Monday, October 8, 2012

Columbus Day

This is Columbus Day, a federal holiday.  I agree with those who  question honoring this man who brought terrorism and pestilence to the indigenous peoples of North America.  I can understand the holiday as honoring Italian Americans in the past and perhaps honoring our multicultural past, but still I wonder if this is proper.  History is seldom neat.  Our legacy of Christopher Columbus is very historically muddy.

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