Posted on 10/11/2009 7:22:47 PM PDT by onehitfrag
The tradition of honoring Christopher Columbus for sailing the ocean blue in 1492 is facing rougher seas than the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria.
Philadelphia's annual Columbus Day parade was canceled. Brown University this year renamed the holiday "Fall Weekend" following a campaign by a Native American student group opposed to celebrating an explorer who helped enslave some of the people he "discovered."
And while the Italian adventurer is generally thought to have arrived in the New World on Oct. 12, 517 years ago on Monday, his holiday is getting bounced all over the calendar. Tennessee routinely celebrates it the Friday after Thanksgiving to give people an extra-long weekend.
"You can celebrate the hell out of it if you get it the day after Thanksgiving — it gives you four days off," says former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter.
In California, Columbus Day is one of two unpaid holidays getting blown away by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of a budget-cut proposal. In Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid canceled this year's weeklong Columbus Day recess so the senators can buckle down on health care. (They
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Personally I’m surprised that we haven’t already traded in all those boring old holidays for something snappy that suitably honors Dear Leader.../s
Well he could have April one
I sort of like having a holiday to honor the man that introduced syphllis to the euroweenies.
Pittsburgh still had its traditional Columbus Day parade yesterday.
I mean, if we're going to lose Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays into an amorphous Presidents Day, Christmas because Winter Holiday, and now Columbus Day becomes Fall Weekend, then nobody deserves to be singled out anymore, right?
-PJ
Of course, Pulaski does have the drawback of being a white male, so part of the oppressor class.
Soon it will be called “Evil White Exploiter Day”. It may be replaced with a holiday to commemorate when Obama won his (first) Nobel prize.
Yep, Columbus Day has become a victim of political correctness.
Someplace was going to celebrate it as “indigenous people’s day”. I forget where this was happening, but the celebration was to focus on the native American culture before the Europeans came to America.
White guys aren’t allowed to have holidays named after them.
Slightly off-topic, but the oldest street in all the Philippines is “Colon” street in Cebu, named after Chritopher Columbus.
Was America’s beloved “Christopher Columbus”, actually Cristobal Colon?...
Just saying. :)
A-holes. Then why don’t they protest to remove Jackson from the $20 bill? He killed a lot more Native Americans than Chris Columbus. Or to remove ALL Spanish names from the Western Hemisphere? “San Francisco”, for one, brings back those ugly memories of Francisco Pizarro.[/s]
I guess that the West will go out with a whimper.
Hmm, I wonder if Christopher would qualify for free medical care and subsidized housing if he were here today.
Christopher Columbus? Wasn’t he the redneck Southern Baptist Ku-Klucker who invaded Latin America and oppressed the Hispanics? [/sarcasm]
Excuse me there Einstein,but to the best of my knowledge old C.C. never set foot on the North American continent.
Have a good COLUMBUS DAY, 2009!!!!!!
It depends where you live. The lib politicians would love to get rid of this holiday, but they don’t want to offend the Italian ethnic voters if they have many in their districts.
And I think some Hispanics also have a warm spot for Cristobal Colon.
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