Posted on 10/11/2010 7:37:34 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
For at least the past 30 years, the Left has slammed Christopher Columbus like clockwork on or around Columbus Day so much that it has already become a tiresome cliché. The DUmmies have followed this tradition this year as could be expected. Hey, DUmmies! There is absolutely nothing original about slamming Columbus around Columbus Day but that hasn't stopped the DUmmies as you can see in this THREAD, "Why do we still celebrate Columbus day?" YAWN! So let us now watch the DUmmies recycle the same old hackneyed slams against Columbus in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that his cousin attended Christopher Columbus High School until he was forced out due to its change to Fort Apache, is in the [brackets]:
Why do we still celebrate Columbus day?
[Stand by for yet more completely UNORIGINAL leftwing slams on Christopher Columbus.]
Columbus was not the first to discover America. Everything about this legend is wrong. You can't discover something that was already there and already occupied by people. The Vikings were apparently there first, maybe even some Chinese folks, but it's been proven long ago that Columbus was not the first. Yet tomorrow is a federal holiday, no mail delivery, and a day off for millions of Americans.
[And a day off for the DUmmies...but then every day is a day off for them.]
Hell, Chris was looking for a route to China for gold when he stopped off in the Bahamas, and he left disaster in his wake for the local inhabitants, and we know the rest of the awful truth, yet we still teach this bullshit fable to our kids.
[And this DUmmie gets an "F" for originality.]
Come on America, face it, we need to drop the fables and get real about history.
[Real history like how the Aztecs were cutting the living hearts out of their captives in Mexico? Oops! We need to overlook such inconvenient historical truths. But for those interested, here is an absolutely brilliant ARTICLE on this topic. The author must be a genius.]
I believe there were people here a long time ago. Before the Vikings, before even the Chinese.
[Latvians?]
Exactly, so the whole Columbus fairy tale is silly
[Yeah, an absolute myth. His ships never went farther than Barcelona.]
Ask the Navajos and Apaches who discovered America
[The Hopi Elders?]
Because the Italian-American community holds onto this tradition. I should say first that I don't know what it's like in places where there are no Italians, Italian-Americans, or where the old world traditions are dead:
[You must not have been to Wolf Point, Montana. I've been there and, believe me, no Italian for at least a hundred miles.]
As a people who also experienced prejudice, I can't for the life of me understand why Italians can't empathize with native americans, and shift to another day for their cultural celebrations. Its not like there aren't plenty of Italian TRUE heroes they could choose!
[How about Iron Eyes Cody? Ironically, despite playing many Indian roles in the movies and passing himself off as an authentic Indian, he was really a full-blooded Italian.]
In any case, I am very fortunate to live in a part of the country where we recognize tomorrow as Indigenous Peoples Day, and that is what my son will grow up with.
[So you live in Berkeley, CA?]
Some even have the theory that Columbus was not Italian
[Latvian?]
he was a plague bacillus that's only thing the pervert did- his crew were dripping with dis ease.
[This from a DUmmie with the drips.]
Columbus was an idiot who got lost
[If only he had taken a right at the Sargasso Sea, he would have found China.]
And his idiocy lives on today. Not just with Columbus Day, but the fact that the indigenous people of this continent are still called "Indians", because Chris the idiot didn't know where he was.
[I once wanted to be PC and called an Indian a "Native American. He got pissed and told me that Indians ALWAYS referred to each other as Indians.]
The term 'Indians' for native peoples is somewhat offensive at the least
[Except to the Indians themselves. What they really hate is the PC term, "Native Americans."]
It's best to ask them what they personally prefer. Most I know personally prefer Indian.
[BINGO! The truth is out. I learned this at Friendship, Indiana one summer. They had an Indian craft festival there and if you looked carefully most of the "Indian crafts" were made in China. Plus the "Indians" didn't look a bit Indian...except for one guy who really was Indian. He was making some leather crafts so I carefully commented to him in a PC way that it was great to finally see some authentic "Native American" crafts at the festival. He stopped what he was doing, gave me a dirty look, and said, "We NEVER use that term. We call ourselves INDIANS." Since that day, I have complied and call them what they want to be called...Indians.]
More importantly, why DON'T we celebrate Leif Eriksson Day?
[A DUmmie wants to turn over a new Leif.]
I believe his original Old Norse name was Leifur Eriksson, pronounced "LAY-voor"
[I got it! First monday of September we have a holiday honoring him. LAY-voor Day.]
Chris accidently found this continent while looking for China, so I'm not sure what we should call Oct. 11th.
[The Day Before Columbus Day?]
Many theorize that syphilis mutated from yaws, a disease prevalent in Europe.
[After hearing about Monica Lewinsky, I have theorized that it mutated from jaws.]
because the Italians have a stronger lobby than the Scandinavians! I guess cement shoes are scarier than Lutefisk.
[I dunno, I've heard some scary things about Lutefisk.]
The Italian lobby in the US has consistently opposed formal recognition of any pre-Columbian contact between Europe and America.
[Take that, Latvians!]
Incredible adventures. For their time, it really was akin to exploring a whole new world.
Incidentally, the dude on the right has an impeccable hat. =)
Just looked it up. You are so right:
Cody was born as Espera Oscar de Corti in Kaplan, Louisiana, a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily, Italy. They had a local grocery store in Gueydan, Louisiana, where he was raised.
In some of his earliest acting credits, Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. Cody was drawn to the Native American people finding comfort/similarities for himself in their struggle. He later changed his name to Tony Cody, and from then on lived his life as if he were of Indian descent, both on and off the screen.
Cody married Bertha “Birdie” Parker, a woman of Native American descent, but his “Indian” ancestry was a complete fraud.
Really, we are the Aniyunwiya, my tribe anyway.
Hey, buddy. Hi haint got no effing problem no how!
:)
Were they ( the leftists ) not the ones who started this sh!t in the first place?????????? Now they are beating us over the head with the crapola!!!!
What if ole Chris had met up with Iroquois instead of islanders????
Useful idiots and socialism....
Friendship, Native Americana?
“Many theorize that syphilis mutated from yaws, a disease prevalent in Europe.”
It’s not clear, but if the DU’er was suggesting that syphilis came to the Americas from Europe, he or she is 100% wrong. Syphilis went from New World to Old, though it may indeed have its origins in Yaws (which itself was a New World disease).
The Indians suffered plenty of epidemics diseases from European explorers and colonists, but ‘The Syph’ wasn’t one of ‘em.
Hahaha, I laughed myself breathless on that one. Good call.
Home of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association?
If the DUmmies are really serious about distancing themselves from Columbus and the EEEvil colonization that followed, they should, of course, hop on the next boat BACK to Europe and leave this land for the Indigeneous Peoples.
C.C. would have been DRT...lol
...or the National Bow and Arrow Association.
On a side note, I once read a history of New England that referred to wigwams as 'highly sophisticated brush structures'.
As a card-carrying descendant of Vikings, I understand that Vikings got here probably some centuries before Columbus. And then they went home.
They didn’t DO anything with that information.
I’m perfectly happy recognizing Columbus as the one that “discovered” America... and actually *reported* his discovery, and then changed the history of Western Civilization.
Our local public schools (Southern Ohio) don't celebrate Columbus Day anymore.
Its not politically Correct to dos now being he is a dead white guy who oppressed minorities.
I figure when Barney Frank passes on to the big pink bath house in the sky that we will nationally celebrate his birthday and school children will write essays on his inspiring alternative lifestyle.
Ah, I thought he was actually born in Sicily and immigrated to the US to be an Indian.... He was actually born in LA, interesting indeed.
Do you have a source for that? That would be very interesting if true. I just Googled, and this thread was the only result I got.
It was in more than one of my textbooks from University. Hang on a bit, and I’ll have a look...
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