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Tensions persist between legacy of Columbus, native people
The Associated Press ^ | October 10, 2021 | By KATHLEEN FOODY and WILSON RING

Posted on 10/10/2021 10:08:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.

Spurred by national calls for racial equity, communities across the U.S. took a deeper look at Columbus’ legacy in recent years — pairing or replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day.

On Friday, President Joe Biden issued the first presidential proclamation of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Columbus.

But activists, including members of Native American tribes, said ending the formal holiday in Columbus’ name has been stymied by politicians and organizations focusing on Italian American heritage.

“The opposition has tried to paint Columbus as a benevolent man, similar to how white supremacists have painted Robert E. Lee,” Les Begay, Diné Nation member and co-founder of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Coalition of Illinois, said, referring to the Civil War general who led the Confederate Army.

Columbus’ arrival began centuries of exploration and colonization by European nations, bringing violence, disease and other suffering to native people already living in the Western Hemisphere.

“Not honoring Indigenous peoples on this day just continues to erase our history, our contributions and the fact that we were the first inhabitants of this country,” Begay said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; brownsupremacy; cancelculture; christophercolumbua; columbus; godsgravesglyphs; obamasfault; spain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not in the Bahamas where they have a statue, monument and park with a spectacular sea view of where Columbus anchored.

https://bahamasgeotourism.com/entries/columbus-monument/098618d9-1962-4cd1-9b6b-73750f8d3836


21 posted on 10/10/2021 10:51:49 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Leave. Us. Alone. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bringing Western Civilization to the "New" World was, overall, a Good ThingTM.

That it is slipping away here is a Bad Thing.

22 posted on 10/10/2021 10:52:53 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: hanamizu
And as soon as the ‘native people’ were exposed to European technology and European diseases, they were doomed as a culture and as a people.

The Natives did not innovate as a civilization. So they became stagnant. Was it fair? No. But because they had no immunity to European diseases, their days were numbered.

23 posted on 10/10/2021 10:52:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Don Corleone

500+ years old news.


24 posted on 10/10/2021 10:57:01 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh those poor native people they don’t want fresh clean water that they don’t have to carry from the river full of crocodiles They don’t want cars and computers They don’t want supermarkets full of food or modern houses They want their mud huts and spears back


25 posted on 10/10/2021 11:03:00 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘After taking power, the socialist tyrants typically are not satisfied with the mere surface destruction of traditional culture and belief, but also seek to destroy the past through criticizing and altering history.

With these values and traditions destroyed, the ruling regime is able to embed its power into every pore of society. Legutko wrote that the socialist leaders believed “the political system should permeate every section of public and private life,” to include “ethics and mores, family, churches, schools, universities, community organizations, culture, and even human sentiment and aspirations.”’


26 posted on 10/10/2021 11:12:17 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Don Corleone

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27 posted on 10/10/2021 11:18:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Columbus was the best thing that ever happened to those cannibal savages.


28 posted on 10/10/2021 11:27:58 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So if Foody and Ring are worried about it, what are they doing here?

Time to donate their homes and dirt to the local injun tribe and head home to Europe.


29 posted on 10/10/2021 12:04:13 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, "indigenous people" are completely justified in feeling this way.

Of course, everyone knows Columbus gave them blankets laced with smallpox to eradicate them.

We know this because Columbus knew the transmission vectors of Smallpox in 1492.

/s

30 posted on 10/10/2021 12:05:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“dragged, kicking and screaming from the Stone Age into the then modern world.”

I always get a kick out of watching native american activists show up at some event in tricked out Chevy Silverados, completely oblivious to the irony.


31 posted on 10/10/2021 12:41:19 PM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“If an advanced civilization of American Indians had discovered a stone age Europe they would have done the same.”

Exactly. The Indians were conquered by the Europeans, just like cultures have been conquered since the dawn of mankind. The only difference is that Europeans had the means and the inclination to make decent records of it.


32 posted on 10/10/2021 12:48:03 PM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And I deeply resent their casinos which destroy lives by enabling compulsive behavior, etc.

It's always something.

33 posted on 10/10/2021 1:01:45 PM PDT by LouAvul (Farewell America. We barely knew you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me just say, I never knew Columbus Day as a celebration of Italians, or for Italian-Americans. Never. Until the PC crap really started bringing to bear in the last decade.

It may not mean much coming from me, but I’m middle-aged, always lived in a heavily populated area, live near and have attended eateries in “Little Italy” which still very much exists in Baltimore, and my mother’s best friend is an Italian-American.

But sure,if it offends Italians, let them eat up the wokesters.


34 posted on 10/10/2021 1:04:11 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: blueunicorn6

ROFL


35 posted on 10/10/2021 1:05:42 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Phoenician, Carthaginian, Iberian, Greek, and even Roman navigators were crossing the Atlantic, trading and even settling in the Americas for two millennia. The Dark Ages caused a break in that concourse, until Norse navigators took it up again.


36 posted on 10/10/2021 1:23:41 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny he claimed land here for spain. Don’t hear much about them stealing the culture of caribs, inca, mayan, aztec indians and making them hispanic. the conquistadors.


37 posted on 10/10/2021 1:55:44 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I challenge today’s welfare dependent “native” people to try to live like native peoples lived at the time of Columbus.


38 posted on 10/10/2021 2:14:55 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: beef

I remember the problems in New Mexico with the AIM Indians back in 1975-1976. All the tribes sent members together to b**ch and Moan on how the White Man had treated them.

With so many tribes gathered together guess which language they talked in to understand each other. The language of the conquerors.

Many of the tribes never had a war with the US, but there they were moaning along with the rest.


39 posted on 10/10/2021 3:34:20 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? )
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40 posted on 10/11/2021 7:35:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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