Renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day

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   This poll inspired by one of my favorite Briefers, a little history:

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After strong lobbying from the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization consisting largely of Italian Americans, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Oct. 12, 1937, as the first Columbus Day and “directed that flags be displayed on all government buildings on that date,” according to a front page item in the Los Angeles Times that September.

“Each recurrence of Columbus Day brings to all of us a greater appreciation of the heritage we have received as a result of the faith and courage and fortitude of the Genoese navigator and his brave companions,” Roosevelt said to mark the occasion the next year. (Celebrations in Los Angeles honoring Christopher Columbus were happening as far back as 1932, according to news reports at the time.)

Congress passed the Monday Holiday Law in 1968, establishing the three-day weekend for some federal holidays and adding Columbus Day as an official public holiday. By then, 45 states were already observing it.

Since then, efforts to eliminate or rename the Columbus Day holiday in various states and cities have met strong resistance from Italian Americans, who have said Columbus is an important figure in their heritage and calling such efforts “anti-Italian American.”

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https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-columbus-day-why-do-we-still-celebrate-20151012-htmlstory.html

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There is nothing new with this. It is the same as the Left calling Thanksgiving a 'Harvest Celebration', and calling Christmas a 'Winter Holiday'. The purpose of the American Left is to rename and secularize everything as part of the goal of erasing all traditional American culture. If they cannot ban it or do away with a tradition entirely, they rename it to make it unrecognizable from history.

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The desire of the left to destroy and deny history makes Orwell look prescient.

Liberals are history deniers as well as science deniers.