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NYC Cancels “Racist” Holiday

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NYC Cancels “Racist” Holiday

The banning of New York City’s long-standing Columbus Day parades and celebrations is just the latest example of the left’s cancel culture.

Despite having a Governor and a Mayor both of Italian descent, that didn’t stop the “social justice warriors” of the left from destroying another NYC tradition.

Earlier in May, New York City public schools abolished Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. But really, that is a move that should be offensive not just to “Italian Americans” but to all “Americans.”

Banning Columbus is not about addressing the explorer’s wrongs, which have been no secret to any educated person for at least 50 years. It’s undeniable that his “discovery” of America led to cruel subjugation of Native Americans. But it also opened the door to a New World that people around the globe came to envy for its humanistic culture, material abundance, and however-imperfect embrace of individual liberty. If Columbus “discovered” America, canceling him is about canceling America.

What’s more, Columbus committed his crimes against humanity over five centuries ago, when conquering, slaughter and slavery were the way of much of the world. And yet, NYC has celebrated criminals who committed their heinous deeds in much more recent memory.

Take, for example, Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was invited in 2017 to lead the Puerto Rican Day Parade — just 25 years after helming the terrorist organization FALN, which launched more than 100 bombings on US soil.

Not even Italian-American Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Italian-American Mayor Bill de Blasio, who are supposed to be in charge of city public schools, could save poor Columbus from cancellation.

De Blasio later criticized the move as “arbitrary” and claimed that neither he nor schools chancellor Meisha Ross Porter was consulted on it.

Cuomo, too, threw up his hands, “They didn’t tell me!” the embattled governor exclaimed.

Writing for the NY Post,  opinion columnist Steve Cuozzo said, “the true goal of the campaign to remove Columbus monuments and other tainted national heroes is to repudiate the legitimacy of the United States of America itself.”

Cuozzo goes on to say that “New York’s economy will survive the pandemic. Real estate and Broadway will rebound. But right now, I can’t get over the feeling that the city I love regards me and millions of others who still believe in America as chopped liver. New York City is so bent to the prevailing progressive winds that reversing the tide seems hopeless.”

What do you think of the trend of “canceling” Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day? Please reply using the comments below!

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  1. Wow. They’ll be canceling Thanksgiving & Christmas next. What a bunch of miserable, clueless people. I wonder what their closets are hiding!

  2. I think we should cancel all the months with “R” in them because they discriminate against certain types of seafood.

  3. How can “discovering America be “racist”. If Columbus had not discovered our land, none of us would be here,
    (black, white, Asian, Polish, Italian, Irish, Hispanic, etc, etc). For Thanksgiving, maybe they can find a way of saying the pilgrims enslaved the native tribes who helped them learn to farm and survive. Maybe they can cancel Christmas by saying Jesus was never born or died on the cross. For a Holiday like Columbus Day, I can’t believe two powerful New Yorkers of Italian descent are bowing to this. Why not have the Holiday. If you don’t want to celebrate it, fine then don’t. Stop adding to those who are pushing “Cancel Culture”.

  4. This is what happens when you refuse to peacefully, ( note this word, my communist masters in congress), challenge rigged elections, you become slaves of those who fixed the outcomes for Marxism ideology. Everything the democrats do is to destroy our republic, and enslave our children using Marxist ideology against our will. We have rigged elections the government no longer is by the people or for the people. The communist are our masters now, not elected leaders. They rule by threats, punishing opponents, rigged elections, weaponized federal agencies, and judges who work by reading the communist manifesto instead of the constitution. The dream of our illegal Congressional majority masters change the constitution to force Global communism upon a once free people.

  5. What was once a great country has now become a disgrace by bowing to groups like BLM and Antifa who now dictate to this administration instead of telling them this is our history you don’t like get the hell out

  6. Two wrongs do not a right make. First, Columbus did not discover America. He discovered Cuba and some Mediterranean islands. America’s Van Prussis (SP) discovered America.
    Now, they cancel Columbus day, are 5hey cance l ling Memorial day, 4th of July, Labor Day, ho a about Flag Day? This cancel culture needs to stop.

  7. Two wrongs do not a right make. First, Columbus did not discover America. He discovered Cuba and some Mediterranean islands. America’s Van Prussis (SP) discovered America.
    Now, they cancel Columbus day, are they canceling Memorial day, 4th of July, Labor Day, how about Flag Day? This cancel culture needs to stop.

  8. Cancel all they want will not stop ever one all the money they lose some where else will get the money

  9. Anti-American Communist Traitors to America , AKA THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY , are trying to destroy America from within , they are All Together Guiltily Of TREASON And Be BANISHED FROM AMERICA FOREVER .

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