In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
And then the decimation of the true American people began.
Personally, I don't know what we are supposed to be celebrating on this day, so I'll just refrain from celebration. This day is just like any other for me because I just can't see myself being merry about the rape and pillaging that took place after Columbus got lost. I mean, I can see where some people are happy about this discovery (more land, wealth, proving the earth is actually round, leading to the birth of a superpower, etc.), but I cannot, honestly, say that it outweighs all the other things that happened (Transatlantic Slave Trade, genocide, continued lies to the people who really "discovered" this land and settled it well before Columbus took his first breath).
How can we say that we're celebrating the "discovery" of America when the Native Americans were already here, settled, living? How delightfully eurocentric of us...
When I'm President of the United States, I'm going to make the government make annual payments to every Native American person on Columbus Day. National Reparations Day, if you will.
/rant
