BlackSand
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Columbus Day, or Indigenous People's Day...depending upon where you live...is upon us. My ethnic heritage calls me to respect both holidays, I am a mixed breed person, my father is a german and Irish man and my mother is Spanish and Mescalero Apache from New Mexico. The real internal battle comes from my mother's side, I am related directly to Ferdinand, the main financiers of Columbus's journey. I am also directly related to the Apache, specifically the Mescalero clan. People who know this ask me how I could support one over the other. I don't believe I do, I respect my grandfather who taught me the Apache warrior code... Part of that demands I respect the victor in the wars that diminished half of my bloodline and their ability to kill.
I also have to respect the white man for not killing us all after all the Apache did to whites. Yes, natives were ruthless too. There is no noble race.
Ultimately I respect the warrior code of my mother's people and will be celebrating Columbus Day.
Because he won, and as such....he's the only one worth celebrating.
All humanity has been founded on war and plunder ... No ethnic group is immune.
We should celebrate our successes and learn from our failures ... Neither is greater than the other.
The people who chose to make Columbus Day the Indigenous People's Day ... Didn't do so to honor anyone ... They did it just out of spite.
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