Americans recently celebrated Columbus Day. Some “woke folks” have tried to change the name to Indigenous Peoples Day, but it’ll always be Columbus Day to me and others. For those illogically thinking members of society constantly wanting to change history—they should create another day to have American Natives honored besides the second Monday of October. There’s plenty of room for additional federal holidays on the calendar—354 open slots to be exact.
Columbus Day was created in 1892 by President Benjamin Harrison, as a way to memorialize the lives of 11 Italian Americans killed in New Orleans by a vigilante mob on March 14, 1891. Nine of the Italians were lynched with two of them shot. The massacre created quite a rift between Italy and United States relations, with President Harrison attempting to calm the tension with his declaration. This bit of history is never brought up by those trying to remove Columbus Day because undoubtedly, they know little of the history.
For political leaders to now try and erase Columbus Day is a blunt insult to Italians throughout the world, especially those immigrants and their ancestors having settled in America. It’s no different than 50 years down the road, a group of self-described “do-gooders” deciding to change the holiday names of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or Washington’s Birthday, after delving into their lives and discovering morally questionable behavior.
Records show that neither George Washington nor Martin Luther King Jr. were perfect, much the same as Christopher Columbus. Why punish these guys eons after they were placed in the grave?
Getting back to the definition of “woke.” I hear this word all the time regarding a certain group of thinkers, and it makes me visualize a mass of half-asleep people trying to make decisions when they’re not fully awake. It’s evident that those trying to erase Columbus Day—still need to wake up and smell the coffee!
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