Thursday,
September 28, 2006
October:Italian
American Heritage Month, and The Usual Controversey
'Columbus Day'
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
Columbus Debate goes on, and
Listed AFTER
There
is NO Scholarship being shown by Anti Columbus voices in this Debate. They
use only Demagoguery, Propaganda, and Symbolism.
If
they feel such an injustice has been done, I suggest they set a good example,
and give all their worldly goods to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and return to
the land of their ancestors. How can they continue to take advantage of
Columbus Legacy, and rail against it.??
They
should Stop being Hypocrites and.........
Give back the Fruits of this Poisoned Tree!!!!!!!
And
using their Logic in taking away Columbus Day, and yet wanting to Continue
to Celebrate Washington (who owned Slaves) and Martin Luther King (who had
Mistresses) are we not condoning that behavior, and ALL those that followed
them in those practices.???
There
is no Search for Knowledge and Understanding, There is only an Agenda, and
Propaganda!!!!!!
Below
is a Two Sided, Two Statements each by the shrill Hannah Hayes who is
an ex teacher, and answered by a thoughtful Kelly Weist,
Attorney and adjunct professor of political
science.
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Canyon
Courier,
Gateway
to the
Thursday, September 28, 2006
It is important to look at historical roots and
see how the origins of the
While his legacy in the
Most significant, however, is a look at
When a population is already residing in a newly "discovered" land
that land can't really be discovered, Columbus Day commemorates fiction not
fact. Tradition when founded on righteous glory warms the heart. When it is
instituted upon the misery of others, we should turn our backs on it. A group
of activists did just that in the stree! ts of
What will it take to make the next step happen? Apathy can only lead to further
humiliation. Undoing an unjust holiday can provide a foundation for change that
honors the brilliant indigenous culture that resided in these lands long before
In revisionist historical style,
Columbus Day should be stripped from our calendar and replaced with a day to
honor a union of cultural diversity and the true roots of this count! ry.
The official website for the Columbus Day
protesters, "Transform Columbus Day," states that their coalition is
based on "mutual respect," and they describe themselves as ?people of
conscience.? Of course, free speech for those who disagree with their premise
is not contained in their principles.
This group insists that Christopher Columbus is the start of all oppression against ?indigenous peoples? and
claims a history and legacy for him that is contrary to established
scholarship.
How is this mutual respect ?? Their version of the
truth is forced on everyone, and the rest of us get no say in it at all. These
are not scholars, who look at all aspects of history and talk about the good
and the bad (which are often the same thing), but activists, who have an
agenda. Their agenda is to force American society to put them first. It?s all about prioritization, and
in this case, they envision a world where they are the arbiters of moral auth! ority. If you are not an
indigenous people, or a person of color, or a member of an oppressed people,
then you do not get to speak, you don?t get to have
any say in how our society and government are run, and you just need to bow
your head and accept it. It?s
the new cultural warfare.
The history of Columbus and all explorers has been one of a clash of cultures.
Cultures that existed in lands that were subsequently discovered by other, more
sophisticated cultures were often impacted adversely by disease, war and
famine; the funny thing is that it went both ways. Disease, war and famine
visited the "discovering" cultures as well, but the activists don't
want to acknowledge that. Instead, they want to rewrite history in such a way
to as to force political correctness on all of us.
The only things we're allowed to talk about under their "newspeak" is
how awful Columbus was, how he initiated the greatest genocide in history, and
how our American culture today is no ! different.
Genocide takes intent. You have to really want to obliterate a group of people,
erase them from the face of the Earth. Think of the Holocaust, or the current
jihad by Islamofascists. So even if the charges they
level against
The Columbus Day activists take the tactics of violence to oppose a harmless
little parade in
Getting your message out is one thing; physically attacking the others who have
a different message and demanding that society only do what you tell it to is outrageous. No matter what you think your moral authority
is.
There are 11 federal holidays. Three honor four
men: Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and
Christopher Columbus. If the focus of Columbus Day is a celebration of Italian
culture and heritage, where are the days for Armenians, Indonesians, or
Rastafarians? Other cultures have observances, but they are neither federal
holidays nor are they named after suspect heroes.
Howard Zinn writes, ?To
emphasize the heroism of
Who judges cultural sophistication? Are they the ones who kill and destroy or
the injured parties?
The
The truth of this invasion is known. It is up to us to respond. Abolishing
Columbus Day isn't about warfare; it's about making peace with our past.
A former educator, Hannah Hayes is a wife, mother and third-generation
immigrant. She runs a national business in the natural products industry and is
a co-founder of Evergreen Peace.
Let's
address Hannah's citation of Howard Zinn's "A
People's Guide to the
Attorney and political activist Kelly Weist has
served on the board of directors of the
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