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 THEDEVMAN1 rated 12 months ago - YAY!Lets protest Columbus day now! What a bunch of morons.
Here's the Deal. When Columbus came to America(chances are he actually landed in the west Indies and not actually on our shores where there were what we know as Native Americans)he wasn't looking for slaves but rather(and for the ...
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- jmdcpa rated 10 months ago
- We should repeal Columbus Day. The Spaniards committed genocide on the islands they 'conquered', then imported slaves from Africa to do their bidding. I don't think Columbus ever set foot in America.
- THEDEVMAN1 rated 12 months ago
- YAY!Lets protest Columbus day now! What a bunch of morons.
Here's the Deal. When Columbus came to America(chances are he actually landed in the west Indies and not actually on our shores where there were what we know as Native Americans)he wasn't looking for slaves but rather(and for the libs I'll leave out that he had a vision of a new country from God oops looks like I added it!)to prove the world was round, and to look for new trade routes for Spain e.T.C. He left a contingent of his group in America (or the west Indies)so he could go back and tell the Queen of Spain what he had found. When he came back(look this is a very paraphrased telling,look it up yourself)he found that 40 of his men had been BRUTALLY slaughtered. So,(as was the custom of the day) he made war with the indigenous people of either North America or the west Indies (confused yet?)and killed many of them in retaliation and (as was the custom of the day) took those who lived, back as slaves.
Thats how they used to do it in Africa,Norway,England,Rome, you get the picture.
Does it make it right? Hell no! But it makes these protesters(as most protesters are) WRONG!
COLUMBUS WAS NOT WHITE! He was Italian, but of course when you are dealing with unreasonable liberal demonstrators he called them the "white man".
When are we going to STOP whining about the past? About things that DID NOT HAPPEN TO YOU TODAY. Native Americans have gotten all they deserve as far as reparations. They are called casinos! And tax free smokes and lots of other goodies (I'm not sayin,I'm just sayin).
As far as Columbus day goes it's a meaningless holiday but I think they need to get the facts straight and stop the silliness.They were actually thrown in jail NOT for protesting the parade but for blocking it AND throwing bloody doll parts at people which is a form of assault in most American cities. ANYONE DISAGREE? I'd like to hear your "thoughtful" "meaningful" discourse on the subject. I'm into TALKING not YELLING.
- Username2000 rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "About 75 protesters, including American Indian activist Russell Means, were arrested on Saturday after blocking Denver's downtown parade honoring the Italian-born discoverer Christopher Columbus, an event they denounced as "a celebration of genocide.""
Well it is a celebration of genocide.
- cgsheldon rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "Columbus Day protest in Denver leads to arrests"
- rodneyj43 rated 12 months ago
- Personally, I've long forgotten about Columbus Day. I even forget about it every year when it's a day off from work for me. I forgot about it this year, I was reminded by workmates on friday not to come to work on monday. But I will probably go in anyway because I had forgotten about the day off and had things I had planned to do before tuesday arrived. Columbus himself? Well his travels more-or-less proved to the 'civilized' world that the world was round, or at the very least a very large step towards that proof. Beyond that, well...geez.. I'd rather have a "Copernicus Day" or a "Galileo Day" if we are going to celebrate popular cartography. But I certainly understand and can empathize with the sentiment of these native americans as much as I could any indigenous peoples who became either enslaved or slaughtered under any kind of imperialist rule, and I support their right to keep reminding us of the atrocities done to land us where we are. If for nothing else to remind us to take the responsibility to make sure it never happens again.
(uff da, as I wrote that last line, an f-15 flew by VERY CLOSE, it's 'fleet week' here in SF..uggh.."Oh blue Angels, you are but gawds to us!"--Wayne Horvitz)
From the page: "DENVER (Reuters) - About 75 protesters, including American Indian activist Russell Means, were arrested on Saturday after blocking Denver's downtown parade honoring the Italian-born discoverer Christopher Columbus, an event they denounced as "a celebration of genocide."
Police loaded protesters onto buses after they refused orders to disperse. Most will be charged with obstruction of a roadway or disrupting a lawful assembly, Denver Police Lt. Ron Saunier said.
Police delayed the parade's start for more than an hour as they tried to head off confrontations.
American Indian groups and their supporters have disrupted the city's annual Columbus Day parade every year for nearly two decades, leading to clashes with Colorado's Italian-American community over the century-old celebration, the longest-running such commemoration in the United States.
Columbus Day, marked this year on October 8, is an official holiday for most U.S. federal government workers, many public schools, state and local agencies and the U.S. bond market. It recalls the October 12, 1492, landing of Columbus in the Americas on his search for a naval route to India, an event that spawned an era of European interest in the New World.
Means, talking to Reuters before his arrest, said Columbus was the "first trans-Atlantic slave trader" after landing in the Americas in 1492. He said Columbus started centuries of oppression of native peoples.
"By all accounts, Christopher Columbus was personally responsible for thousands of deaths of the original inhabitants of this hemisphere," Means said.
Parade organizer George Vendegnia of the Sons of Italy said his group would honor Columbus' legacy until the U.S. Congress changed the holiday's name. Some cities including Berkeley, California, have already changed the name to "Indigenous People's Day." "
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