Any schools commemorating Columbus Day?

[Anonymous]

Polish Americans were discriminated against. Where is their holiday? Every one has a grievance about something that happened three generations ago. If you care about discrimination and racism, spend your time and energy fighting against today’s discrimination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were Italian Americans discriminated against? Yes. Were they able to eventually blend in and be the boring, generic American version of whiteness? Yes. Says this second gen whose family refused to let them learn Italian in order to be more ‘American’ and blend in. I could. And we did. Columbus is not the Italian hill to die on for this. Move along.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Polish Americans were discriminated against. Where is their holiday? Every one has a grievance about something that happened three generations ago. If you care about discrimination and racism, spend your time and energy fighting against today’s discrimination.

You mean Pulaski Day?

[Anonymous]

He wasn’t even Italian so the “holiday” seems dumb now.

-Italian American

[Anonymous]

He was a Spanish Jew.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2049ezpko.amp

Ole!

[Anonymous]

Surely you find a better hero of Italian culture to celebrate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was a Spanish Jew.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2049ezpko.amp

Ole!

... According to a bunch of Spanish people who sampled DNA found in Spanish-conected territories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are here in DC enjoying the benefits of living in America.

If America was never colonized, you would be living in your ancestral home countries speaking a different language.

Not me. My ancestral home was genocided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would “celebrating” it look like? Go for a drive, get lost, re-name people and places, kill everyone and steal the land?

It’s hard to fit that into a single day.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was a Spanish Jew.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2049ezpko.amp

Ole!

... According to a bunch of Spanish people who sampled DNA found in Spanish-conected territories.

A Spanish guy sailing in Spanish ships on an expedition funded by Spanish monarchs.

Kinda funny actually that Italian Americans tried to take “credit” for the “discovery”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbus isn’t exactly someone to celebrate. He didn’t “find” anything that didn’t already exist.

My school will be talking about Indigenous Peoples day instead

The irony here is that Columbus Day was first celebrated to combat anti-Catholic sentiment and oppression in the United States.

Columbus was no saint, and no he was not the first to set foot in the "New World". And, yes, we should honor those native to this land too, but let's not ignore that the intent of Columbus day was to include a previously marginalized population (i.e. Catholics) and combat the prejudice and discrimination that they faced. You don't need to celebrate the man, but his accomplishments and what they represent set off the chain of events that led to the society we live in today, for better or worse.

Weird revisionist history

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would “celebrating” it look like? Go for a drive, get lost, re-name people and places, kill everyone and steal the land?

It’s hard to fit that into a single day.

Bwahahahahaha!

Does no one on this thread have a sense of humor?? This is hilarious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would “celebrating” it look like? Go for a drive, get lost, re-name people and places, kill everyone and steal the land?

It’s hard to fit that into a single day.

Good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would “celebrating” it look like? Go for a drive, get lost, re-name people and places, kill everyone and steal the land?

It’s hard to fit that into a single day.

It would be especially hard to fit the sense of "you might not make it back home" into the celebration.

Of all the things that happened, the fact that there was a bare minimum of courage (stupidity? greed?) required is the one I'm willing to somewhat admire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polish Americans were discriminated against. Where is their holiday? Every one has a grievance about something that happened three generations ago. If you care about discrimination and racism, spend your time and energy fighting against today’s discrimination.

You mean Pulaski Day?

Casimir Pulaki Day is not a Federal Holiday, I know it is celebrated in Illinois and a few other cities outside of Illinois. I would guess most Americans have no clue who he is and have never celebrated his “day.”

Italian American’s don’t need a specific federal holiday, I am trying to think of another Federal Holiday that is devoted to a specific nationality, there are none. Irish American’s struggled when they came to the US but there is not a Federal Holiday celebrating them. Honestly, most every ethnicity that came to the US has can show that they were discriminated against, it wasn’t just the Italians. If anything, the Chinese and Japanese immigrants have faced the most discrimination in the US historically and there is not a day for either group. We imprisoned Japanese Americans on the West Coast during WWII.