10-10-2018, 05:24 AM
Apparently in Cincinnati it's no longer Columbus Day, but "Indigenous Peoples' Day". Because can't you just imagine that smooth transition?
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/03/columbus-day-cincinnati-now-recognized-indigenous-peoples-day/1516261002/
As for me, I think we should have just gone for Vinland Day or Lief Erickson Day. Beat Columbus by 500 years, no genocide. That's a two-fer of improvement.
The people wanting to take down Columbus statues and such are pretty absurd, though.
It does crack me up when people want to pretend that the indigenous people were all peaceful folk or something. As if there wasn't war, taking land, slavery, scalping, and ritual mass sacrificing happening in the Americas way before Europeans ever showed up.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/03/columbus-day-cincinnati-now-recognized-indigenous-peoples-day/1516261002/
As for me, I think we should have just gone for Vinland Day or Lief Erickson Day. Beat Columbus by 500 years, no genocide. That's a two-fer of improvement.
The people wanting to take down Columbus statues and such are pretty absurd, though.
It does crack me up when people want to pretend that the indigenous people were all peaceful folk or something. As if there wasn't war, taking land, slavery, scalping, and ritual mass sacrificing happening in the Americas way before Europeans ever showed up.
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