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No Columbus Day in Columbus, Ohio: What the city is doing instead
CBS "News" ^ | October 8, 2018

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.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: america; andrewginther; bluezones; christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; dakotaaccesspipeline; history; ohio; robindavis
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

21 posted on 10/08/2018 10:28:45 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
For Hispanics, it's Dia de la Raza--day of the race. A large proportion of Latin Americans are of mixed European and indigenous ancestry--so they would not be alive if Europeans had not come to the New World.

If Columbus' name is now bad, what about the name America? Amerigo Vespucci was also a white European from Italy.

22 posted on 10/08/2018 10:29:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Reno89519

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 &%#!


23 posted on 10/08/2018 10:33:38 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Kickass Conservative

Is that ol’ John Kasich behind this?


24 posted on 10/08/2018 10:35:16 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: leaning conservative

Did he make his boss an offer he couldn’t refuse?

(sorry)


25 posted on 10/08/2018 10:35:59 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


26 posted on 10/08/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. This is just so sad.


27 posted on 10/08/2018 10:47:24 AM PDT by RightField
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There will come a day when violence will force the capital city of Ohio to change its name


28 posted on 10/08/2018 10:47:28 AM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: elcid1970

Ha! His boss is roughing it in Greece!


29 posted on 10/08/2018 10:48:12 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just rename the town Indigenous People, Ohio.


30 posted on 10/08/2018 10:56:39 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And if Columbus had sailed a year later the poem would be “sailed the boundless sea.”

;^)


31 posted on 10/08/2018 10:56:47 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970

Wonder what they will do in Columbus, GA?


32 posted on 10/08/2018 1:00:23 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

Outside of Atlanta, most of Georgia is very un-PC.


33 posted on 10/08/2018 1:02:55 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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 .

34 posted on 10/08/2018 11:18:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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