[manaboutown]

Columbus Day is celebrated all over the Americas as well as in Italy and Spain. Columbus Day - Wikipedia

[billethkid]

Maybe why it is a day/person of recognition that some special interest group has not objected to it (YET!).

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Maybe why it is a day/person of recognition that some special interest group has not objected to it (YET!).

I wish you were correct, but it has already been renamed "indigenous persons day" in Amherst, MA. What will they think of next???

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

I wish you were correct, but it has already been renamed "indigenous persons day" in Amherst, MA. What will they think of next???

Another example of the silent majority remaining silent, a very definite adversary's/protester/complainer's advantage that remains a constant given!!!

[Velvet]

Happy Columbus Day! He did discover the land mass existed from the Europeans’ point of view. Of course the indigenous people discovered it a long time before. If we knew the date we’d celebrate that too.

[karostay]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Maybe why it is a day/person of recognition that some special interest group has not objected to it (YET!).

Bet the Native Americans wished they had Sea Wall

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Maybe why it is a day/person of recognition that some special interest group has not objected to it (YET!).

Read it and weep..

Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Depends Where You Are

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Another example of the silent majority remaining silent, a very definite adversary's/protester/complainer's advantage that remains a constant given!!!

You got that right, happy Columbus Day my friend : )

[Pinball wizard]

You missed it. It was Oct. 12.

[Kahuna32162]

We only "celebrate" it on a Monday so some Federal workers can get the day off.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162

We only "celebrate" it on a Monday so some Federal workers can get the day off.

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.

[Chi-Town]

The Vikings had a settlement in Newfoundland 500 years before Columbus. They found it to be a hostile environment and headed out for better pillaging. Columbus didn't discover America anyhow as there was already a population living here. But he dId make Europe aware of its existence.



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[Aloha1]

in·dig·e·nous
adjective
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
"the indigenous peoples of Siberia"

By definition, there were never any "indigenous people" in America since humans did not evolve here. All humans originated in Africa so let's just say "first invaders".

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Aloha1

in·dig·e·nous
adjective
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
"the indigenous peoples of Siberia"

By definition, there were never any "indigenous people" in America since humans did not evolve here. All humans originated in Africa so let's just say "first invaders".

That's all well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that Columbus never came to North America. He never invaded this continent, he never did anything that had anything to do with this continent.

He did show up in South America but most of his travel revolved around the Caribbean and the West Indies, particularly Haiti.

[Velvet]

So Columbus is really just a symbol.