I know.............being a teacher we get "Colombus Day" off but....just to raise awareness of the consequences of Colombus' activities especially to AmerIndians.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...opher-Columbus
It has been suggested that the holiday be changed to celebrate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolo...9_de_las_Casas
Now yes, there is the argument that Bartolome's advocacy of using Africans as slaves instead of AmerIndians as slaves gives one pause, but then also, he soon renounced that position, but, it, apparently, cannot be denied that his suggestion was the "primum mobile".
Will the U.S. ever change the holiday? UMMMMM NO!!!
The BOTH parties of the .gov want to give people four day holidays .............
Kind of like bread and circus!
So they can get re-elected! lol
woodsmoke
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...opher-Columbus
It has been suggested that the holiday be changed to celebrate:
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (Seville, c. 1484[1] – Madrid, 18 July 1566), was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.
He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians".
His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
Arriving as one of the first European settlers in the Americas, he participated in, and was eventually compelled to oppose the atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.
A LOT OF DOTS.............................
Bartolomé de las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples,
He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians".
His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
Arriving as one of the first European settlers in the Americas, he participated in, and was eventually compelled to oppose the atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.
A LOT OF DOTS.............................
Bartolomé de las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples,
Now yes, there is the argument that Bartolome's advocacy of using Africans as slaves instead of AmerIndians as slaves gives one pause, but then also, he soon renounced that position, but, it, apparently, cannot be denied that his suggestion was the "primum mobile".
Will the U.S. ever change the holiday? UMMMMM NO!!!
The BOTH parties of the .gov want to give people four day holidays .............
Kind of like bread and circus!
So they can get re-elected! lol
woodsmoke