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Why the **** do conservatives care so much about an Italian working for the Spanish who got lost?
Because they support progress like Cristoforo Colombo from Genoa made, even if it means cutting off a few children's hands for not mining silver efficiently enough.
So are you denying that Austin is loaded with drug addicted hobos and vagrants? Every city has them but Austin actually celebrates them as part of the local fauna.
Then you are OK with getting rid of MLK day too since it no doubt "offends" some people.
A Black man being shot dead 50+ years ago certainly doesn't deserve more consideration than than Christopher Columbus discovering North America. (yeah, I know about the Vikings but they didn't like what they saw, and left)
Remember, It's your logic.
MLK was much more than “a black man”. Columbus was a mass murderer/enslaver. I don’t see how they would compare to each other.
Look at all the tears because Austin will not longer commemorate someone who didn't do anything worth commemorating. This is what happens when a culture lies to itself for centuries. People fight to celebrate the mediocre and, even worse, those among the most vile and violent.
Love him or hate him, one fact is undeniable: Columbus started a revolution that changed the world for all time.
Columbus was flawed, but he was man of his times. Columbus' reputation ebbs and flows with our times as well. The US, as well as the rest of the world, is sensitive to the injustices of the past. As we should all be.
But times will change in the future as space exploration takes its place as man's next big endeavor. The explorers of the past, I predict, will have some of their tarnished reputation rehabilitated.
You can't forget the injustices that they wrought, but they were intrepid and risk takers.
Though created by FDR, Columbus Day has its antecedents nearly a century before. I would not change it.
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