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Old 10-14-2013, 09:53 AM
 
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I agree. columbus day is as absurd as MLK day. why we honor these people is beyond me.
How does Columbus compare to MLK?
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:01 AM
 
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Oh, really? You don't fear knowlege? You use it? Hahahahahaha!

If you don't fear knowledge, why do you feel the need to trash our history and rewrite it?
Who is rewriting history? Looks to me like we are trying to expose what it really is.
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:24 AM
 
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Who honors columbus but IA societies with spaghetti dinners. Noodles from Asia and tomatos from the new world.

Let them have thier party.

Who honors MLK but AA's with fried chicken and watermelon.

Let them have their party.


Do you see what I did there Chimulo?
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Who honors MLK but AA's with fried chicken and watermelon.

Let them have their party.


Do you see what I did there Chimulo?

You forgot purple drank.
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:28 AM
 
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We celebrate the explorer, not his personal faults and failures. Do you focus on JFK's faults too, because he had many.
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:39 AM
 
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Putting all the nonsensical PC stuff aside, Columbus still was a pretty crappy dude.
So was Leif Eríksson and all of the early world explorers.
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:55 AM
 
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We celebrate the explorer, not his personal faults and failures. Do you focus on JFK's faults too, because he had many.
It's one thing to be a mean dude or a jackass, to be a sociopthical tyrant who enslaves and massacred natives for gold and didn't actually "discover" anything? What did Columbus do that warrants us to honor him?
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Old 10-14-2013, 10:59 AM
 
Location: texas
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Who honors MLK but AA's with fried chicken and watermelon.

Let them have their party.


Do you see what I did there Chimulo?
I love fried chicken and watermelon...when's lunch? All you did is make me hungry.
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Old 10-14-2013, 11:04 AM
 
Location: texas
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Like is said, maybe there is a spaghetti dinner somewhere in my city...but not much else.


This is the MLK march in my town...


100,000 marchers.

bring on the KFC and watermelon.
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Old 10-14-2013, 11:29 AM
 
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It's one thing to be a mean dude or a jackass, to be a sociopthical tyrant who enslaves and massacred natives for gold and didn't actually "discover" anything? What did Columbus do that warrants us to honor him?
Really? Is that what Columbus did? Link, please. And just who were these "natives"?
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