To some of you, today is Columbus Day. To those of us who chose not to celebrate an individual who:
A) Did not discover a land that was already inhabited by civilized groups of people and was already visited by other European people.
B) Was in charge of the genocide (both intentional by murder and "unintentional" by disease) of millions of Taino "Indians".
C) Just in general a bad example of a decent human being.
Instead celebrate a day of the survival and revitalization of Indigenous people in the face of years of oppression and discrimination.
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