Today is a newly announced holiday, (and in my opinion a long time coming), Indigenous People’s Day. {Indigenous peoples, also referred to as first people, aboriginal people, native people, or autochthonous people, are culturally distinct ethnic groups who are native to a place that has been colonized and settled by another ethnic group}. (Wikipedia) Co-incidentally THIS holiday, competes with space on the Federal Calendar, with a holiday, many of us of older than 40, understood to be a tribute to ‘ONE HELLUVA OF A HERO’, Christopher Columbus, but who now, after reading HISTORY BOOKS based on FACTS, NOT on the privileged OPINIONS of so-called scholars spending too much time in an office, WE FIND TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL RACISTS!
There have already been HUFFS and PUFFS from the FOX ENTERTAINERS/the MAGA Minions/and of course the Myriad of GOP Wanna Be Presidential Candidates, as to just how Un-American of an idea this new holiday is... (Just consider this bit of Irony and Hypocrisy, that to name a holiday after the original inhabitants of this country is considered UN-AMERICAN!)
So let’s compromise (I don’t want to, but I will say so to make a snarky comment), Both Days can be celebrated…but then consider the fact that we would once again be celebrating the histories of either the Indigenous or the Families of the decedents of the crew of Columbus’s ships, the majority who were Spanish. OMG, how will the heads roll from all of the HATERS of anything NON-WHITE…Spanish Folk and Indigenous, not from England, Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland, Cuba (Marco), or Canada (Teddy)!
