COLUMBUS DAY

It's Columbus Day and not Indigenous Peoples' Day, damn it!!

 

By Howie Katz

 

 

 

Yesterday was Columbus Day.

Columbus Day commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492.  Columbus Day became an official US holiday in 1937.

Christopher Columbus well deserves to have an official US holiday.  His journey was quite a feat.  It took a great amount of courage to sail the uncharted waters..  At the time, it was commonly believed the earth was flat and that anyone who dared to go past the horizon would fall off into oblivion.

Everything went well with Columbus Day until the death of George Floyd when BLM and other radical-left protesters demanded that Columbus Day be abolished because he and his crew allegedly mistreated the inhabitants of Hispaniola.

Columbus stands accused of murder, genocide, of enslaving the Hispaniola natives, and of being a colonizer.  All of that is utter nonsense. That is Marxist history, not true history. 

At the same time statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate heroes were defaced and toppled, statues of Columbus received the same mistreatment. 

 

  

Vandals cheer after they toppled the Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul 

In Providence, Rhode Island, Columbus was splattered in red paint with a “Stop Celebrating Genocide" sign tied around the pedestal and the word “genocide” also spray-painted on the base   

     

In Baltimore, a nob toppled the statue of Columbus and tossed it into the harbor

 

What a shame that the far-left vandals do not appreciate Columbus' place in history.  Looking at pictures of the protesters, they are mostly white and college students or graduates who have been radicalized by Marxist professors.

The radicals have succeeded in abolishing Columbus Day and having it replaced by Indigenous Peoples' Day in the states of Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. Hundreds of communities across the land have also cancelled Columbus and recognize only Indigenous Peoples' day.

I however will continue to celebrate Columbus, a great explorer whose courage led him to sail beyond the end of the flat earth to discover the New World.

As for Indigenous Peoples' Day, for me there is no such day and there will never be such day.  And fuck all the people who wanted to abolish Columbus Day ... That's right, Fuck 'em!