Posted on 10/11/2014 10:04:40 AM PDT by 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
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Unless they want to meet me, Tony, and Vinny.. fogetaboutit.. :)
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.
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...
I thought it was already changed See b.s. - isn’t that what eyeball symbol is about?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It sounds to me that the leaders of Seattle actually renamed the holiday Idiot Politician Day.
I am a native born American, indigenous to America, so I will be happy to celebrate indigenous peoples day
The Wallbuilders story, as well as the links it provides, should be publicized wherever efforts are made to get rid of "Columbus Day."
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.
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.
Perhaps you work for a bank or a government entity. Columbus days means nothing to everyone else.
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