Pssst … Don’t Tell Anyone, But Yesterday Was Columbus Day
SweetCharity tells me it’s a “Yankee holiday,” and other native Texans say it was never that big a deal in schools here anyway. Still, the utter void of local news or notice about Columbus Day–it was yesterday, by the way–is striking to anyone who grew up thinking of the holiday as sort of important in our country’s history. As usual you can blame the blackout on the gods and goddesses of PC, who’ve cowed everybody into thinking the West’s “discovery” of the Americas was somehow evil. To these multiculturalists and their minions all I can say is: “Happy belated Columbus Day!”
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There would have been more… but for the love of God… OPRAH CAME TO DALLAS!!
We must discuss this for days. What did she get on her corn dog? What did she think of the fried entrees? Did she ride any rides? Did she understand the exchange rate of coupons to dollars?
For those of you who watch the show, good for you. For those of you who do the news, her show isn’t news.
Dearest Glenn-
I don’t feel cowed, I feel enlightened. Maybe you would like to share with the class how you can discover a land that already has an established people with a actual identity and culture? If that is possible, I would like your address so I can discover your house and move in.
-Liz, apt pupil
Yes, those “native Texans” are correct in that it never was a big deal in schools here. I grew up here in Dallas, long before the “gods and goddesses of PC” and the “multiculturalists and their minions” had changed much of anything. IIRC, we never had Columbus Day off. Instead, we got a day off in early October to go to the State Fair.
Maybe it’s just met, but to say that this practice (which seems to still be in effect today) was based upon pressure from the PC Police seems to be a bit of a stretch…
Yes. The poor play of the Cowboys and a visit by Oprah will trump the discovery of a Continent any day. But hey, if there were no Western Guilt we’d have no Oprah anyway. Its important that we apply todays’ standards to events that took place in 1492. I often lose sleep thinking about the Italians attacking and enslaving my Germanic tribes people during the 100’s.
From your link:
“Some cultures are better than others: a free society is better than slavery; reason is better than brute force as a way to deal with other men; productivity is better than stagnation. In fact, Western civilization stands for man at his best.”
Really, so the fact that this same Western civilization had slaves, bought slaves and shipped them over to this DISCOVERED land and still treated black people like second-class citizens until 1960s…. explain to me how that is a better??? Especially for an educated group of people….
I find people who write off entire cultures (ex: “Prior to 1492, what is now the United States was sparsely inhabited, unused, and undeveloped. The inhabitants were primarily hunter/gatherers, wandering across the land, living from hand to mouth and from day to day. There was virtually no change, no growth for thousands of years. With rare exception, life was nasty, brutish, and short: there was no wheel, no written language, no division of labor, little agriculture and scant permanent settlement; but there were endless, bloody wars.:)
usually are trying to justify a crime, or an action. Value is not determined by whether someone has a wheel, or lives hand to mouth or has wealth. YOU don’t get to set value on life, no matter how different from yours it may be.
We should just rename it “European Conqueror’s Day” so it will give the whiners something to really complain about.
It’s customary when attributing blame to provide something more than “As usual” to back it up. But you can’t, so “As usual” and a laughable link to a fantasy writer’s “Institute ” will have to do.
The vast majority pressure to conform to politically acceptable speech comes from the right in this country. Just watch, the war on “The War on Christmas” is coming. Happy Holidays!
Steve, war has been outlawed and relegated to a thing of the past by Obama. You know, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m pretty sure that the conquering of the American continent was really just a well-laid ambush by native tribes to separate the newcomers from their monies one slot-machine handle at a time. The ability to follow through on a plan through literally hundreds of intervening years is really a triumph.
When you have no argument, just say “As usual”, or make a joke about the Nobel. Got it.
SweetCharity must be unaware of Brown University up there in Yankee land where they voted to no longer observe Columbus Day and replaced it with Fall Weekend which coincides with the Columbus Day weekend. It had something to do with the nasty way that Columbus and his men treated the Indians. Using that logic, all holidays would be eliminated except for maybe New Years unless there was a New Years day masacre other than at a bowl game.
Have you seen what people do to chocolate bunnies and those spongy duck thingies on Easter? That holiday has got to go.
“It had something to do with the nasty way that Columbus and his men treated the Indians.”
We could name it Smallpox Day since that’s what killed 80% of the Native Americans.
What is Glenn talking about? Both dailies had plenty of coverage as to which libraries and city offices were closed. Fort Worth even celebrated by giving their employees an unpaid day off.
Interesting comments from people who live in a state that obliterated the culture that was here before Texicans.
I’m certain if there was no war or disease ever, …. we would all be French right now.
Political correctness is everywhere … if you’re paranoid enough to find it.
Stumped on why people, who to this today, still use the misnomer “Indian,” feel the need to pooh-pooh political correctness.
If PC is not one’s bag, how about concern for basic geographical and anthropological accuracy? I would like to submit a new holiday to be celebrated in lieu of Columbus Day: “Why We Are Not Indians Day.” Or “Really, Quit Calling Me That Day.”
@tinkerbell which is why you won’t see me armed at any fence trying to keep (native) Mexicans out. But, that is a more complicated issue that brings a lot more issues into play.
But, again, you won’t see me celebrating a Texas Independence Day either. I may not be able to change the events of the past, but I don’t have to honor them.