I’ve got this so far. I need more background on the bad things Columbus Did. And what indigenous people think about the change. How and why it should be changed. And how we move foward.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. We’ve heard this since we were in elementary school. The problem with elementary school is that a lot is left out of the history books. Rape, enslavement, genocide, land robbery, systemic torture, among other horrid things wouldn’t stop President Franklin to designate Columbus Day as a federal holiday in 1934. Do you see the issue here? Our nation doesn’t have Adolf Hitler Day, so why is Columbus Day a federal holiday? We have a holiday to celebrate a bad explorer, who discovered America by mistake, forced the native people into slavery, tortured and raped them; stole and forced them out of their homeland. Yeah, doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.
Columbus Day would first be celebrated in 1792 by Tammany Hall on the 300th anniversary of Columbus arrival in America. One hundred years later, President Benjamin Harrion would issue a proclamation in 1892, recommending the observance of the discovery of America. In 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. Since then, Columbus Day has been commemorated with schools’ programs, community festivities, and parades. I don’t understand that concept. I think we can all agree Columbus was not a good man and we don’t need a federal holiday to celebrate him discovering the new land. He didn’t discover anything. The native people were living in what we now call America 14,000 years before Columbus was even born. In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. We’ve heard this since we were in elementary school. The problem with elementary school is that a lot is left out of the history books. Rape, enslavement, genocide, land robbery, systemic torture, among other horrid things wouldn’t stop President Franklin to designate Columbus Day as a federal holiday in 1934. Do you see the issue here? Our nation doesn’t have Adolf Hitler Day, so why is Columbus Day a federal holiday? We have a holiday to celebrate a bad explorer, who discovered America by mistake, forced the native people into slavery, tortured and raped them; stole and forced them out of their homeland. Yeah, doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.
Columbus Day would first be celebrated in 1792 by Tammany Hall on the 300th anniversary of Columbus arrival in America. One hundred years later, President Benjamin Harrion would issue a proclamation in 1892, recommending the observance of the discovery of America. In 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. Since then, Columbus Day has been commemorated with schools’ programs, community festivities, and parades. I don’t understand that concept. I think we can all agree Columbus was not a good man and we don’t need a federal holiday to celebrate him discovering the new land. He didn’t discover anything. The native people were living in what we now call America 14,000 years before Columbus was even born.
