Council members of America's 40th largest city ranking the town 23rd in overall population and boasting annual salaries ranging up to $119,976.48, Seattle, have voted to bid good-bye to Chris Columbus in favor of extending an enthusiastic hello to €indigenous people,€ namely, groups designated as entitled to certain inalienable rights and privileges by virtue of a distinctive cultural history, vulnerability, exploitation, colonial oppression - and political correctness.
Apparently, the €City of Goodwill€ regards Italian-born Christophoro Columbo and Italian-Americans in general as much less deserving of continued recognition and respect than indigineous peoples mainly because Columbus has been dead for over five hundred years, his forebears seem pretty tolerant of gross insult, and because Native Americans and their associates have nothing better to do than bitch and agitate.
Last Monday, Seattle's city fathers and mothers voted unanimously to recognize €Indigenous Peoples' Day€ effective October 13th, 2014, not coincidentally the date normally celebrated as Columbus Day - almost as if Seattle were intending to rub rough garlic into the gaping wound they had already inflicted upon the city's 25,000 Italian-Americans and any other offended non-indigeneous residents.
Columbus Day has been observed as a federal holiday since 1937 although it's neither an official Seattle holiday nor a Washington State holiday but has long been celebrated as cause for parades and similar festivities in recognition of the Italian world explorer's contribution to world history by €discovering€ the Americas in 1492.
The facts that Columbus failed in his mission to reach the East Indies and gain a spice trade foothold for his Spanish sponsors as well as genocidal accusations against him, combined with an unmistakable fear that corruptive Catholicism sailed with him to the supposedly pristine New World remain the principal protest factors to this day.
As the Seattle Times pointed out, €There already is a federal day to commemorate Native Americans. Signed into law by President George W. Bush, it's called Native American Heritage Day and it falls on the day after Thanksgiving.€ In a rare display of P.C. resistance, a political action committee is hoping to establish an Italian-American heritage day in Seattle and re-assign Indigenous Peoples' Day to a more appropriate date.
One protestor to the madness in Seattle optimistically announced, €We say today, €Basta!' We say, €Enough.' We say, €No more discrimination.' Not now and not here.€' (http://tinyurl.com/nlzec6s)
Fat chance of that since the minority-dominated, vastly-overpaid Seattle City Council knows exactly how their constituency votes and whom they will support when things come down to backing the rights of noisy agitators over long-established ethnic tradition over political correctness.
I'm guessing people like Communist community organizer C©sar Estrada Chvez and the descendents of Montezuma should be honored over the man who €discovered€ America and is venerated for that distinction, Christopher Columbus.
Apparently, the €City of Goodwill€ regards Italian-born Christophoro Columbo and Italian-Americans in general as much less deserving of continued recognition and respect than indigineous peoples mainly because Columbus has been dead for over five hundred years, his forebears seem pretty tolerant of gross insult, and because Native Americans and their associates have nothing better to do than bitch and agitate.
Last Monday, Seattle's city fathers and mothers voted unanimously to recognize €Indigenous Peoples' Day€ effective October 13th, 2014, not coincidentally the date normally celebrated as Columbus Day - almost as if Seattle were intending to rub rough garlic into the gaping wound they had already inflicted upon the city's 25,000 Italian-Americans and any other offended non-indigeneous residents.
Columbus Day has been observed as a federal holiday since 1937 although it's neither an official Seattle holiday nor a Washington State holiday but has long been celebrated as cause for parades and similar festivities in recognition of the Italian world explorer's contribution to world history by €discovering€ the Americas in 1492.
The facts that Columbus failed in his mission to reach the East Indies and gain a spice trade foothold for his Spanish sponsors as well as genocidal accusations against him, combined with an unmistakable fear that corruptive Catholicism sailed with him to the supposedly pristine New World remain the principal protest factors to this day.
As the Seattle Times pointed out, €There already is a federal day to commemorate Native Americans. Signed into law by President George W. Bush, it's called Native American Heritage Day and it falls on the day after Thanksgiving.€ In a rare display of P.C. resistance, a political action committee is hoping to establish an Italian-American heritage day in Seattle and re-assign Indigenous Peoples' Day to a more appropriate date.
One protestor to the madness in Seattle optimistically announced, €We say today, €Basta!' We say, €Enough.' We say, €No more discrimination.' Not now and not here.€' (http://tinyurl.com/nlzec6s)
Fat chance of that since the minority-dominated, vastly-overpaid Seattle City Council knows exactly how their constituency votes and whom they will support when things come down to backing the rights of noisy agitators over long-established ethnic tradition over political correctness.
I'm guessing people like Communist community organizer C©sar Estrada Chvez and the descendents of Montezuma should be honored over the man who €discovered€ America and is venerated for that distinction, Christopher Columbus.
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