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The move to eliminate Columbus Day was called “restorative justice” by one liberal.
Chrissie Castro of the Los Angeles City-County Native American Indian Commission argued that ending all celebrations of Columbus would help to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples.”
While Columbus’ connection to the murder, destruction, and enslavement of some Native American groups is unquestionably immoral and unworthy of being celebrated, the decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is more than a little ironic.
The Aztecs made between 10,000 and 80,000 sacrifices in 1487 as a part of their dedication to the primary temple in Tenochtitlan. Many of the sacrifices involved ritualistic torture and abuse, including cutting the hearts out of live victims.
Many Native American tribes practiced slavery and held racist views of other tribes. Following wars, enslaved people who were lucky enough not to be sacrificed would often be forced to engage in small-scale labor. Some tribes would mutilate their slaves to keep them from escaping. Indigenous peoples throughout North America also engaged in brutal war tactics and infanticide, the murder of innocent children.
Additionally, Native American groups committed many unjustifiable attacks on American colonists. In March 1622, Powhatan warriors traveled to multiple colonial settlements in Virginia under the guise of wanting to engage in peace and trade. Once settlers opened their communities to the Powhatan, they were murdered in one of the bloodiest events in early colonial history. Roughly one-third of all Virginia colonists were killed in a single day.
Human sacrifice, slavery, racism, and the murder of innocent children — hardly sounds like a group worth celebrating by modern standards. These are precisely the groups liberals have determined to be worthy of recognition.
There’s no excuse for the tremendous horrors inflicted on Native American tribes by some European settlers, just as there is no excuse for the numerous crimes against humanity committed by many of these same Native Americans against each other and against many innocent, peaceful colonists.
https://spectator.org/the-perils-of-ending-columbus-day/[/QUOTE]
Chrissie Castro of the Los Angeles City-County Native American Indian Commission argued that ending all celebrations of Columbus would help to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples.”
While Columbus’ connection to the murder, destruction, and enslavement of some Native American groups is unquestionably immoral and unworthy of being celebrated, the decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is more than a little ironic.
The Aztecs made between 10,000 and 80,000 sacrifices in 1487 as a part of their dedication to the primary temple in Tenochtitlan. Many of the sacrifices involved ritualistic torture and abuse, including cutting the hearts out of live victims.
Many Native American tribes practiced slavery and held racist views of other tribes. Following wars, enslaved people who were lucky enough not to be sacrificed would often be forced to engage in small-scale labor. Some tribes would mutilate their slaves to keep them from escaping. Indigenous peoples throughout North America also engaged in brutal war tactics and infanticide, the murder of innocent children.
Additionally, Native American groups committed many unjustifiable attacks on American colonists. In March 1622, Powhatan warriors traveled to multiple colonial settlements in Virginia under the guise of wanting to engage in peace and trade. Once settlers opened their communities to the Powhatan, they were murdered in one of the bloodiest events in early colonial history. Roughly one-third of all Virginia colonists were killed in a single day.
Human sacrifice, slavery, racism, and the murder of innocent children — hardly sounds like a group worth celebrating by modern standards. These are precisely the groups liberals have determined to be worthy of recognition.
There’s no excuse for the tremendous horrors inflicted on Native American tribes by some European settlers, just as there is no excuse for the numerous crimes against humanity committed by many of these same Native Americans against each other and against many innocent, peaceful colonists.
https://spectator.org/the-perils-of-ending-columbus-day/[/QUOTE]
