Columbus Day holiday name change - do you agree with it?
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The Seattle City Council unanimously voted on Monday to redesignate the federal Columbus Day holiday as Indigenous Peoples' Day to reflect that Native Americans were living on the continent before Christopher Columbus' 15th Century arrival.
Mayor Ed Murray was expected to swiftly sign the measure, making Seattle the second major U.S. city after Minneapolis to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day on the second Monday in October, the same day as Columbus Day.
The change will take effect for the upcoming October 13 holiday, the city council said.
"Italians are intensely offended," Seattle native Lisa Marchese told the council. "For decades, Italian-Americans celebrated not the man, but the symbol of Columbus Day.
Several states, including Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon, do not recognize Columbus Day, which became a U.S. federal holiday in 1937. The California city of Berkeley stopped recognizing the day in 1992. Minneapolis voted in April to replace Columbus Day.
I'm happy about it. It is about time tbh. Hopefully more people will take the time to reflect on the struggles of the Indigenous and celebrate their culture and contributions.
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calebtaursus wrote:
Stupid liberals at it again…another white guy falls!
The greatest society the world has ever known was built by the white man. No amount of revisionist silliness can change that.
Who cares ? For one it was the 15th century, stop applying 21th century standards. Plus the world wasn't made by nice people. His contribution to the new world remains inifintely superior to anything the natives did or have done since.
Who cares ? For one it was the 15th century, stopd applying 21th century standards. Plus the world wasn't made by nice people. His contribution to the new world remains inifintely superior to anything the natives did or have done since.
Who cares ? For one it was the 15th century, stopd applying 21th century standards. Plus the world wasn't made by nice people. His contribution to the new world remains inifintely superior to anything the natives did or have done since.
Exactly
We like to say people were bad in history but we have to look at it from their moral lens not our 21st century lens. Columbus wasn't bad because at the time he was not perceived as doing something wrong but right. By today's standards of course.
Who cares ? For one it was the 15th century, stop applying 21th century standards. Plus the world wasn't made by nice people. His contribution to the new world remains inifintely superior to anything the natives did or have done since.
Columbus was gutter trash, end of story. Can you not read?
It is about time tbh. Hopefully more people will take the time to reflect on the struggles of the Indigenous and celebrate their culture and contributions. 
