Lawmaker takes first step to remove Columbus Day in NYC

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

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

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.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

He's wearing a Mao suit just like Hitlery. He is fashion appropriating.

[Leep]

I would celenrate Indigenous Savage Day.
Or, their demise, anyhow.

[Leep]

I would celebrate it,too.

[I want the USA back]

Hey $hitface barron: go FU.

[Leaning Right]

> 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.” <

Wait a minute. Indigenous people were slaughtering other indigenous people long before Columbus showed up. The Aztecs are the prime example of this.

So how are we to handle that?

I suggest that ‘Columbus Day’ be renamed ‘Indigenous People (Except For Those Indigenous People Who Hurt Other Indigenous People) Day’.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Fifty years ago it was called a Nehru jacket. Finally it was revealed it was a MAO jacket.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Andrew Wilkow is shredding the Left on this now.

[Trump20162020]

You notice it’s only Democrats on these city councils in the bluest areas of the country trying this.

They’re so out of touch. I bet 80%+ of Americans support Columbus Day, not their meme non-holiday they all keep pushing (no original ideas; they all push the same Indigenous People’s Day crapola.)

[ealgeone]

“This land that all of us inhabit is stolen land...

Wonder if he's willing to "give back" his part of the "stolen land?"

[Jan_Sobieski]

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

And all the Muslims say, "Aloha Snackbar!"

[shelterguy]

“”””””””You notice it’s only Democrats on these city councils in the bluest areas of the country trying this.””””””””””””

I remember Red Wing Minnesota did this some years ago. Must be an enclave of old hippies down there.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Exactly right.
Those Africans were captured and sold into slavery by muslims.
Some of those slavers were ancestors of the Kenyanesian Usurper.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Hope someone is keeping notes so when the time comes MLK day can be ended.

[windsorknot]

And we all know that the “indigenous people” were as “pure as the wind-driven snow”.

[reg45]

Columbus Day: Eliminate it entirely. Start with no day off with pay for government workers.

[rlmorel]

Except the Carib indians. They were just Hungry all the time.

[Kickass Conservative]

The easy way to manipulate History is to only look back as far as necessary to bolster your case.

African Tribes (Wholesalers) sold their Slaves to English and Portuguese Slave Traders (Middlemen). They then sold those same Slaves on the Retail Market.

[tillacum]

These democrats don’t want to be reminded that Columbus was just like them. He used borrowed money from the queen, set off in a wave of glory to the West Indies, got lost, landed on our shores, not knowing where he was. This is part of the democrat MO.

[taterjay]

Britain needs to declare ‘Indigenous People Day’ before it is too late.