Because we shouldn't be celebrating mass murder, slavery, and sex trafficking. It's like celebrating "Hitler Day", and saying that's it fine, as long as we teach children to be holocaust deniers. It's broken, we should fix it.
I must say that I'm glad you lefties are able to educate the rest of the folks in this country
that we are indeed the most horrific nation ever founded in the history of mankind.
Presidents day is a celebration of George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays; Although Washington owned slaves, Lincoln freed them. Other than that, I know of no great scandal surrounding them. Both of them did great things in the name of freedom. I'm not really seeing the "implication" here. If you mean, simply that they ruled the land after the Native Americans were persecuted, that could be said about every non-Native American living in America. The sins of the fathers do not weigh on the son; they should be judged on their actions within the scenario they were born in, and they both used their lives for good. (If I'm missing some big scandal surrounding the two, please tell me. I'm not seeing it.)Do we, by implication, do just that with President's Day? What about Independence Day?
Presidents day is a celebration of George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays; Although Washington owned slaves, Lincoln freed them. Other than that, I know of no great scandal surrounding them. Both of them did great things in the name of freedom. I'm not really seeing the "implication" here. If you mean, simply that they ruled the land after the Native Americans were persecuted, that could be said about every non-Native American living in America. The sins of the fathers do not weigh on the son; they should be judged on their actions within the scenario they were born in, and they both used their lives for good. (If I'm missing some big scandal surrounding the two, please tell me. I'm not seeing it.)
Independence Day is the Nation's birthday. The nation is inanimate, and incapable of doing evil. Again, I'm not really seeing the "implication".
How about: "America is worse than Nazi Germany Day"? We could burn Tea Party Patriots at the stake?The point is that a lot of people don't feel right honoring a person like that with a national holiday.
Maybe they should rename it Native American Day...
I think we should probably get rid of the holiday just as soon as we give the natives their continent back. Until then, it's kind of a hollow gesture.
How about: "America is worse than Nazi Germany Day"? We could burn Tea Party Patriots at the stake?
What is not necessarily so? That they would have evolved or their people revolted? Well of course that is not what happened, so it is conjecture....
Sorry..Italian......
Not entirely likely. We have been disillusioned with Thomas Jefferson for about 60 years now, and about 30-40 for the public. Jefferson's public icon image is still going strong, regardless.
That being said, I have no problems with creating a national holiday to celebrate Native American culture. The truth of the matter is, MLK Day doesn't somehow intellectually cause a problem for Americans that also celebrate the 4th of July. This is despite the implication that most of those individuals did not conceptualize their message of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for African Americans. The public incorporates both holidays without contradiction, either consciously or out of ignorance. Regardless of that, it builds nationalism, and I am all for limited myth making in the pursuit of national unity.
Agreed. I wouldn't be at all opposed to the idea of a separate federal holiday centered around Native Americans. I'm actually kind of surprised that we don't have one already.
I was simply saying that I opposed Juanita's idea of replacing Columbus Day entirely with what would essentially be a holiday centered around "White Guilt." Noting productive could come out of such a move.
That's not what I was talking about. Furthermore, I don't know about you, but my experience with Zip drives was bloody horrible. I am glad it was a dead technology.
I don't know what that is, but in any event, no, I would like our nation to stop celebrating genocide.
I think we should probably get rid of the holiday just as soon as we give the natives their continent back. Until then, it's kind of a hollow gesture.
Redskins' Day, I think it was.
Actually I think I had it right. I know there was a push to change the name nationally but it didn't take.
Indigenous People's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abolish Columbus Day, replace it with Bartolomé Day?
I agree. I wasn't really trying to defend President's day, I just didn't see them as being as brutal as Columbus. Personally, I don't think there should be any of these federal holidays. I'd really like to see things like the seasonal breaks, instituted as federal holidays. Not a celebration of men, but of time itself.The former started long before the celebration of Lincoln. It is directly connected to the same holiday of purely celebrating Washington. Furthermore, you're excusing Washington for doing matters in the name of freedom, when he clearly acted against freedom in other ways (including starting the trend of stomping out the Natives). Now, on top of that, Columbus acted in the name of exploration. We could excuse his actions with the same rationale, couldn't we (as we have)?
The nation's birth was also at the same time the day that they signed a document that: (1) had no intentions of applying to African Americans and (2) was explicitly prohibited from implicating slavery was reprehensible, so as to not scandalize the slave economies of some of the colonies.
From my angle you're applying your logic very selectively.
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