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Originally Posted by Kahuna32162
We only "celebrate" it on a Monday so some Federal workers can get the day off.
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It's also a big car sales day, and a big general retail sales day. So it's a day off for federal workers, and a mandatory day at work with no holiday pay for retail workers.
That seems fitting, given the person being celebrated.
Yeah I'm one of those people who never understood why the USA would celebrate a guy who a) never actually set foot or landed in North America, b) bought slaves to do the work of getting to and from the Caribbean and Haiti (where he actually ended up), caused the extinction of the Taino people, bragged that he could easily kill another tribe and enslave survivors to bring back and force religion on them and put them to work for the Crown.
We learned that Columbus discovered America back in 1st grade. That was in the 1960's. Actual facts have been discovered since then, including his own diaries and ship logs, copious notes he took, along with official documents from Spain, that proves otherwise.
There was nothing about Columbus that anyone should be proud of.