Is It Time To Say Goodbye To Columbus Day? (video)[Renamed As "Indigenous People's Day"]

CBSNews ^ | October 11, 2014

[Steelfish]

Is It Time To Say Goodbye To Columbus Day? OCTOBER 11, 2014. Historian Kenneth C. Davis joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss the controversial holiday that some Americans want to rename Indigenous People's Day

[carlo3b]

Are the Italians willing to give it up so easily?

Unless they want to meet me, Tony, and Vinny.. fogetaboutit.. :)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A better alternative is to call it “exploration day”, to honor explorers, past, present and future.

This is not something socialists or the left will approve of.

1) Explorers, even in a group, are individuals, as are their victories and defeats.

2) Explorers can look within or outside, but they seek discovery, to find out the true unknown.

3) Explorers are indifferent to the mundane, the known, and the mediocre. They disdain the status quo, and what others say is their place in society.

[Zeppo]

Let’s start with renaming everything columbia. The former Columbia University is now the University of Karl Marx, the District of Columbia is now renamed taxes, laws, kickbacks and corruption Center (TLKC), the Columbia River is now the indigenous wsterway, Columbia Studios is now Overpriced entertainment inc. and the Columbia space shuttle disaster is now the indigenous rocket oopsy.

You left out an important one, namely CBS itself.

While it's now known as CBS, Inc., for most of its ugly history it was named the Columbia Broadcasting System.

I would suggest that it's necessary for CBS to pay reparations to indigenous peoples everywhere, and also change their name to Indigenous Broadcasting System (IBS). There's more than enough BS in CBS to go around...

[DaveyB]

I thought it was already changed See b.s. - isn’t that what eyeball symbol is about?

[wideminded]

The holiday is NOT controversial, and those who think it is are NOT Americans.

I'm an American and I can recall writing a report on Columbus in the second grade. You can't take away the achievement of discovering the New World. But there is no question that this was immediately followed by a terrible genocide that was documented by eyewitnesses and which began under the governorship of Columbus. The idea that one should celebrate the positive aspect of Columbus and at the same time overlook the enslavement, torture, mutilation, and killing of millions of people is very controversial.

[oblomov]

While we’re at it, why should we have the name “America” in the name of the country? It was chosen to honor an Italian explorer.

[Gator113]

As for me, there will always be a Columbus Day. There will also be Thanksgiving, Halloween - which is my birthday, and Christmas to celebrate the birth of Christ. All traditional holidays will remain the same for me.

I will not comply with ANY of this lib nonsense and I will look forward to the just and long awaited end of the second Civil War. I am not certain that Civil War II hasn’t already started, but if it hasn’t, I believe that it certainly will.

[wally_bert]

I didn’t care for it as a kid of the 70s either.

With all the wackos, nuts, and crazies out there, I’m glad I have no children.

[Irish Queen]

It sounds to me that the leaders of Seattle actually renamed the holiday Idiot Politician Day.

[dennisw]

I am a native born American, indigenous to America, so I will be happy to celebrate indigenous peoples day

[loveliberty2]

Please refer interested readers to this article from David Barton's "Wallbuilders" web site which could educate current generations on the significance of Christopher Columbus, his story, and the citations which will provide the real 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."

[oh8eleven]

I'm an American and I can recall writing a report on Columbus in the second grade.
The idea that one should celebrate the positive aspect of Columbus and at the same time overlook the enslavement, torture, mutilation, and killing of millions of people is very controversial.
Sounds like you never made much progress after second grade.

[Mmmike]

CBS should die off while we hold on to Columbus Day.

This is just distraction by outrage. Meanwhile this scum network remains uninterested in a scum “President” who uses stolen SS numbers, and another who raped Juanita Broaddrick.

[wideminded]

Sounds like you never made much progress after second grade.

Actually it's the other way around. I took an early interest in Columbus. But unlike you I eventually took the time to find out the truth behind the stories one learns in elementary school.

[GingisK]

I don't like the way you think.

Perhaps you work for a bank or a government entity. Columbus days means nothing to everyone else.