We are a long way from from my favorite month, October, in the calendar year.
So image my surprise at seeing ‘Columbus Day” trending on X.com.
My surprise diminished considerably when I discovered that President Donald Trump recently declared on social media that he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes,” blaming Democrats for what he describes as efforts to erase the holiday and undermine Christopher Columbus’s legacy, particularly for Italian Americans.
Columbus Day remains largely a celebrated national holiday, but the president suggested he has plans to boost it and its namesake even more amid mainly progressive complaints about the mistreatment of indigenous tribes after Christopher Columbus connected Europeans to the Americas.“I’m bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes,” Trump wrote in a fiery post on Truth Social. “The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much.“They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but ‘WOKE,’ or even worse, nothing at all! Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback,” Trump wrote.“I am hereby reinstating Columbus Day under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!”
It must be noted Columbus Day has never been removed as a federal holiday. It continues to be observed on the second Monday in October, as established by federal law.
What Trump means is that the federal focus will be on the Italian explorer’s successful expedition, rather than the ‘Indigenous People”, the anti-Western-civilization tribute to paganism that it has morphed into under the progressive guise of tolerance.
The hate directed at white males Americans revere has heroes has been such that statues of Christopher Columbus are targets for vandalism on that day.
During the 2020 racial justice protests following George Floyd’s death, at least seven Christopher Columbus statues were destroyed across the nation. Demonstrators targeted these monuments as symbols associated with colonization and the mistreatment of indigenous peoples. In response, officials in at least 27 additional cities ordered the removal of Columbus statues that year to prevent potential vandalism.In 2021, Biden became the first president to issue an official proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples Day, also on the second Monday of October to “honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations.”Maine, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington, D.C., have renamed the day Indigenous Peoples Day in 2019. Several states still have an official public holiday exclusively called Columbus Day and others like Nebraska or Pennsylvania celebrate both.Trump regularly praised the 15th century Italian explorer in his Columbus Day proclamations during his first administration, while notably not mentioning Indigenous peoples.
America-loving Americans are thrilled with this development.
Lat year, one of my posts stressed the importance of Columbus’ efforts for the greater welfare of humanity. The Americas provided Europe, Asia, and Africa with a rich variety of new nutrient-dense food items: Maize, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco, and cacao (chocolate).
Columbus’ voyages improved navigation techniques and map-making, and pushed the boundaries of what was known about the world. And there were many positive benefits to humanity as well, which go unmentioned in the toxic, revised histories being offered today.
Some heroic teachers endeavored to commemorate the true meaning of Columbus Day, despite the progressive hostility toward it.
I am happy to see the restoration of the true meaning of Columbus Day, It will me interesting to se how many more American “norms” Trump will restore over the course of his second term.
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