So Tomorrow Is Indigenous Peoples Day

[ChristisKing]

Don't we already have a holiday like that after Halloween?

And what about him?

 

[$ecular#eckler]

Good one

 

[Auld Phart]

Never heard of it.

My calendar says tomorrow is Columbus day

 

[Moonglow]

Don't we already have a holiday like that after Halloween?


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[ChristisKing]

Good one

Wow, we actually agree for once.

 

[IM2]

Never heard of it.

My calendar says tomorrow is Columbus day

Columbus never got here.

 

[IM2]

Don't we already have a holiday like that after Halloween?


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Why do you have a problem with this?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Don't we already have a holiday like that after Halloween?

The holiday after Halloween celebrates white people surviving a tough winter

 

[Auld Phart]

Columbus never got here.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why do you have a problem with this?

well Duh! do you really need to ask

 

[fncceo]

Columbus never got here.

He must have made it as far as Ohio. He named a city after himself.

There's a statue there and everything.

 

[whitehall]

Nope, maybe you slept through history 101 but the Puritans are not indigenous.

 

[elektra]

Thank god for columbus, certainly those three ships inadvertly sailed the right course and straightened out history until our current democrat mess

 

[DGS49]

Use your imagination. If Columbus had never come here, and other enlightened Western and Eastern populations decided to allow the America's to continue without outside interference, the indigenous people here would probably still...

• have no real written language,
• have not invented the wheel,
• have no animals sufficiently domesticated to do work,
• have not invented iron or steel, or any other metal sufficiently hard to make a durable blade,
• have no gunpowder or other substance capable of explosion,
• be practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism,
• have average lifespans in the 30-40 years,
• have nothing resembling actual medicine, as a skill or practice,
• have no idea of the shape of the earth or what lies outside what is visible from American shores,

...you get the idea.

The best thing that ever happened to the indigenous people was the "invasion" by Europeans. Just like the best thing that ever happened in the family histories of African Americans was the transporting of their ancestors to these shores, as slaves.

 

[BackAgain]

I wish everyone a very happy and healthy Columbus Day!

 

[ChristisKing]

I wish everyone a very happy and healthy Columbus Day!

I get your point but you don't have to make it sound like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[BackAgain]

I get your point but you don't have to make it sound like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

No worries. I wish everyone health and happiness every day.

 

[Rogue AI]

Sounds like a depressing holiday. Some old white guy reminding the Indians that all this was once theirs.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Use your imagination. If Columbus had never come here, and other enlightened Western and Eastern populations decided to allow the America's to continue without outside interference, the indigenous people here would probably still...

• have no real written language,
• have not invented the wheel,
• have no animals sufficiently domesticated to do work,
• have not invented iron or steel, or any other metal sufficiently hard to make a durable blade,
• have no gunpowder or other substance capable of explosion,
• be practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism,
• have average lifespans in the 30-40 years,
• have nothing resembling actual medicine, as a skill or practice,
• have no idea of the shape of the earth or what lies outside what is visible from American shores,

...you get the idea.

The best thing that ever happened to the indigenous people was the "invasion" by Europeans. Just like the best thing that ever happened in the family histories of African Americans was the transporting of their ancestors to these shores, as slaves.

And don’t forget that it was the European invaders who ultimately stopped the cycle of annihilation and tribal extermination that the indigenous peoples had perpetuated throughout their existence here in this hemisphere.