Columbus was bad, but Columbus Day was founded to stop Confederate white supremacists from lynching Italian Americans

The NYC Department of Education now celebrates "Columbus Day" as Italian Heritage Day / Indigenous Peoples Day. The American national holiday is always called "Columbus Day". It will take an act of Congress to change it. The same is true in New York State.

Columbus Day NYC 2022

It's a busy long weekend in New York. The big celebrations this year are:

Friday, October 7, 2022 New York Festival New York Philharmonic reopening of David Geffen Hall Saturday, October 8, 2022 Panamanian Parade Comic-Con Sunday, October 9, 2022 Monday, October 10, 2022 Saturday, October 15, 2022 Columbus Day

American Celebration was founded to stop the lynching of Italian Americans by white supremacist Confederate Southerners.

After the American Civil War (1860-1865), Italians who emigrated to the United States came from southern Italy. It's only 100 miles from Africa, so the Italians were comfortable with the mix. They took work that was once done by the African Diaspora, lived and married in African communities. They became targets by association.

White supremacists put the English diaspora against everyone The systemic racism of the time began to turn against Italian Americans. The racism of the time was so violent that today it is impossible for us to fully understand it. Lynchings, murders, rapes, mutilations, burnings - you can't deal with inhumanity - even against women and children for no reason. People don't want to talk about it, but it's our American story. The situation begs the question: If it was so bad for Italian Americans, what was it for African Americans and Native Americans? It was much worse and it is the root cause of division in our country today.

The Italian migrants did not have the form of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Racism (WASP) that still demonizes us. From this point of view, if you are not an English WASP, you are a soulless black devil worshiper who can be abused worse than animals.

It's English against everyone else, including Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Spanish and French. You thought you would be accepted in America because you are European? Maybe, but you don't understand the English colonial mindset where the English were better than everyone else with the divine right to take what they want. You may see yourself as a white European, but the English diaspora still views you as a soulless black devil worshipper. This is pure nonsense, but English racism is the "mother" of American racism.

Systemic racism is a bad national strategy. Look what it did for Britain. Without the wealth provided by human slavery, Britain became the Great Bootlicker. [Don't hurt me, I'm half British.]

There was an international incident in which the United States even paid reparations to Italy for the lynching of Italian Americans. This is how "Columbus Day" began. At the time, people of color had no voice in American society, and the scholarship on evil of Christopher Columbus himself was not common knowledge. We didn't know.

Columbus unleashed a terrible genocide and the Atlantic slave trade

Most Latin Americans reject Columbus because he unleashed a multidimensional indigenous genocide that began with an epidemic with a 95% death rate. The death rate from COVID is between 1 and 3%, so think about it and think about it in just a few years. Can you imagine the shock of being the 1 in 20 who survived?

The first thing the Spaniards did was put the indigenous peoples to death in forced labor camps. We are taught that the indigenous people simply gave up and died, but in reality they were worked to death in forced labor camps.

When there were no more indigenous workers, the Europeans began to enslave the Africans and put them to death too.

Christopher Columbus was a bad man

Turns out Christopher Columbus was a bad man himself. His own Spanish sponsors called him back to Spain, imprisoned him and stripped him of his power.

He had brought such wealth to Spain that they eventually let him go, but never let him regain power. It was his own sponsors.

Even the "discovery" was based on a lie

Columbus Day commemorates the day around October 12, 1492 when Christopher Columbus' expedition sighted land in what is now the Bahamas and the Americas.

But even that pivotal moment was based on a lie. A lookout spotted the land first. But to claim a reward, Columbus lied and said he saw land first, but didn't report it. True to form, he took what wasn't his.

This is typical of the colonial period. Colonial triumphs were based on lies and betrayals.

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