Years ago, I was teaching Special Ed students at a school run by lesbian nuns. I got along great with the nuns, but the resident priest didn't like me. One friday he came into my classroom and told my students "Monday school is closed to celebrate Columbus Day, and we celebrate Columbus because he brought christianity to the new world"
I interrupted to say "in addition to slavery, genocide and venereal disease" The priest never came to my classroom, or spoke to me again, and for the past twenty years, I have celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday in October. Stephen Maglott
it goes to show that the victors write HIStory, I've always wondered how do you discover a land with people already on it? Then proceed to wipe both their culture and presence from that land, not mentioning the fact that there were explorers that predate Columbo by thousands of years from other countries that visited the Americas.
Years ago, I was teaching Special Ed students at a school run by lesbian nuns. I got along great with the nuns, but the resident priest didn't like me. One friday he came into my classroom and told my students "Monday school is closed to celebrate Columbus Day, and we celebrate Columbus because he brought christianity to the new world"
ReplyDeleteI interrupted to say "in addition to slavery, genocide and venereal disease" The priest never came to my classroom, or spoke to me again, and for the past twenty years, I have celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday in October.
Stephen Maglott
it goes to show that the victors write HIStory, I've always wondered how do you discover a land with people already on it? Then proceed to wipe both their culture and presence from that land, not mentioning the fact that there were explorers that predate Columbo by thousands of years from other countries that visited the Americas.
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