Posted on 10/08/2018 9:29:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The largest city named for Christopher Columbus has called off its observance of the divisive holiday that honors the explorer, making a savvy move to tie the switch to a politically safe demographic: veterans. Ohio's capital city, population 860,000, will be open for business Monday after observing Columbus Day probably "for as long as it had been in existence," said Robin Davis, a spokeswoman for Democratic Mayor Andrew Ginther.
City offices will close instead on Veterans Day, which falls on Nov. 12 this year.
Native Americans and allied groups have long used Columbus Day to elevate issues of concern to them. That includes a peaceful protest of prayers, speeches and traditional singing in 2016 at Columbus City Hall — underneath the statue of the explorer that sits out front — to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and to urge Ohio to support more renewable energy.
The decision to stop observing the holiday was not triggered by the national movement to abolish Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day as a way of recognizing victims of colonialism, Davis said.
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If Columbus' name is now bad, what about the name America? Amerigo Vespucci was also a white European from Italy.
Don’t laugh. To the moonbats,
The American war for independence was led by slaveowning white males against the British who were already dismantling slavery in their own land. So no 4th of July.
Thanksgiving commemorates the arrival of white Christians on Indian territory in 1620, and genocidal war against native peoples commenced before the last turkey drumstick was eaten.
And Christmas!!? Offensive to secular people! Should be replaced by Winter Solstice day.
Yeah, there are lots of crazies who believe that &%#!
Is that ol’ John Kasich behind this?
Did he make his boss an offer he couldn’t refuse?
(sorry)
And if Columbus had never “sailed the ocean blue,” we would be celebrating Pedro Álvares Cabral day as he discovered Brazil on April 22, 1500.
I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. This is just so sad.
There will come a day when violence will force the capital city of Ohio to change its name
Ha! His boss is roughing it in Greece!
Just rename the town Indigenous People, Ohio.
And if Columbus had sailed a year later the poem would be “sailed the boundless sea.”
;^)
Wonder what they will do in Columbus, GA?
Outside of Atlanta, most of Georgia is very un-PC.
I'm sure Governor John Kasich will be along soon to take the first sledgehammer shot to some statues of Columbus pulled down by rioters .
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