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Old 11-17-2015, 08:20 PM
 
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Ann Arbor to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day | MLive.com
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Old 11-17-2015, 08:56 PM
 
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Nobody celebrates Columbus Day, anyway. Does anybody really know how to celebrate Columbus Day? It isn't so sacred a holiday that it must always be celebrated on October 12th, like Independence Day (July 4th) or Christmas, (Dec 25th). They changed it to a Monday in October so govt workers can have a 3 day weekend. The stores don't close. The schools don't close. The mail doesnt run and the banks are closed. Otherwise, Columbus Day is pretty much a business as usual day. It's not like the stores are going to be losing any money.
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Old 11-28-2015, 05:11 PM
 
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I guess Columbus Day is or used to be a big deal for Italian-Americans in some communities, mainly out east, but it never was in Ann Arbor when I was growing up there. Here's some historical info that supports rethinking Columbus Day. (Warning: it's gruesome.)
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Old 11-30-2015, 01:17 PM
 
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Not as gruesome as the reality, alas.


First Nations people have been protesting Columbus Day all through the Americas for decades. Their lives were far from perfect before Columbus landed, but afterward -- holy feces! Smallpox, plague, scarlet fever; trying to wage war against cannons and guns with spears and arrows; starvation; kidnapping; slavery; on and on. 31 flavors of genocide.


Quick statistic: before Columbus, in what is now known as the USA, 100% of the people living here were members of Native American tribes. Now? 0.09% are, and a lot of those people aren't even allowed to legally enroll in their own tribes because of bureaucratic barriers, like "you can't join because your mom never signed up" -- even if mom never signed up because she was kidnapped and sent to a white boarding school so young that she never knew her ethnic identity until it was too late.


Another: in Canada, they had about 11 million people at last count. Only a million and a half identify themselves as First Nations. And only 250,000 or so speak a tribal language as their mother tongue. No Native language -- even a super-common one like Cree -- is counted among the major languages spoken in the country.


I suggest therefore that Columbus has a day named after him because he was so incredibly successful in fathering the genocide of hundreds of tribes. Bartolome doesn't rate because he lost the war against the destruction.
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Old 11-30-2015, 03:56 PM
 
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^Not disagreeing with the general point you're making, but Canada's population is ~36 million.
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