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Ban the “Redskins” name! Change the name of the Columbia River! Move the NCAA out of Indianapolis, Indiana! Hey, this is easy. :{) </ sarc>
That which is politically correct is morally objectionable. It follows as the day the night.
We are a nation brought into existence by the hand of God, now standing in dire need of His Great Awakening of our soul, lest all that we have and all that we are and all we have been given are irretrievably lost.
Because this country has no other bigger issues to worry about first...
Bigger than our continued existence as a nation?
Those who are protesting Columbus Day are idiots who must have something more important to do than that. But, alas, they are simply useful idiots.
All four of my Jewish grandparents arrived here at the turn of the 19th/20th century from Russia and Eastern Europe.
But I was born here and have lived here my whole life.
So I think “Indigenous Peopls’s Day” is a great idea.
There should be a day on which we Indigenous Americans celebrate our native American culture and heritage - from Baseball to jazz to all the inventions and prosperity that our culture has created and bestowed on the rest of the world — as a counter offensive to all the unjustified attention and special privileges bestowed on the illegal aliens who have invaded us over the past several decades.
So here’s to “Indigenous People’s Day.” I hope it catches on nationwide next year, as a way of reclaiming our true American heritage.
I’ll start the celebration with a nice cold bottle of Sam Adams. How will you celebrate?
I should add that display of the Mexican flag ought to be outlawed on Indigenous people’s day, just as the display of the American flag has been outlawed on Sink O’DeMaio.
No kidding! Columbus day not being a federal holiday is not the end of the country. It and other holidays like it are set up to benefit government employees and unions. Columbus day as a federal holiday is as big a waste as MLK birthday, labor day and even veterans day. The only veterans who have Veterans Day as a holiday are active duty and those who work in a government or union position. The vast majority of us don’t get that day off.
National holidays should be Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years Day. Celebrate all others as holidays as you will but not as Federal holidays, wasting our tax dollars.
First of all, the Arawaks Columbus first met were victims of slavery and cannibalism from the dreaded Caribs. One can deny it, but there is evidence of it.
Secondly, at the Alamo there were over 20 out of 200+ who died who had Spanish surnames, thus they were Mexicans fighting against the ruthless Santa Anna.
This is not to say Columbus and other Conquistadors were not cruel. But it is silly to compare moral standards, or any other standards, of those living over 500 years ago to today. Everyone, or most everyone, was cruel in the 16th Century by our standards.
Bookmarked.
I call it "STINKO de mayo."
My dad was born in Mexico but he LOVED his adopted country. He fought in WWII, even though he didn't "have to," being a foreigner. WHY wouldn't he fight for America, his home? He LOVED the U.S.A.!
Please refer interested readers to this article from David Barton's "Wallbuilders" web site--an article which could educate current generations on the significance of Christopher Columbus, his story, how it relates to the real history of America's founding, and the citations which will provide the underlying reason why so-called "progressives" must press for eradicating his memory and the "day" named for him.
The Wallbuilders story, as well as the links it provides, should be publicized wherever efforts are made to get rid of "Columbus Day."
Since the late 1800's, when then self-described "liberals" (now self-described as "progressives") began their determined effort to "change" America, the so-called "public square" has been censored of many of the essential ideas of liberty enshrined in and underlying the Constitution's protections.
Even today, they are systematically dismantling the greatest protections for liberty ever established for a people.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
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ALL that you say is true, true and true.
The FIRST Americans were the ASIANs who left Asia a long, long time ago. There was MUCH research done by the uber liberal scientists in the West to negate that Asian heritage. But, thanks to good ole DNA it was proven that those FIRST Americans were from the SIBERIAN HUNTER GROUPS. DNA proved that, all the way from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, Strait of Magellan.
One of those DNA factors was the Oriental Asian allergy to alcohol from fermented grapes.
CERTAINLY they enslaved the conquered tribes. That's what humans have been doing ever since original sin. Why would the FIRST Americans be any different?
“In Seattle, Columbus Day became Indigenous People’s Day”
After the 2016 elections, what’s left of the United States will be the de facto People’s Republic of Indigenous Dolts.
Lets see.... the very people who exploit people of color are the people protesting Columbus because he exploited people of color.
Brilliantly written and most important for an understanding of what is truly at stake. The past 125 years have been witness to a steady erosion of the miracle of the USA.
This nation was established to provide a genuine alternative to the tyrannies that have beset civilization. We are most clearly NOT a nation like any other.
The vision that burned in the hearts and minds of our founders is still bright in the hearts and minds of patriots today. We will not long tolerate the fouling of the dream of free people.
My tagline since 2004:
“Dems, Libs, Socialists, call ‘em what you will. They all have fairies livin’ in their trees.”
And ants living in their pants.
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