Italian-American organizations have sent a scathing letter to President Biden for becoming the first U.S. President to "effectively 'cancel' Columbus Day." The groups say they "strongly condemn" Biden's "hurtful, disparaging and insensitive" proclamation declaring Columbus Day to be Indigenous People's Day which, they say, "acknowledges that you obviously do not wish to establish a meaningful relationship with the Italian American community." The letter says: *Biden doesn't understand the history of Italian-Americans. *The largest mass lynching in American history was of 11 Italian immigrants in 1891. *The widespread smearing...
  • Christopher Columbus Murals Covered with Native American Tapestries at Notre Dame

    11/12/2020 6:16:51 PM PST · by marshmallow · 36 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 11/12/20 | Ellie Gardey
    In addition to Columbus, Queen Isabella, venerated as a Servant of God in the Catholic Church, was covered up with a tapestry depicting a turtle and two ratsThe University of Notre Dame administration has now covered the school’s 12 murals depicting the life of Christopher Columbus, which generated protests and petitions from Native American groups on campus. The 12 tapestries showing Native American symbols and wildlife native to Indiana and are now placed directly over the Columbus murals. The Native American symbols belong to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, who invited the religious congregation that founded Notre Dame to today’s...
  • Philadelphia mayor 'disappointed' court ordered removal of box covering Christopher Columbus statue

    12/10/2022 11:52:31 PM PST · by blueplum · 23 replies
    NBC ^ | 10 Dec 2022 | TJ Swigart and Minyvonne Burke
    Philadelphia's mayor said he is "disappointed" that a court ordered the city to remove a plywood box covering a statue of Christopher Columbus. A spokesperson for Jim Kenney said the office believes the statue should be removed from Marconi Plaza.... ...Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt handed down her ruling on Friday, telling the city that if it disagrees with the statue's "message" it can add a plaque..."More to the point, the City accepted the donation of the Columbus statue in 1876. It has a fiduciary duty to preserve that statue, which it designated an historic object in 2017," the judge wrote.
  • A Native American Statue Will Replace [St.] Junipero Serra in Sacramento. Who Will it Honor?

    11/16/2022 7:11:04 PM PST · by marshmallow · 37 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 11/15/22 | Michael McGough
    State lawmakers and local tribal leaders shared details Monday on the plan to replace the toppled statue of missionary Junípero Serra in Sacramento with a monument dedicated to Native American tribes upon whose land California’s state Capitol grounds were built. The new monument will feature William Franklin, a Miwok leader whom Assemblyman James C. Ramos called a “fierce protector and preservationist” of cultural dances and other ceremonies, and who also helped build three Northern California roundhouses. “This monument that will be constructed and put forward here on the state Capitol will start to pave the way for the voices of...
  • Christopher Columbus ... crusader?

    10/12/2022 7:10:26 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 35 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 10-12-22 | The Stream
    While all this is true, Columbus stands for and is a reminder of something else that is now little known if not completely (and intentionally) forgotten: he was, first and foremost, a Crusader — an avowed enemy of the jihad. His expeditions were, first and foremost, about circumventing and ultimately retaliating against the Islamic sultanates surrounding and terrorizing Europe — not just “finding spices” as we were taught in high school. … Many Europeans were convinced that if only they could reach the peoples east of Islam — who if not Christian were at least “not as yet infected by...
  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Gov. JB Pritzker absent from Chicago Columbus Day parade amid controversy

    10/13/2022 5:10:47 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 7 replies
    ABC7 Chicago ^ | 10/10/2022 | Craig Wall
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- Parades are known for drawing crowds, and with them, politicians looking for exposure and potential votes. But in this election season, they were few and far between at Chicago's 70th annual Columbus Day parade. "You have parades that have become very controversial for a variety of political reasons and politicians don't want to alienate any part of a constituency, especially a large part of the constituency," said Laura Washington, ABC7 Political Analyst. Columbus Day is among them. The controversy is tied to protests about the treatment of indigenous people that led to Mayor Lightfoot to order Columbus...
  • Chicago task force recommends removal of monuments, including Christopher Columbus statues, and the addition of others. Now what?

    08/21/2022 6:30:05 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 29 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 08/19/2022 | Gregory Pratt and Alice Yin
    CHICAGO — Two years ago, as the city of Chicago reeled from a bloody battle between police officers and protesters over a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot launched an ambitious review of public monuments she said would be “a racial healing and historical reckoning project.” This week, the Chicago Monuments Project finally released its long-delayed report recommending a series of new public memorials across the city and the removal of several statues that the commission flagged for honoring white supremacy or disrespecting Indigenous peoples. Whether Lightfoot will follow the committee’s recommendations remains to be seen, however, as...
  • Donald Trump: ‘Bring Back Columbus Day!’

    10/11/2022 7:08:47 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 48 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10 Oct 2022 | WENDELL HUSEBØ
    “BRING BACK COLUMBUS DAY!” Trump stated on Truth Social.Columbus Day is a national holiday celebrated in the United States, along with other continental nations, to commemorate the day Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas on October 12, 1492. The voyage would be followed by three others in 1493, 1498, and 1502.Columbus’s first voyage was financed by Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. The investment was significant at the time due to Spain’s expensive war against the invading Moors (Muslims).Columbus’s original intent was to find a water route from Europe to Asia to increase trade....