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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:05 AM   #1
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What exactly do we celebrate on Columbus Day?

Is it Tyranny, Exploitation, and Racism as Marc Becker suggests in his article: "Columbus Day Protest"


Celebrating the genocide of hundreds of millions of native Americans by the white men.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:08 AM   #2
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I hate Columbus. Therefore I do not celebrate Columbus day.
No one does anything but not go to school on Columbus day, and my school doesn't even do that anymore.
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Default Re: Columbus Day? Why celebrate?
So that we get a day off.

What fun!

But yes. Other than that, it is useless.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:12 AM   #4
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We don't even get a fucking day off at my school.

Some people are like, "It's Columbus Day".

But nobody at my school gives a shit. Not even the Social Studies teachers.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:14 AM   #5
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Default Re: Columbus Day? Why celebrate?
Because most Americans are stupid. They have no idea what he did. But, he pretty much started it, the Americans finished it, destroying a culture and people that remain rare to find.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:18 AM   #6
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Because most Americans are stupid. They have no idea what he did. But, he pretty start it, the American finished, destroying a culture and people that remain rare to find.
Like, my 7th grade teacher explained exactly what he did.

Plus, like every teacher has to comment about how Lief Erickson found America first. Like we haven't been told 50 times.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:31 AM   #7
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Like, my 7th grade teacher explained exactly what he did.

Plus, like every teacher has to comment about how Lief Erickson found America first. Like we haven't been told 50 times.
That and Columbus died thinking that he reached Asia. .
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:40 AM   #8
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I don't even get this day off.

I mean, come on! The guy discovered the New World!
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Old October 16th, 2008, 04:49 AM   #9
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Celebrating the genocide of hundreds of millions of native Americans by the white men.
Just because he was the first one to call them Indians doesn't mean he the guy was Custer.
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Old October 16th, 2008, 07:12 AM   #10
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I've really never understood the holiday either. I mean, sure this guy did open the gates for more exploration and eventual take over of the Americas, but he wasn't the first person there, nor was Lief Erickson. Honeslty, if it was known exactly when the first "native" american stepped foot on America's soil, that should be more of a holiday than Columbus Day.

Then again, I've heard something about a group of people called the "clovis" people and how they were supposedly wiped out 13000 years.. but were in North America before the Native Americans we know today. I wonder..
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That and Columbus died thinking that he reached Asia. .
The guy didn't even reach America. He landed on some islands around the Caribbeans
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well i get a day off which is always great for me
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Old October 16th, 2008, 10:08 AM   #13
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What are you guys talking about? Christopher Columbus was a pimp! He grew up on the south side of Europe! He's an incarnation of awesomeness in the form of a famous guy!
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That and Columbus died thinking that he reached Asia. .
lolol. that still makes me laugh.

if this were really asia. i don't think we would be the way we are now.

but anyways.

in my opinion: this is a shitty holiday. ehhh, i just don't really care for it. to me its just another regular day that i even forget that's supposed to be a holiday.
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its my birthday that's why.
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