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Governor Newsom proclaims Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024
Office of the Governor of California ^ | 10/14/2024 | Gavin Newsom

Posted on 10/14/2024 12:46:06 PM PDT by Redmen4ever

While the second Monday in October has historically been celebrated as Columbus Day and is still federally recognized as such, many have pushed for moving away from the holiday to acknowledge the atrocities Columbus committed against the Indigenous People of the hemisphere.

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KEYWORDS: indians; indigenous; nativeamericans
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Indigenous Peoples Day commemorates the ingenuity of the Indigenous People of this hemisphere for not discovering the Old World.

By reason of such ingenuity, the Indigenous People of this hemisphere did not discover iron-making or the wheel, did not domestic large animals such as the horse, and had no knowledge of plowing.

Indigenous Peoples Day is to dwell on atrocities committed by Europeans, and suppress any recollection of atrocities committed by Indigenous Peoples.

Indigenous Peoples Day is to remember that the Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians, and suppress any recollection that the Indians introduced Europeans to tobacco.

Indigenous Peoples Day is to remember that the Europeans introduced gonorrhea to the Indians, and to suppress any recollection that the Indians introduced the Europeans to syphilis.

Indigenous Peoples Day is to remember that the Europeans brought plague to the New World; and, to suppress any recollection that Europeans gained a kind of immunity to plague by suffering recurrent plagues brought to Europe from Asia. It is also a day to suppress any recollection that Europeans have problems traveling in Africa, not having the kind of immunity Africans have surviving there many thousands of years.

Indigenous Peoples Day is to ignore the actual history that various tribes fought on the English side and on the French side during the colonial period; that various tribes fought on our side and on the English side during the War of 1812, and that various tribes fought with and against our side during the Indians Wars; and to replace this actual history with a mythology that white people were always bad and red people were always good.

Finally, Indigenous Peoples Day is to ignore that Native Americans have, since the end of the Indian Wars, been among the most patriotic Americans and among our finest soldiers, because that doesn't fit the narrative that differences between the white and red people of this country are irreconcilable.

1 posted on 10/14/2024 12:46:06 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Yep Gavin feels the need to show that he’s politically correct.

It’s become an article of faith for liberals that we cannot celebrate Columbus Day.

Gavin feels the need to Virtue signal about this subject.


2 posted on 10/14/2024 12:47:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Redmen4ever
This meme and more from Not the Bee at https://notthebee.com/article/heres-a-roundup-of-all-the-best-memes-and-reactions-to-celebrate-columbus-day


3 posted on 10/14/2024 12:49:02 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Redmen4ever

Wait a minute. Columbus Day was abolished as a state holiday here in CA. Native Americans Day is its replacement and was on September 27. So we’re supposed to celebrate that AND indigenous peoples’ day? It’s so confusing


4 posted on 10/14/2024 12:57:35 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Redmen4ever
DNA Test Reveals Christopher Columbus Was a Spanish Jew

Newsom's an anti-Semite!

5 posted on 10/14/2024 12:59:16 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Redmen4ever

I don’t care if they want to have an ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’; they can have it anytime they want. The fact that they MUST have it on Columbus Day renders their motives transparent. They don’t care about the ‘indigenous people’ at all.

This stuff seems childish to me.


6 posted on 10/14/2024 1:00:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Redmen4ever

Is today they do the blanket collection?


7 posted on 10/14/2024 1:10:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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8 posted on 10/14/2024 1:11:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Yup... Just think of it... If it weren't for Columbus these people could still be tribal stone age hunter gathers, fighting tribe against tribe...

Then they wouldn't need to deal with phones, televisions, houses, heating, computers, cars, 4 wheelers, etc.... Life would be oh so wonderful... Like it is for these people.


9 posted on 10/14/2024 1:17:24 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Redmen4ever

Everyone is indigenous to somewhere. Might as well call it “People’s Day”.


10 posted on 10/14/2024 1:18:21 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Redmen4ever

These people really hate white folk. And no doubt most of the hate is jealousy.


11 posted on 10/14/2024 1:21:09 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Obviously.


12 posted on 10/14/2024 1:34:04 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s VERY immature of them.


13 posted on 10/14/2024 1:34:20 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Redmen4ever

We Californians can make some amends by immediately giving back the Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles areas and all coastal lands within 60 miles of the ocean. Any politician who says we can’t do this is Hitler.


14 posted on 10/14/2024 1:36:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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15 posted on 10/14/2024 1:45:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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ANTISEMITE!


16 posted on 10/14/2024 1:48:42 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I like that.

But someone would make it political anyway. (”My indigenousness is better than Yours, and morally superior!”)


17 posted on 10/14/2024 1:49:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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If it weren't for Columbus these people could still be tribal stone age hunter gathers, fighting tribe against tribe...

Well, people kind of like these people. No one complaining today would be alive in this alternate reality, because Columbus changed history that much.

18 posted on 10/14/2024 1:51:26 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Redmen4ever

Indigenous? According to the experts they came here by crossing the Bering Straits on foot from Asia.


19 posted on 10/14/2024 1:53:04 PM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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We’re all indigenous people from one place or another. If we’re basing the term on ancestry, I’m an indigenous European. Thanks for honoring me Gavin. I appreciate it.

That’s the problem with the neutral, politically correct language of the left. Eventually they’re unable to say what they mean. If they wanted to have a day honoring Native Americans, they could have called it Native American Day or Indigenous Americans Day, but then they’d be using the Euro-centric term America, and they can’t have that so they came up with a term so neutral term that it literally describes everybody.


20 posted on 10/14/2024 2:10:16 PM PDT by mbrfl
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