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.
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Indigenous people from where? Guatemala and Honduras?
Why didn’t they name it: San Francisco’s Ignorant People Day!
I’ve never been to California...and the endless flow of mindless Bull$hit that comes from that place is all the more reason to never go there.
California is no longer the “trendsetter” state it once was, except maybe for other extreme, radical liberals, and illegal foreigners.
“Too Dull to Invent the Wheel Day”
SF’s Board of Supervisors should read up on the history of some of the indigenous people. Many of those indigenous people were not as honorable as white-washed history might indicate. Just the mention of certain tribes would send terror through early settlements.
And..?
2. It's extremely lame that "indigenous people" can't get their own day, but must piggy-back on another person's day and whose date of celebration is relevant to something.
“Stuck in the Stone Age Day”
“Too Dull to Invent the Wheel Day”
The dirty little secret about Columbus and the fate of the Indians is that the Indians were doomed as soon as a European set foot on the Americas and returned to Europe to tell the tale. The fact that this happened after the invention of the printing press just made the news travel even faster. And if Columbus had never been born, the Discovery would have been made within 8 years when Pedro Cabral, bound for India, discovered Brazil with pretty much the same crappy outcome for the Indians.
Are the “indigenous people”, celebrated by that holiday, the American born citizens who were here before the invasion of California by the Mexican illegal aliens?
If they’re serious about this, then they should return all Native American lands that now make up San Francisco.
I mean come on folks. Just hand San Francisco over to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and whoever can prove they were there before the White man showed up.
They couldn’t run it any worse.
If they’re serious about this, then they should return all Native American lands that now make up San Francisco.
I mean come on folks. Just hand San Francisco over to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and whoever can prove they were there before the White man showed up.
They couldn’t run it any worse.
What about inventing the wheel barrel? You don’t need draft animals for those?
Columbus Avenue will obviously have to be replaced with an unpaved path.
San Francisco keeps coming up with more reasons why I should not spend any of my tourist dollars in this craphole of a city.
Mr.President, please build a wall around SF while you’re at it. Thank you.
They get the whole month of November - National Native American Heritage Month.
What about inventing the wheel barrel? You don’t need draft animals for those?
I keep getting the words “Indigenous” and “Indigent” mixed up.
It’s pretty pathetic that they don’t see how ridiculous they sound.
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