Columbus ER Indigenous day

[Lee Borgersen]

Happy Columbus Day NO! It's Happy Indigenous Peoples Day No it's .......


Instead of honoring Christopher Columbus, the Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes Native Americans, who were the first inhabitants of the land that later became the United States of America. Advocates for the switch to Indigenous Peoples Day argue dat Columbus did not “discover” America in 1492 but instead began the colonization of it. For decades, Native American activists have advocated abolishing Columbus Day, which became a federal holiday in 1937.
 

Here Are The Cities That Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day Instead of Columbus Day......


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Video.....
https://time.com/4968067/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-cities/

[Lee Borgersen]

  Columbus statue beside Coit Tower vandalized with red paint  

By Anna Bauman
6 hrs ago
 

The words “Kill all colonizers” were painted on the concrete that encircles the statue, said Supervisor Aaron Peskin, whose district encompasses the park. By Sunday afternoon, crews had cleaned up the paint on the statue, located on Telegraph Hill in North Beach.

“What a hateful, despicable piece of divisive vandalism,” Peskin said. “Really terrible.”

The San Francisco Police Department said it is aware of the incident and is investigating. Peskin said there are security cameras in the park that might have captured the incident.

Scores of people probably saw the painted message, Peskin said, because many people are in the area for Fleet Week or the Italian Heritage Parade.

The federal holiday of Columbus Day is celebrated Monday. San Francisco supervisors voted in January 2018 to instead celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.

Anna Bauman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: anna.bauman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @abauman2

[Rebel SS]

Silly boob. The VIKINGS discovered north america. 

[Outdoors Junkie]

It's Indigenous Peoples’ Day here in South Dakota. I moved to SD in 2006 and that fall was the first time I had ever heard of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

[Dotch]

I think it was Governor Goofy who did the honors here in MN. 

[Rebel SS]

I think it was Governor Goofy who did the honors here in MN. 

I think he was just copying his hero, is all.............

[Lee Borgersen]

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Silly boob. The VIKINGS discovered north america. 

  The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

Foot Note:...... But it was Trump dat made America Great!

Many Americans will celebrate the second Monday in October as Columbus Day, a federal holiday that marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s Spanish-led expedition arriving in the Americas, or as Indigenous Peoples Day, to acknowledge those who were displaced by European settlement in North America.

Others, however, will opt for Oct. 9 to celebrate something else: Leif Erikson Day, a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.


But, while it may sound only fair to share the credit for exploration, the movement to recognize Erikson also has a dark back story, as Leif Erikson Day’s history is connected to nativist backlash against immigration to the United States. At one point, for some people, the debate over who really “discovered” America came down to one question: who was whiter?

The biggest ship carrying Norwegian immigrants to the U.S. arrived in 1825, and many of its passengers went to the Midwest in search of the peace and quiet of the countryside. Their homeland had become more crowded during a population boom that the country’s economy struggled to keep pace with, according to Jørn Brøndal, professor and Chair of the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Signs of Scandinavian-American identity, such as an increase in English-language translations of the Norse sagas, began to grow.

But interest in that history really spiked after the publication of the provocatively titled 1874 book America Not Discovered By Columbus by Rasmus B. Anderson, the founder of the Scandinavian studies program at the University of Wisconsin.

Anderson’s account detailed “the first expedition to New England” in the year 1000 and described Leif Erikson as “the first pale-faced man” and “first white man who turned the bow of his ship towards the west for the purpose of finding America.” He claimed American democracy descended from Norsemen’s system of government, of “free people” whose “rulers were elected by the people in convention assembled.” Furthermore, he made a case that Americans whose ancestors came from the U.K. actually had Viking blood too, due to earlier Norse invasions of Britain. Anderson also claimed that Leif Erikson’s brother Thorvald was slaughtered by the indigenous people and buried with two crosses, and that his “skeleton in armor” was later uncovered in Massachusetts.

[glenn57]

  who cares.......................whatever..........big deal............. to this whole colmbus day indian day.........CRAP!!!!!!!!!!

i dont get the day off so..................................

[Rebel SS]

Well, maybe yer buddies at the Casino DO care.....

[glenn57]

Well, maybe yer buddies at the Casino DO care.....

my participation in casinos amounts to sitting in the parking lot for a brief period!!!!!

[mike89]

hey I got the day off!!!   

[Rebel SS]

hey I got the day off!!!   

Me too!    We should cerebrate!   

[Lee Borgersen]

Well, maybe yer buddies at the Casino DO care.....

my participation in casinos amounts to sitting in the parking lot for a brief period!!!!!

Sounds kind-a kinky ta me. Won't ask what you were doin den

[Dotch]

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[Rebel SS]

Front seat or back? 

[glenn57]

in da back of da truck!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

O my! 

[Rebel SS]

I'm gonna go celebrate today.... must be a rally somewhere down here!   

[glenn57]

I'm gonna go celebrate today.... must be a rally somewhere down here!   

maybe ya can start one.........or i'm sure the Mayo can set ya up with one!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

Well, we sure had a good run on this this thread before it ended. 

[deadeye]

I think they changed the name of October 12 because they couldn't agree on who exactly "discovered" America.  So they gave him and all the others a participation day.   

[glenn57]

Well, we sure had a good run on this this thread before it ended. 

who said it ended??????

personally I think these clowns need to find something constructive to do!!!!!! fighting to change names  wasting taxpayers money is stooped to me.

[delcecchi]

hey I got the day off!!!   

Me too.   In fact I got the week off.

[Gunner55]

Well, we sure had a good run on this this thread before it ended. 

who said it ended??????

personally I think these clowns need to find something constructive to do!!!!!! fighting to change names  wasting taxpayers money is stooped to me.

  Me too, like Lake Calhoun, Fort Snelling!! Everything has to be so PC it makes me . No wonder they can't get nothin done but rail against the other party.