[ProfessorLee]

Henceforth in Los Angeles, there will be no day devoted solely to the achievements of Columbus, who was both the discoverer of the New World and the catalyst for the destruction of Native American people and their cultures in the centuries that followed.

So we celebrate a stone age culture now? Do we all stop using electricity for a day in solidarity?

[artichokegrower]

The indigenous people of California were not at the top of the food chain. The California grizzly was. They had no written language, no agriculture, no horse, no wheel, no art, no architecture, no science, no medicine, no nothing. They lived for a thousand years in a mild climate, abundant local food and no need to advance. Why Los Angeles wishes to emulate these people is beyond me.

[Clutch Martin]

With all the argumentative back and forth, not to mention all the govt workers who receive a FREE day off with pay...(costing Millions) perhaps it is time to toss them all and stick to a National Memorial Day, a National Independence Day, and a National Veterans/Police/Fire Brigade day.

Change the appropriateness of those recognized days to one befitting the appropriateness of the occasion. Order a stand down of all media programming.

These are, after all, and should remain, days of remembrance.