Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar? (Now "Fall Weekend")

Fox News ^ | 10-11-09

[rockrr]

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

[al baby]

Well he could have April one

[AUH2O Repub]

I sort of like having a holiday to honor the man that introduced syphllis to the euroweenies.

[I_Like_Spam]

Pittsburgh still had its traditional Columbus Day parade yesterday.

[BallyBill]

Truthfully, I thought we stopped celebrating it as a holiday many years ago. I’m surprised my daughter has off school.

[Political Junkie Too]

Can we also change Black History Month to Minority Recognition Month? Can we take Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday (Jan 15) and Cesar Chavez' birthday (March 31) as bookends to Minority Recognition Month?

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

[Verginius Rufus]

They could change Columbus Day to Pulaski Day. (Today is the 130th anniversary of the death of Casimir Pulaski.) Pulaski didn't kill or enslave any Indians as far as I know, and he made a lot bigger contribution to the War of American Independence than a man who had been dead more than 250 years when the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Of course, Pulaski does have the drawback of being a white male, so part of the oppressor class.

[rbg81]

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.

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[Tanniker Smith]

White guys aren’t allowed to have holidays named after them.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

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. :)

[rfp1234]

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]

[Altura Ct.]

I guess that the West will go out with a whimper.

[meadsjn]

Christopher Columbus, an Italian, financed by the Queen of Spain, discovered an island in the Carribean, and here in the US we get a day off. What a country! What a guy!

Hmm, I wonder if Christopher would qualify for free medical care and subsidized housing if he were here today.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Christopher Columbus? Wasn’t he the redneck Southern Baptist Ku-Klucker who invaded Latin America and oppressed the Hispanics? [/sarcasm]

[eyedigress]

All of our holidays exemplified American Exceptionalism through our perseverance to freedom and Trust in God to get us there. The left has neither.

[Don Corleone]

following a campaign by a Native American student group opposed to celebrating an explorer who helped enslave some of the people he "discovered."

Excuse me there Einstein,but to the best of my knowledge old C.C. never set foot on the North American continent.

[onedoug]

Have a good COLUMBUS DAY, 2009!!!!!!

[Cicero]

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.