Why is Columbus day not a real holiday?

Question

Stock market is open. It's closed for most other holidays.

Over the years, Chris Columbus is being portrayed as a less than legitimate explorer. I heard all the stories, but the facts seem oblitered by the time passage.

Does this holiday have anything to do with the deminishing of Catholicism?

Excuse my typos.

Obliterated.

Diminishing.

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with Catholicism (at least, not that I am aware of) nor is it about him being "less than a legitimate explorer.
It does, however have to everything to do with the Native American tribes and what happened to them as a direct result of his "discovering" the US.
although his "discovery" was a mistake and he thought he was somewhere else, so........
anyway, it is more of a pc thing than anything else.
I imagine it won't be long before Columbus day will really be nothing more than yet another excuse to put mattresses on sale, lol.

Answer 2

I can tell you this: as a public school teacher, Columbus Day was always given OFF to the students (but NOT the teachers). But it might just have been done because that marked the end of the first 6 week marking period, and day off of students was used to fill out report cars (like yeah, right. We knew their grades one week after class started, just from experience with so many other kids).

Answer 3

Making Columbus day a real holiday is like making Indiana Jones a video game.. people just don't have holiday's about a mortal's quest, other than JESUS, of course.

Answer 4

I never got Columbus Day off from school. I guess discovering the new world doesn't count for anything.

Answer 5

Columbus day is not a holiday............beacuse its invention day.

Answer 6

ask your government