I thought that columbus day was pronounced that it wasn't a holiday anymore because they found out he was a murdering bastard. Why are people still celebrating it?
2006-10-09 16:00:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
People just don't know any better. The local chapter of the DAR here has a yearly essay contest on Columbus and the winning school child wins a $50 savings bond. I wonder if the child that writes about Columbus' genocide and slavery would win or be lectured about his so called "good" contributions to the world.
2006-10-09 16:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by dlobryan1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope. It's still a holiday. Murdering bastard and all.
2006-10-09 23:06:24 · answer #2 · answered by Kimmy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to your public library and read if it was indeed Columbus that murdered all those Native Americans, or soldiers with greed for gold, or adelantados and hidalgos who enslaved them and worked them to death, or the inquisiton, go.
2006-10-09 23:05:56 · answer #3 · answered by KonSengWon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well it's not really a holiday. only the government things are closed, not schools.
2006-10-09 23:08:07 · answer #4 · answered by chaos causer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people like getting discounts on clothes at Macys, and no government employee likes to work on monday.
2006-10-09 23:09:05 · answer #5 · answered by aynek 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont celebrate it.. i am Indian
2006-10-09 23:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by pink9364 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he was a great man. dont be jealous of the O.G.'s
2006-10-10 03:34:42 · answer #7 · answered by sobekBOS 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, who did he personally kill?
2006-10-09 23:10:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋