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It’s not Columbus Day in SF anymore — Supes rename for indigenous people
sfgate ^ | January 23, 2018 | Rachel Swan

Posted on 01/23/2018 4:02:35 PM PST by KingofZion

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to remove Christopher Columbus’ name from his commemorative day in October, and instead honor the indigenous people living in California long before it was discovered by European explorers.

The 10-1 vote on the resolution sponsored by Supervisor Malia Cohen elicited cheers and jeers in the board chambers. It came after the board rejected Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s request that it be delayed.

Peskin, the lone dissenter, said he had been snowed with emails from Italian Americans in his district, which includes North Beach — home of Columbus Avenue. Many of them mark Columbus day as part of their own ancestral heritage.

Peskin proposed that the board “try to figure out a path forward” that works for both groups. His colleagues shot down the motion *** in a 7-4 vote, saying that Indigenous People’s Day was long overdue.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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To: House Atreides

Travois worked well enough, low tech, and easily repaired or refreshed. Varied terrian didn’t hamper the travois too much. Dogs could even pull them. Man or beast could be rigged. I often why the Mormons used clumsy carts when a travois would have met their meager requirements.


21 posted on 01/23/2018 5:11:55 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: House Atreides

Travois worked well enough, low tech, and easily repaired or refreshed. Varied terrian didn’t hamper the travois too much. Dogs could even pull them. Man or beast could be rigged. I often why the Mormons used clumsy carts when a travois would have met their meager requirements.


22 posted on 01/23/2018 5:21:59 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: KingofZion

Hillsborough County, Florida, Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance preventing the public works department from installing speed humps for traffic calming on local residential streets, which impatient drivers had turned into short cuts to avoid traffic lights and other impediments to their driving at high speed to their destination. It seems the county attorneys got the idea that speed humps could be considered nuisances and actionable offenses. And that the County could be liable for accidents and damage to vehicles resulting from their installation. Hillsborough County has tons of speed humps which were installed at county expense over the past 30 years and they continue to be effective traffic calming devices. Today however if a subdivision or community needs traffic calming, they would have to pay for the cost of the traffic study and the construction of the humps ($7,000 each) themselves, even though they are installed on county streets. So San Francisco isn’t the only place where laws have been turned upside down and where private property rights are seen as an evil by governing left-wing idiots who steal money from middle class taxpayers, yet return nothing of value to those same middle class communities.


23 posted on 01/23/2018 6:02:15 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: KingofZion

Next of the chopping block will be Thanksgiving.


24 posted on 01/23/2018 6:05:43 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: KingofZion

They should rename the city since it comes from European explorers. Or tear down the city completely. Why is the SF Board so hypocritical?


25 posted on 01/23/2018 6:38:01 PM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: KingofZion

Columbus appears to have done some horrible things.

But so did Indigenous Peoples.


26 posted on 01/23/2018 7:09:06 PM PST by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: KingofZion

Good let them all waller in filth and liberal progressive utopian dreams


27 posted on 01/23/2018 7:17:24 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Trillian

Clarence Thomas was right; there is nothing that binds us together as a country. The left has spent the last 50 years dismantling the WASP culture of the Founding Fathers; as a Catholic I understood the value of that culture in this country.

Elites don’t know how to deal with a population that has lost faith in just about every institution; they know it resulted in Trump’s election, and are determined to prevent a repeat of that. In the meantime, I don’t consider most the people I deal with every day as my “countrymen”; we’ve been divided along enough fault lines (race, gender, faith, language, cats or dogs) that any attempt at finding common ground is futile - exactly as intended. This gives inordinate power to smaller tight groups.


28 posted on 01/23/2018 7:33:31 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: hanamizu

Wheels make it easier to move things even if a man is pulling it. Even after horses were available and Indians saw whites using the wheel, they still used supported drags instead.


29 posted on 01/23/2018 8:24:09 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

they still used supported drags instead.


Wheels aren’t the easiest thing for Stone-Age people to construct. And the Indians didn’t have one of the greatest underrated inventions of all time—the horse collar. Until the evil Europeans invented the horse collar, horses could only pull relatively light loads. The horse collar allowed the horse to pull with all of its strength without choking itself.

Oxen were strong but slow. Horses could plow 2 to 3 times as much as an ox—after the horse collar was invented. Don’t thing the Indians picked up on the concept until they were permanently on the reservations.


30 posted on 01/23/2018 9:01:57 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: KingofZion

What do you do on White People Suck Day if you don’t have much melanin? Self flagellation? Jumping off freeway bridges?


31 posted on 01/23/2018 9:04:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: KingofZion

More like San Fran-feces. The $h!th01€ that it is...


32 posted on 01/23/2018 11:53:39 PM PST by Skybird
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To: Yaelle

What do you do on White People Suck Day if you don’t have much melanin?

Trend setters join the Human Extinction Movement ...


33 posted on 01/24/2018 2:57:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: KingofZion

Does that man the indigenous people were the cause of their own downfall?


34 posted on 01/24/2018 3:12:34 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: KingofZion

So what? Those dufus don’t have the authority to change a National holiday.
They should be ridiculed and ignored


35 posted on 01/24/2018 8:26:58 AM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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