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Why L.A. is right to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
Los Angeles Times ^ | October 9, 2017 | Steven W. Hackel

Posted on 10/09/2017 6:11:26 AM PDT by artichokegrower

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To: artichokegrower
My Irish ancestors...and their descendants...are *damn* thankful to Columbus.Were it not for him we'd still be stuck in that cesspool called “Europe”.
21 posted on 10/09/2017 6:24:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


22 posted on 10/09/2017 6:24:55 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: allendale

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.


23 posted on 10/09/2017 6:25:13 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: artichokegrower

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.


24 posted on 10/09/2017 6:25:37 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: artichokegrower

California Democrats repealed the laws against Communists and seditionists teaching in schools.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.


25 posted on 10/09/2017 6:25:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: itsLUCKY2B

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.


26 posted on 10/09/2017 6:26:07 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: artichokegrower

You do realize of course indigenous people warred
Amongst themselves and more than a few kept captives as slaves???

Stupid is as stupid does.


27 posted on 10/09/2017 6:26:24 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: artichokegrower

[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?


28 posted on 10/09/2017 6:26:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: allendale

“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.


29 posted on 10/09/2017 6:29:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: artichokegrower
with them a murderous racism that worked to oppress indigenous people and render them all but invisible.

As opposed to the murderous tribes who worked to kill, rape and enslave other tribes or whites?

30 posted on 10/09/2017 6:29:37 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Verginius Rufus

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


31 posted on 10/09/2017 6:30:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


32 posted on 10/09/2017 6:31:27 AM PDT by rexiesmom (No end in sight)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


33 posted on 10/09/2017 6:36:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: kearnyirish2

Where did all of the blond hair and blue eyes originate in Mexico?


34 posted on 10/09/2017 6:37:22 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: itsLUCKY2B

Well played!

Taxman Bravo Zulu!


35 posted on 10/09/2017 6:38:04 AM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


36 posted on 10/09/2017 6:39:05 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: artichokegrower

Happy Columbus Day!


37 posted on 10/09/2017 6:39:45 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: ptsal

Same place as a 6’4” president named “Fox”...


38 posted on 10/09/2017 6:40:34 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


39 posted on 10/09/2017 6:40:53 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: artichokegrower

1492 when the Indians discovered Christopher Columbus.


40 posted on 10/09/2017 6:40:58 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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