Old, old, very old news.
Only in the minds of the media who insist on inflaming tensions every year over this. Otherwise people could concentrate on addressing modern and real injustices and move on from the past.
I enjoy celebrating Insidious People’s Day.
I say we declare 10/11 to be the official, “I’m offended day.”
Claiming any offence on any other day will be punishable by having to wear a diaper in public.
Native people fought, killed and enslaved one another. There's also the question of whether they were "natives".
Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds
North and South America were first populated by three waves of migrants from Siberia rather than just a single migration, say researchers who have studied the whole genomes of Native Americans in South America and Canada.
Why don’t they just change the name to “Let’s Not Give White People Credit For Anything” Day.
Wrong. The left manufacturing division is what it’s all about.
They had to come from someplace.
When you lose, that’s what can happen! Shoulda prepared better! However, that would not have mattered anyway! Ya got yur casinos! Suck it up!
“...others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.”
Pedro Alveres Cabral, sailing for the real Indies got blown off course to the coast of Brazil. This was in 1500, only 8 years after Columbus. 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.
It’s sad, but there it is. But of course we shouldn’t let facts get in the way of ‘our truth’, should we?
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No so with some of the rest of the Spanish occupiers.
Not putting the man down, but it is the historical fact.
The Vikings were here way in advance of the rest and no doubt someone else before them.
Tensions exist between the AP and the majority of Americans....
If the American Indians want to grab off a day for celebration there are several great ones to choose from.
June 25, 1876. They won Their last major victory. No one can take it away from them.
Or
August 10, 1680. When the Pueblo Revolt began in which the Spanish were driven out of New Mexico to the Rio Grande.
But n-0-0-o! They think they have to grab off an Italian’s day of discovery that led to them being dragged, kicking and screaming from the Stone Age into the then modern world.
That it is slipping away here is a Bad Thing.
Author fails to mention that Columbus day came about after 11 Italians were lynched in News Orleans.
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
That it is slipping away here is a Bad Thing.
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
‘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.”’