Lawmaker takes first step to remove Columbus Day in NYC

nypost.com ^ | 10/9/17 | By Shari Logan and Natalie Musumeci

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Lawmaker takes first step to remove Columbus Day in NYC

A radical Brooklyn lawmaker on Monday introduced a new state bill to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, as he slammed the famed explorer as a “murderer.”

“This land that all of us inhabit is stolen land – stolen from the indigenous people who were slaughtered and forced onto reservations,” Assemblyman Charles Barron told The Post , adding “they should be recognized in replace of Columbus Day.”

Barron described Columbus as a “colonizer” who “enslaved Africans and slaughtered indigenous people.”

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For those not familiar with Charles Barron, we’ve come to expect things like this from him.

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Funny...and sad at the same time