Tomorrow, depending on your proclivities, you might celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day. If the latter, then presumably you view the arrival of people of European descent here in the Americas as an unmitigated disaster.
If you hold such a view, the only logically consistent, moral thing for you to do is to move back to the land of your forefathers, be that land in Europe, Asia, or Africa. Staying here is perpetuating what you believe is an atrocity, continuing to rub salt in the wound.
You may choose to view our nation as an embarrassment, I do not. Neither do the hundreds of thousands who illegally cross our border every year in search of a better life.
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day is the equivalent of celebrating the Confederate States of America. In each case you are celebrating the losing side in a battle for dominance.
I intend to continue to honor Christopher Columbus, a brave and intrepid explorer and navigator. In his own way, he was as gutsy as our astronauts, and he did it without the benefit of much science.
