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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Oberlin Council gets rid of Columbus Day
2017-08-23
[CHRONICLET] With enthusiasm, the Oberlin City Council changed the second Monday in October from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.

The unanimous vote for the resolution was anticipated, though it was not without opposition. Council voted about 8:15 p.m. Monday after nearly an hour of public comment from people for and against replacing the federally recognized holiday.

"I am in support, and believe it’s the right thing to do," Councilwoman Sharon Pearson said. Councilwoman Linda Slocum said she learned a lot about Christopher Columbus during the research of the resolution and came to the same conclusion. "Columbus has enjoyed 500 years of praise, and it’s now time to shift the spotlight," Slocum said.
Columbus badgered the Queen of Spain into hocking her jewels so he and his crews could set off for the horizon and discover a new world.
Council had worked for months to put together a resolution with input from the Indigenous Peoples Day Committee, a group of residents who have pushed to do away with Columbus Day.
No Iroquois or Shoshone or Pequod ever seems to have gotten into a canoe and sailed east to discover Europe.
Morning Dove Jean Simon spoke on behalf of the committee and thanked Council for its efforts.
That's probably why there aren't any teepees in Düsseldorf.
They do love cowboys and Indians over there, though, and square dancing in full regalia. It's all the fault of author Karl May and his wild west novels.
"We cannot remain invisible anymore," Simon said. "When the original people of the land speak up and speak out, it’s with great thought, and we’ve asked you to listen, and you’ve done that," Simon said. "The time for our healing is now. To quote an old Chinese proverb, ’Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.’ "
Posted by:Fred

#13  I'm pretty sure syphilis or some other nasty STD originated in the Caribbean and was brought back to Europe via Columbus. That has to count for something.

Having said that the Italian-Americans should have made Columbus day a drinking holiday (like St Patricks and Cinco De Mayo) and nobody would think of screwing with it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-08-23 16:01  

#12   I'm waiting for the calls to ban Mexican food, invented by the Aztecs, originally made with genuine Mexicans!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-08-23 14:09  

#11  Columbus and the "Columbian Exchange" basically created the modern world -- the Homogenocene. If any Burgers have the time, I highly recommend 1491 and 1493 by Charles C. Mann.
Posted by: JHH   2017-08-23 13:51  

#10  Probably from "Columbus" to Leningrad or Stalingrad.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-23 11:27  

#9  BTW, are they going to request the state to change its capital city's name?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-23 10:06  

#8  Been politically down hill ever since Dave Brubeck's "Jazz at Oberlin" recording in 1953.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink   2017-08-23 10:00  

#7  Oberlin has been radical left for as long as I can remember.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-23 08:31  

#6  Anyone asked Italian-Americans about this?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-23 08:29  

#5  Next item to do is change the name of the 'town' to Berkeley East.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink   2017-08-23 08:24  

#4  How many generations do people have to be in one place to be 'natives'? If you buy the 'out of Africa' line, then no human is native to the Americas. About the only pre-Indo-Europeans left in the Eurasian land mass in the west are probably the Basques. Goes back to the original question, how many generations? Oh, and then do those migrating from Central and South America get to be treated as non-natives as well? That'll be a fun exercise of interest groups vs interest groups.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-23 07:44  

#3  >original people of the land
Nope they nicked it off the Aztecs
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-08-23 05:46  

#2  Pocahontis is my state's Senator!
Posted by: Raj   2017-08-23 02:09  

#1  That should get the Dims a lot of dead Indian votes. Now the leftists need to get "Bemossed", "Sitting Bull", "Pocahontis" registered.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196   2017-08-23 00:38  

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