{"id":37955,"date":"2019-10-14T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37955"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:00:39","slug":"whose-day-is-it-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/whose-day-is-it-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Day Is It, Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In school we learned that history was the history of white colonialism, and that in 1492, Columbus discovered America.  We were also taught that the indigenous people were called Indians, because they did not have the decency to be living in India, where Columbus thought he was at the time.  Worse yet, they attacked us, because they were too impatient to wait for us to complete the genocide before civilizing them.  Ever since, we have celebrated Columbus Day on this date (or a close Monday), but whose day is it, really?<\/font><\/p>\n

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On Monday [today<\/em>] in the nation’s capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it<\/a> with Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other places across the United States have also made the switch in a growing movement to end the celebration of the Italian explorer in favor of honoring Indigenous communities and their resiliency in the face of violence by European explorers like Christopher Columbus<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Baley Champagne is responsible for that change in her home state of Louisiana. The tribal citizen of the United Houma Nation<\/a> petitioned the governor, John Bel Edwards, to change the day. He did, along with several other states this year. <\/p>\n

“It’s become a trend,” Champagne said. “It’s about celebrating people instead of thinking about somebody who actually caused genocide on a population or tried to cause the genocide of an entire population. By bringing Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re bringing awareness that we’re not going to allow someone like that to be glorified into a hero, because of the hurt that he caused to Indigenous people of America<\/strong>.”…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I could not agree more.  I fully support the switch to Indigenous People’s Day.  For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In school we learned that history was the history of white colonialism, and that in 1492, Columbus discovered America.  We were also taught that the indigenous people were called Indians, because they did not have the decency to be living in India, where Columbus thought he was at the time.  Worse yet, they attacked us, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-politics","category-145-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}