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DC cancels Columbus
https://www.realcleareducation.com/artic...10367.html

"Having apparently solved all the urgent problems besetting D.C. – crime, poverty, traffic, homelessness, public schools that don’t educate, etc. – the D.C. Council - whose city is actually named for Columbus! got down to the important business of misrepresenting history and insulting millions of Americans. They did this in one fell swoop by renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day...."
10-14-2019 08:28 AM
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Notice these places never cancel the actual holiday. They still get their day off.
10-14-2019 08:48 AM
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https://nypost.com/2019/10/13/stop-scape...-columbus/
An Italians point of view.

"...The second reason is that on March 14, 1891, Italian Americans hit a low point in the long, arduous hazing period that every immigrant group seems condemned to suffer before emerging into the status of respectable American-hood. That year, an angry New Orleans mob lynched 11 Italian immigrants after they were cleared of murder charges. Perhaps the largest lynching in US history, it was condoned by the New York Times and a future president, Teddy Roosevelt.

Italian Americans desperately needed a hero to stand for them, someone to symbolize their contributions to their adopted land. The following year, Italian Americans in New York City erected a statue to Columbus at what became ­Columbus Circle and inscribed it, “To the world, he gave a world...."
10-14-2019 09:16 AM
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Democrats hate America
10-14-2019 11:54 AM
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I have a LOT of indigenous blood...do I get a prize today? Everyone seems to be getting one. Maybe a Peace Prize, I'll take that...and the money.

I advocate for peace between Republicans and Democrats. Now, when do I get my prize.
10-14-2019 02:02 PM
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