Posted on 10/09/2017 6:11:26 AM PDT by artichokegrower
After much debate, both the Los Angeles City Council and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently voted to replace the Columbus Day holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day, beginning no later than 2019. Although to many this change will seem long overdue, others wonder why our elected officials have ventured into this political thicket.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
We Aquired Calif as a result of a Treaty after a war with Mexico...I hate to tell these nimrods the Mexicans were not indigenous peoples either and the Spanish before them had turned many “indigenous” into vassals to work the fields.
I was born and raised in California at a time where they actually taught the history of the state.
BTW if those nasty Anglos had not come in roughshod the way this article says...The state would resemble Tiajuana.
Makes you wonder why Europeans built permanent houses out of wood, had developed metals, firearms, horses, etc while the “noble indigenous” tribes were living in teepees.
Columbus Day is a federal holiday.
“Indigenous Peoples Day” is some laughable meme non-holiday that only exists in the minds of some Democratic city councilmen in the bluest areas of the United States.
California Democrats repealed the laws against Communists and seditionists teaching in schools. I am not surprised by the results.
F()ck brown nationalists. Mexico is not without sin.
Very well written. The key point is that the Left is using this revisionist history about Columbus to delegitimize the country itself. The assault on “whiteness” is an attempt to disassemble the American nation.
You do realize of course indigenous people warred
Amongst themselves and more than a few kept captives as slaves???
Stupid is as stupid does.
[Hate the evil Anglo Americans.]
That’s absolutely correct. Been saying that awhile and just last night. At the heart of the matter, this basically sums the whole thing up.
People indigenous to America, eh?
“Just try to imagine what would have become of those “indigenous peoples” if Europeans had never arrived.”
I guess all those romantic images of “indigenous peoples” riding horses wouldn’t exist since there weren’t any horses in the 1500’s until the Spanish brought horses to America in 1500’s.
Horses did exist in America until about 10,000 years ago. I guess those “indigenous peoples” weren’t very good at keeping horses around.
As opposed to the murderous tribes who worked to kill, rape and enslave other tribes or whites?
We could always go back to the days when 100 square miles would sustain five people, and they would have a life expectancy of 25.../s
If I were an ‘indigenous person’ I wouldn’t want a second hand holiday previously named for someone I loathe. I would want to pick my own date and I would want to be called by my own name, not indigenous person.
Yes, by all. Let’s honor the accomplishments of the indigenous peoples:
1. The wheel. Um, no. 10,000 years wasn’t enough time.
2. Ok, help me out here.
Where did all of the blond hair and blue eyes originate in Mexico?
Well played!
Taxman Bravo Zulu!
The LA Times is full of it.
Genetic markers taken from blood samples of members of various tribes show that the ancestors of most so-called “indigenous” people came from what used to be called Soviet Central Asia or the coast of China.
Their ancestors crossed over the land bridge, now known as Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, eons ago.
Their ancestors are first peoples, not “indigenous” people.
Happy Columbus Day!
Same place as a 6’4” president named “Fox”...
Hispanics are doing their revisionist history. Their ancestors were the Spaniards, the original white European plunderers of the New World. Their forefathers hired Columbus. He was their employee doing their bidding, but to the left he was just a white European plunderer doing his destruction to the native peoples all by himself. The Spaniards always get a pass from leftist historians, and the Hispanics in this country always turn a blind eye to the role their Spanish ancestors had in the destruction of the native peoples of North and South America! What do I know? I’m just a stupid Trump supporter.
1492 when the Indians discovered Christopher Columbus.
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