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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what would you replace them with and how would you handle telling Italian Americans that their heroes and their people no longer matter?[/quote]

But Columbus isn't a hero to Italian-Americans, and neither is Braxton Bragg to Southerners.  Here's an idea, how about abstract monumets instead?[/quote]

https://www.columbuscitizensfd.org/about-us/welcome.html

They might disagree.  [/quote]

600 people, wow, such a groundswell.

Garibaldi is an Italian hero.  Michaelangelo, Dante, Andrea Pirlo, Pavarotti,... those are Italian heroes.  Not a second rate guy from Genoa who worked for Spain before Italian unification.  Columbus was only chosen because of his tenuous link to America.  For that matter Amerigo Vespucci would have been a better choice.  Nowadays there are a lot of actual Italian-Americans that would be a better symbol.[/quote]

Thats the organization that runs the columbus day parade.  Notice it is almost exclusively... Italian.

The claim is that Columbus isn't a hero to Italian Americans.[/quote]

They celebrate Italian pride not Columbus pride.  The person and the date doesn't matter.  It could be a DeNiro Day parade and have the exact same makeup and activities.  There's nothing inherently about Christopher Columbus that makes it Italian.  I mean it's not like there's anything Italian about the Spanish exploration of the new world.[/quote]

Can't we get some better trolls around here? This is just pathetic.[/quote]

Lol, no defense for that huh?  Are they celebrating the golden age of the Spanish Empire?  Everything Columbus did he did for Spain not Italy (which wasnt even a concept at the time).   Gisotey is important.[/quote]

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