Seattle school board votes to replace Columbus Day with "Indigenous Peoples Day." Their stated reason is to promote understanding and tolerance for the "indigenous" people of the nation, as well as standing up against the country's racism inherent in the holiday (paraphrased, but essentially what was said.)
I am BEYOND disgusted with the continual attacks upon the traditions of the United States. Regardless of whether Columbus ACTUALLY discovered America for Europe, we celebrate a federal holiday as if he did. Let's just leave out the fact that there ARE NO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE in America (human beings are NOT native to the Americas.)
This is no longer the nation in which I grew up. That saddens and frightens me.
It frightens me because this is the last bastion of freedom and opportunity for ALL people, regardless of accident of birth.
It saddens me because future generations won't even realize that they missed out. ~ Hunter
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