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Crow on the wing.
I always hate Columbus Day. There’s always some guy (usually an older white male) that wants to defend Columbus Day, even in the face of the fact that Columbus ushered in the damn near annihilation of the Indigenous populations here in the Americas.
A guy on a friend’s FB page said it was to celebrate all the “wonderful” things Western Civilization brought to the Americas. Yeah, because written language totally trumps the mass genocide, slavery, land and cultural theft, continued exploitation, racism, the desecration of many sacred sites, etc. This guy doubled down and had the balls to say it brought better status for women. I damn near choked on my coffee reading that one. ::shakes her head:: THIS is why it is important to teach FACTUAL history, and not the white-washed bullshit that so many believe. It just props up the whole White Is Better mindset, the mythical White Savior that swoops in and “saves” the Indigenous populations. ::gags::
Seriously, you want to understand just how bad the Whites were to the Indigenous populations here, read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Browns. That book lays it all out in the open. It is not an easy book to read. I had to put it down a number of times because the horrors that were visited on Indigenous populations time and time again was just too much to take in at once.
I wish we would just toss out Columbus Day and make it Indigenous Peoples Day. I wish we would stop teaching the Columbus Myth and teach a history that is based on FACT.
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