[PJ-Comix]

It's true. Indians HATE being called "Native Americans." They prefer to be called Indians.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Huck]

Well I worked today and really don’t give a rat’s ass about Columbus, anymore than I care about Pizarro, or Magellan, or any of the rest. Wild adventures. Great accomplishments for their day. But I don’t really get the celebration thing, either. It doesn’t bother me. It’s barely a blip on my radar.

[mylife]

Are they whining about Columbus AGAIN?

[Mercat]

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[Darkwolf377]

So it never occurs to these folks that the reason Columbus is still considered one of the most important people, ever, is because his coming to America was the beginning of the European colonization of this country and all that followed?

They can hold on to their beloved hatred for all the evil that followed if they like (though of course, their BEING here is part of that same evil, but never mind), and still acknowledge that very real contribution to civilization. Yet they don’t.

[Celtic Cross]

Oh man! These DUmmies truly are dumb!

Of course we know that anyway, but every now and then it strikes me anew. Great DUFU thread, as usual.

[darkwing104]

The Italian lobby in the US has consistently opposed formal recognition of any pre-Columbian contact between Europe and America.

You got a problem with that?

[rockrr]

Fuggetaboutit!

[FlingWingFlyer]

It must be a miserable life when you not only hate yourself for being born white but you also live in a DUmpster.

[Army Air Corps]

The term 'Indians' for native peoples is somewhat offensive at the least

Never mind that "Indian" was derived from the phrase "Pueblo en Dios" ("en Dios" became contracted and altered to "Indios") and has nothing to do with India...

[JPG]

Where did the Indians come from? Just outside of Muncie or over the Bering Sea land bridge from Asia? Too much ‘we wuz here before you’, imo.

[Celtic Cross]

"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."

Guess what, DUmmie, its Columbus day whether you like it or not. That said, I wouldn't object to an 'american indian day', specially if it means another day off.

[luvie]

It's best to ask them what they personally prefer. Most I know personally prefer Indian.

[BINGO!...]

[Yardstick]

Ah, lefties and their mental tics. Like clockwork they get all snippy on Columbus Day.

[par4]

Because it's my wife's birthday.

And that's reason enough....

[Celtic Cross]

Incidentally, the dude on the right has an impeccable hat. =)

[MindBender26]

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.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Really, we are the Aniyunwiya, my tribe anyway.

[Charles Henrickson]

I learned this at Friendship, Indiana

Friendship, Native Americana?

[DemforBush]

“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.