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This is multiculturalist,PC Liberal bias. Here is why we should celebrate Columbus day: Columbus spent 15 years haunting the courts of Europe with his idea (imagination and persistence). When the Queen of Spain provided the means he got three small and leaky ships and a crew from the jails of Spain. He really did go where no man had gone before as he cajoled his tiny fleet across the Atlantic braving the unknown, mutiny, low rations, and death. The natives he met in the Americas were not the left's "noble savages" many were murderous and cannibalistic. His crew of adventurers were Spaniards. A Spaniard in Columbus' time came from a society of farmers, merchants, or WARRIERS. For a 1000 years Spaniard fought Berbers, Carthage, Rome and numerous other invaders, so the Warrier class was promenant. Killing was as much a part of that culture as slavery was part of world wide culture. Columbus was extraordinarily brave, bold, and imaginative. There are 60 or more varieties of food that the rest of the world had never seen prior to Columbus. Every time someone from Europe to Africa experiences a potato, corn, or turkey, for example - they can thank Columbus. Columbus did not do anything directly to the natives that the natives weren't already doing to themselves. The Incas would sacrifice 20,000 people in a single day by cutting our their hearts. The PC'ers want to destroy our heritage and replace it with their BS.

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Show him just how liberal we can be. Let him know he's almost as good as we."

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National Brotherhood Week
Tom Lehrer

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-Hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear;
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!