Posted on 10/12/2014 4:42:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tomorrow used to be called Columbus Day, but no more. Thanks to Seattle, its now Indigenous Peoples Day! Sound stupid? Thats only because it is.
This week the city council of Seattle voted unanimously to rename the daywithin the city only; Columbus Day as we know it is a federal holidaybecause, like with everything these days, some whiny people found a way to be offended by something that doesnt really affect them at all and demand their grievance be addressed. Progressive governments such as Seattles eagerly cave if the crying crowd has a non-white face in front of it.
In Seattle that face belongs to Indians. For years, progressive Indian tribes, when not trying to convince people that the name Washington Redskins is offensive, have been campaigning with other progressives against Columbus Day. Progressives always have hated Christopher Columbus, viewing him as nothing more than a white, genocidal monster who enslaved natives and spread disease to wipe them out.
Its really almost as stupid as Indigenous Peoples Day sounds.
Like a lot of stupid ideas, this one came from the schools. In the days before the city acted, its school district did. The school board passed a resolution that included, but was not limited to, this nugget of dumb, WHEREAS, the School Board seeks to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and institutionalized racism, and to promote awareness, understanding, and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of our District (Read the whole thing, its all amazingly crazy.)
A parade of progressive grievance groups threw support behind it, and the city council passed the change 7-0.
Councilman Bruce Harrell said, We are celebrating the triumph of the indigenous people. We are not reveling in the pain of our past, but indeed rejoicing in the triumph In honoring Indigenous Peoples Day we are honoring the best of our self, the best of the city.
This politically correct garbage stems from progressives hatred of the fact that Europeans more than 500 years ago figured out the planet had another half. They seem to think no one would have ever made it around the globe had it not been for Christopher Columbus.
They cite the fact that Columbus, and those who followed, brought diseases with them. Many natives died because they had never been exposed to those diseases and, therefore, had no natural immunity to them. But they act as though Columbus sailed with the Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria, and the Petri Dish. Columbus didnt have a ship exclusively filled with diseases so, should he happen across a previously unknown people, he could get them sick. Thats idiotic progressive revisionism. In 1492, no one knew how disease was transmitted, or if they were a carrier.
Progressives also depict the western hemisphere prior to 1492 as a Utopian paradise devoid of strife, war and problems. Indians were not a Utopic people; they had wars just like the rest of the world. What they didnt have was any significant technological, industrial or weapons advances in centuries. Europeans were, by far, a better equipped and armed people. Thats hardly their fault. Were the tables reversed, the history wouldve been too.
So when I first heard about this new victim holiday in Seattle I thought it was about the dumbest thing Ive heard this year that didnt come out of the White House. Then I thought about it for a minute.
I was born here, my parents were born here, and so were my grandparents. Im indigenous, as far as Im concerned. If Im now free to choose my gender on a whim, why not my native roots? So lets embrace this new insanity and claim it as our own. Tomorrow, on Columbus Day, Seattle will be celebrating me! And you! Everyone born here, were all indigenous. Its your day, take it!
I have no idea when my ancestors came here, nor do I care. As far as Ive been told, the started off somewhere in Poland and bred their way west. Theyd marry, mate, and the kids would move at some point. Always west. So Im some part of just about everything between here and there. And I couldnt give less of a damn.
I dont eat pierogi, dont wear lederhosen, prefer women who shave their armpits and shower, and I dont subscribe to any traditions or customs of my ancestors, or even know what most of them are. And Im better for it.
If you use the term my people in any way other than as a joke or in referring to your family and friends, youre probably a bigoted and/or racist progressive jackass who cares more about people who look like them than people who dont. Youre sick, and youre the real problem, not some holiday no one ever thinks about. Still, tomorrow is your day, too. Even if you werent born here, self-identify as an indigenous person Monday and have some fun. Its time to stop progressives from raping history and aborting facts and take them back. Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day tomorrow, but make it about you the American.
Seattle, why not change the name of your
city. Chief Seattle would think you are CRAZY...
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