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So says Chrissie Castro of the LA City-County Native American Indian Commission as she testified before L.A. city council. The council later voted 14-1 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. The APA later said that claim was false. Video of her testimony can be found in the link.
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“We have the highest rate of youth suicide. The American Psychological Association (APA) has determined that their dehumanizing symbols, such as Columbus, are part of the cause for that. We must stop that now,”
Interesting... she also claimed "millions of indigenous people call LA home". So do all Latinos now claim to be indigenous? ... to California? ... the U.S?
Statues and symbols are inanimate objects and can't make a person do anything. They do it to themselves. Anyone that would consider suicide over something like that needs professional help, and lots of it.
God forbid she sees the statues of Kit Carson, Davey Crockett, Buffalo Bill Cody, and other Indian fighters of the West. I guess they'll have to come down too.
People are so ridiculous these days. Since when did things like statues or banana peels cause so much distress? It should be an embarrassment, but these people think it's a virtue. I don't get this movement at all.
What a ridiculous lie. But frankly, the fact that anyone actually took it seriously is more troubling.
While I don't agree with the lie used to reach the conclusion, Columbus day is ridiculous. The notion that America could not exist without Columbus is frankly silly. I'll give Columbus props for being a good navigator; he's was garbage otherwise. As governor of the Indies, he was considered ineffective and a tyrant. He was not a good person. He was technically lucky. The merchant ships he was using would have fallen apart had he used more accurate math to determine the size of the Earth and if there was no America.
Columbus day, for what it's worth, isn't a terribly old holiday. I actually doubt the founding fathers spent a lot of time thinking about him. He was never considered unusually important. Italian America immigrants, however, lobbied for the holiday.
Will they have to remove him from the history books for the same reasoning ?
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