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Old 10-15-2015, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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It seems that the Bridgeport Board of Education has changed the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous People Day. A new temporary Board member brought it up to them and they fell for it. To me this is just another stupid politically correct maneuver to appease a vocal few. I hope the Italian community in Bridgeport goes after the Board for this stupid move. I am tired of having to constantly apologize for history. Columbus is credited with making Europe aware of North America. Whether that is considered to be discovering it or not is immaterial. To change a long time holiday is just insulting and sends just as poor a message, if not worse, than keeping it the day to honor someone who got us where we are today. What do you think? Jay

Columbus Day now

 
Old 10-15-2015, 12:16 PM
 
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I agree.

I better not lose the day as a state holiday... since they haven't added Kwanzaa or other fairly new "holidays".
 
Old 10-15-2015, 12:17 PM
 
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I am okay with it. Know a few Italians are okay with it. I think it's a good move.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 12:31 PM
 
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I know there is at least one other state that has done it, in the PNW.

It's a federal holiday, isn't it? If so, how can a state or a city over ride that? And why change a holiday that we've had for a long time. "Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in fourteen hundred ninety two." We all learned that as a kid, it's a tradition, why change it to something else? What's next? Take away Thanksgiving? Christmas? They're not politically correct either.

Make a new holiday but don't change one that is already there. I'm not Italian so that has nothing to do with it. It's just stupid.

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Old 10-15-2015, 12:31 PM
 
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It's a stupid change. They should pick another day for that, perhaps the day after or before Columbus' day.

On the other hand, does anyone knows what percentage of CT's population identifies as Native American? I say identifies because genetic studies show that most people claiming to be Native Americans are in reality highly admixed, with a significant proportion of them being predominantly of European ancestry. In Latin American countries they would be considered mestizos which means mixed and not Native Americans.

Poor Columbus has been shred to pieces by some people, even though the people that actually committed the atrocities were other men that arrived with him. It also amazes me how people ignore that the first defenders of the human rights of the Native Americans were Europeans too, namely Bartolome de las Casas and Antonio de Montesinos, two Spanish priests in the early 16th century.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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As long as the PC police are satisfied, that's all that matters.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 01:38 PM
 
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I guess its a good diversion from the fact that a convicted felon is likely to become mayor.

I'm surprised the city of Hartford hasn't jumped on this bandwagon yet. Their municipal government is usually at the forefront of empty gestures. Plus, it would be a diversion from the fact that they gave a convicted felon almost $2 million to "develop" Dillon Stadium.

But its a pretty random holiday when you think about it. Columbus wan't even the first European in North America. That honor belongs to Leif Erikson. Erikson Day is October 9. Seems pretty easy to replace Columbus Day with Erikson Day or combine the two into Explorers Day or some similar nonsense to keep the PC police quiet.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 01:41 PM
 
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I know there is at least one other state that has done it, in the PNW.

It's a federal holiday, isn't it? If so, how can a state or a city over ride that?
FYI: there are several states that do not recognize Columbus Day as a holiday. While those states won't get their mail delivered on that day, the kids go to school and state and local governments act like it is any other Monday. Just because it is a federal holiday, it doesn't mean you have to shut everything down. It just means federal offices and agencies won't be operating business as usual.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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"Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in sixteen hundred forty two." We all learned that as a kid, it's a tradition, why change it to something else?
You didn't learn it very well, I guess. It was fourteen hundred and ninety-two.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 05:08 PM
 
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Didn't in 1000AD Lief Ericsson sail to America, Junk in 1421-1423, and Amerigo Vespucci in 1497-1500
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