Seattle is not the first location to stop recognizing Columbus day but it is only the second to assigned an alternate designation My only regret is that .the resolution does not seem to go far enough. While it recognizes that Native Americans were here first, it fails to address the invading Europeans did great harm and committed acts of genocide. However this is a good start. Let the howling about the liberal obsession with political correctness begin.
That the continued colonization of American Indian nations, peoples, and lands provides the United States the economic and material resources needed to cast its imperialist gaze globally is a fact that is simultaneously obvious within—and yet continually obscured by—what is essentially a settler colony’s national construction of itself as an ever more perfect multicultural, multiracial democracy. . . . [T]he status of American Indians as sovereign nations colonized by the United States continues to haunt and inflect its raison d’etre. —Jodi Byrd http://www.salon.com/2014/10/13/north_america_is_a_crime_scene_the_untold_history_of_america/
John Oliver: Why Is Columbus Day Still a Thing? http://progressivevoices.com/john-oliver-why-is-columbus-day-still-a-thing/ So, how is it....still a thing?
Ah....this should shed some light on the right wing hysteria over Columbus!! http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/...as-anti-muslim-crusader-to-excuse-atrocities/
Columbus did atrocities, but the Native Americans were not so peaceful either. The Plains Indians did a lot of brutal things too. http://aoxoa.co/native-american-headdress-music-festival/
OK, I'll grant you all of that although I'm not very knowledgeable about early American history . But so what? How many wrongs make a right? Does any of it excuse Columbus? Sam, do you think that Columbus was allowed to know the kingdom of heaven? Do you think that the fact that he was not the only one guilty of atrocities made a difference in the eyes of god? Do you really believe that he deserves a holiday and to have numerous locations, and highways named for him-numerous statues of him? Do you think that children should be taught a white washed history of him as an explorer and hero while glossing over all the bad stuff?
