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L.A. County votes to rename Columbus Day

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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to eliminate all references to Columbus Day as a county holiday, designating Oct. 12 as Italian American Heritage Day and creating a new Indigenous Peoples Day.

Indigenous Peoples Day will fall on the second Monday of October, beginning no later than 2019.

Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl co-authored the motion.

“This action is about publicly recognizing that America’s ancestors, for centuries, oppressed certain minority groups,” Solis said.

Many speakers were emotional, recalling a history of genocide. Others said honoring Columbus served to distort what their children learn in school.

“There are a lot of generations of hurt,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said.

Solis said the change would not mean forgetting what Columbus had done, but would lead to a fuller understanding.

“This is not about erasing history,” Solis said. “I believe the full history and impact of Christopher Columbus should be taught to current and future generations. While we cannot change the past, we can realize the pain that millions suffered throughout our nation’s history, as well as the tremendous achievements of the original inhabitants of our continent.”

Columbus, long celebrated for his discovery of America, never actually set foot on North American soil. He landed instead in the Caribbean, where he was said to have committed atrocities against the native island people he found there.

Solis said the motion amounted to restorative justice. She pointed to the contributions of Native Americans to agriculture, medicine, music, language and art, while also noting that they suffer some of the highest percentages of depression, incarceration and infant mortality and have a lower life expectancy than other Americans.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger voted against the motion without comment.

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99 comments for "L.A. County votes to rename Columbus Day"

    • I think Lin-Manuel Miranda also loves Marc Anthony.

      PS: My first reply got snuffed. This is the most lively thread on the forum.

  2. Hey all you gr!ng0s and gabachos:

    We’re going to sneak into your country and steal it (back). And if you b!tch, we’ll beat you over the head with RACIST, RACIST, RAcis………….

    • So that must be you on the other side of my property in a chintzy tent typing through your government funded smartphone. I felt sympathetic at first so I wanted to bring you food and water. But then I saw the graffiti, the stolen shopping carts and the trash that you managed to accumulate and spread in front of my house so well that I decided to give the food to my dogs instead. Sell your smartphone and you’ll have comida for a two weeks Panch.

  3. … our de facto Mexifornia day is 05 May (e.g., cinco de mayo), official day where Mexifornians inebriate themselves, proudly trash out the city in mock revolution, raising the Mexican flag over the American flag. Almost exactly 6 months later, Columbus day otherwise constitutes the ideal time of year, to commemorate state corruption, double-standards in jurisprudence, different laws for different people, wholesale law breaking, illegal behavior, and legalized crime wrought upon us, by sanctuary city politicians. I vote we rename Columbus day, sanctuary city day –

    • … the Mexifornia 5 (e.g., top 5 sanctuary city politicians of Mexifornia):

      1). Eric Garcetti –
      – e.g., the most pro-sanctuary city mayor in U.S. history; Garcetti redirects taxpayer revenue earmarked for the homeless, to subsidize illegal immigration into Los Angeles.
      2). Jerry Brown –
      – e.g., governor Moonbeam outspends on illegal immigrants, in excess of every governor in U.S. history.
      3). Antonio Villaregoso –
      – e.g., Mexifornia’s next governor in-waiting; Villarigoso is more loyal to Mexico, than America.
      4). Kamilla Harris –
      – e.g., Mexifornia’s senator, 100% bought and paid for, by pro-Mexican lobbiests; when they say jump, she replies, “how-high?”
      5). Nancy Pelosi –
      – e.g., Pelosi favors DACA, amnesty, free healthcare for illegals, and unrestricted illegal immigration (so long as they never settle in her congressional district, and everyone else but her has to pay for it).

      • Don’t forget DeLeon. Spawn of illegal aliens championed taking away 2nd Amendment rights codified in The Constitution.

        • Most of these politicians are really enemies of the people of the USA, without loyalty to the country their parents sneaked (snuck?) into. Now they want me to live in a place like the sh!th0le they came from. AND PAY FOR IT !!

          Wow, that should win me friends and influence here in Mexifornia.

          Yeah, yeah, I know. Racist, racist, yada yada.

          And yet, as of now, not one damn person (other than 12 magnificent veterans) has been to the mountains of Western Puerto Rico to help my family, some of whom are in their 90s.

          UNFAIR.

    • Do you whine about celebrations of St Patrick’s Day? I’m not Irish, but I like St Patrick’s Day. I eat corned beef and cabbage, practice my brogue, wear green…good fun. I also enjoy a good Cinco de Mayo party. Heck, I’ve even been to a Chinese New Year party.

      Let me guess though…since what you are really about here is ‘hate the brown people’ you have a particular problem with Cinco de Mayo parties. Get back in your racist closet.

      • You’re the whiner! Always whining about ALL Law Enforcement; always whining about those that don’t have the education level you have, by pointing out spelling and proper sentence structure errors. Whining about your taxes going to anyone suffering in a disaster ridden area, because the state is the color red. Covering your own bigoted mind-set by calling everyone that has a different opinion than you, a racist. Belittling those you perceive as non-worthy of your praise by telling them to die or commit suicide. You give new meaning to the word appalling, Tim. You have an autocratic attitude, and you justify your words by calling yourself as a liberal, which you are not.

      • … the alt-left Antifa definition of a racist: anyone caught in disagreement, with the Muslims, the brothas or the muchachos –

      • Chinese New Year isn’t political. A Catholic-Irish religious holiday, St Patrick’s Day is apolitical. In celebration of Mexico’s deadbeat nation status, in default on its 19th century international financial obligations, the most politically decisive day in America, the mock revolution of its Hispanic community every cinco de mayo, in celebration of their loyalty to Mexico, and their deep-seeded hatred of America.

          • Another shocker by Now In Depends. Of course, Now In Depends knows that the Hispanic community is incapable of loving America while loving their heritage. Now In Depends agrees that Cinco de Mayo is the most politically decisive day in America? Shocking! Now In Depends, you do know that Hispanics serve in the military, don’t you? You do know that Hispanics celebrate July 4, don’t you? You do know that non Hispanics also celebrate Cinco de Mayo, right?

            I bet you cry yourself to sleep every April 9, wondering what could have been.

          • Putz. I have literally, LITERALLY, 100s of close Hispanic relatives in PR.

            And BTW, just got a report. Seems nobody has gone up into the mountains of Western Puerto Rico to deliver aid except 12 magnificent military vet volunteers. My 92 YO mommy is drinking rainwater. Word of honor. I’m talking about OUR Hispanics, jerk, not someone else’s.

            Still love to mess with ya buddy. I’m Bill O’Reilly.

          • Hey, In Depends

            That wasn’t me. There’s another William here and it’s fun to watch you think you know who is who, O’Reilly.

            I do. He does. But, you don’t.

          • ‘Our’ Hispanics? Do you own them? Are they chattel? Who gives a darn about ‘Their’ Hispanics anyway, right In Depends?

            The more you speak, the clearer it is.

          • William, you don’t care about the Hispanics, or African Americans that call themselves Republicans, and you don’t want your tax dollars (control issue) going to hurricane Harvey victims because it is a red state. Guess what William, Houston’s mayor is a Democrat, and also there are brown people of both parties that are suffering. Does the make you a racist, William?

          • Are you a racist, William? You don’t want your tax dollars going to help those suffering from the effects of hurricane Harvey. There are plenty of Hispanics and African Americans affected by Harvey. By the way, Houston’s mayor is a Democrat. Is that showing love, William?

          • It doesn’t matter In Depends. Your comments are nonsensical to begin with so you can direct them anywhere you want and the effect will be the same, to be mocked or ignored.

            Take yer pick.

        • Suzette, YOU are the one making it a “political holiday” with all your false connotations. Just like someone of the appropriate bigot persuasion could easily make a “Catholic Irish” holiday political…I know, because my ancestors were Orangemen. My family outgrew bigotry…do the same.

          • Hold up there, Tim. Your family outgrew bigotry! You posted about a year ago that nothing to ugly came out of your dad’s mouth. That’s the truth and you know it. Not to mention the rest of your family that you’ve slandered for all to see. Man, you’re all over the map.

          • I posted what a year ago? Whatever it was I would guess it made more sense than your recap.

            As for my dad…yeah, bigot to the core, though he transitioned from religion to race. Notice that I didn’t say WHEN my family outgrew bigotry, just that we have.

          • Whatever I might have posted a year ago I guarantee it did not include “nothing to ugly” coming from my dad. The man had a slur for every ethnicity but mixed former northern European and multiples for most.

            Meanwhile, you can’t see slander…that would be libel…if it weren’t true.

          • O.K., “nothing too ugly,” Tim. Correcting my spelling doesn’t change the fact that if you’re going to call someone else a bigot, it’s a good idea not to be one yourself. So your comment to Suzette applies to you and your bigoted family. You might be able to pick apart my spelling, etc., but you are still a hypocrite. By the way it’s “Juilliard” not “Julliard.” You can’t see slander???

          • Make up your mind, Tim. Were you lying when you said that “nothing too ugly” came out of your dad’s mouth? He’s deceased so he can’t sue you for libel. What about the rest of your family that you defame? Why are you telling Suzette your family outgrew bigotry, when you have clearly stated that they are bigot’s.

          • Hmmmmm…perhaps I didn’t make this clear…or perhaps Alexis is a dim bulb…hard to tell.

            My ancestors were Orangemen.

            My dad was a racist. I don’t believe that I would ever say that “nothing too bad” came out of his mouth.

            I’m neither, though it takes effort because my dad did fill my head with slurs and I have to fight to keep them from coming out of my mouth sometimes.

            My kids aren’t, and it comes pretty naturally to them.

            So, my family outgrew it. The cycle is hard to break, but it can be done.

            Meanwhile…no Alexis you can’t see slander. You can hear it, but you can’t see it. If you can see it, it’s libel.

            Anything else that’s gone over your head that you want me to explain to you?

          • Tim:

            My kids tell me the service is a great equalizer, educator and integrator of cultures and ethnicities. They think that if more people served, we would be more “homogenized” as a nation with less bigotry. But they also say that most kids today couldn’t hang with a drill sergeant/PO in their face.

          • Well Tim, your family hasn’t outgrown bigotry. You have written libelous words as long as you have been commenting. Did you teach your kids to call people stupid? Did you teach your kids to correct other peoples spelling? Did you teach your kids to tell people to go die if they have different opinions? Or do you tell them not to be the way you are? So you are a white Calvinist! What’s your point, Tim. Your kids grew up with a dictator that taught them hate. You are an insecure bully that has been verbally abusing those you perceive are less than you. That is a long list. You can call me stupid every day and it only makes me smarter. You turned out just like the way you described your dad.

          • You take those slurs your dad put into your and you use them on others, using this forum and probably others. You turned out just like you describe your dad. I hope your kids didn’t turn out like you, a bigot. It’s ingrained in you, that’s why you think it’s O.K. to tell people to go die, among other hateful words you use, and have been since you’ve been posting here, (two years at least). Orangemen are white Calvinist’s. Generations of bigotry right up to you and yours.

          • LOL…once again you sacrifice your credibility just to vent your venom. Pretty much everyone here who pays attention knows that I don’t use racial slurs. Why do you think you can tell whopping lies like that and be believed Alexis?

          • You have been venting your venom the entire time you have been posting (two years). I am stunned by all the lies you tell, while professing to be a truth teller. You use slurs to attack anyone that doesn’t agree with you. You have actually convinced yourself that it is the right thing to do, to tell people to eat a bullet, commit suicide, and call anyone with a different opinion, a racist, bigot and many other derogatory words (slurs), that is just falsehood (lies) to cover your own. You have been called out so many by others, only to keep posting more. hate.

          • Telling Suzette your family outgrew bigotry is one of your whoppers. What a bunch of garbage you throw out hoping it sticks to someone. King of gossip and lies. You’re the very definition of a keyboard warrior.

          • I’m willing to give Tim Scott some leeway here. He hasn’t called an African American veteran a gang candidate on political hit mailers, which was the dog whistle used by our fearless suing machine mayor against Johnathan Ervin. Tim hasn’t stereotyped Asians and ‘The Gays’ as Rex likes to call them. Never have I read Tim support homophobic and anti Semites like Rex has.

            Tim’s an angel compared to that piece of work.

          • I never said you used racial slurs, Tim. Now that’s just a big fat lie you decided to post. Making stuff up again, hoping it will stick to someone. Oh, and another thing I noticed, you only pounce on others spelling and sentence structure that post comments you don’t like. Otherwise, you say nothing if they think like you. Definitely a control issue, Tim.

          • LOL…Alexis, your claim that I tell “people who disagree with me” to eat a bullet is patently false, and everyone knows it. There have been dozens of people who have disagreed with me. Yet they know that I’ve never told them to eat a bullet. I’ve told YOU to eat a bullet, despite the fact that on a lot of issues we have agreed.

            So, since it isn’t “people I disagree with,” what is it that sets you in such a small group? Well, maybe it’s the fact that you constantly call me names and lie about me. Or maybe it’s the fact that back when you first started calling me a “keyboard warrior” you acted like you wanted to meet in person to “sort out our differences” and then refused. Take responsibility for your behavior, and quit pretending that my despising you is a result of your opinions.

      • Grew up with lots of Irish (and everyone else). St. Patty’s Day was great time for all. Non-denominational, except Catholic Church refused to have gays participate in the huge parade.

        • And before some knee-jerk imbecile screams homophobe, I was deriding the church in NYC. I think gay people are some of our best and most creative citizens.

          • Rex thinks “The Gays” and Asians on the BLVD will lower crime.

            I after the chirping birds attracted panhandlers and increased the crime, he had to come up with a new angle.

            What a dolt.

  4. This is the result of the infestation of the low IQ genetics from the 3rd world invasion from the South.

    Anything in CA being done from here on out is for them and by them, and that’s why everything they will do will do nothing but continue to destroy this once great state. Like eliminating Columbus Day.

  5. The result of the infestation of the low IQ genetics from the 3rd world invasion from the South. Anything in CA being done from here on out is for them and by them. That’s why everything they will do will do nothing but continue to destroy this once great state.

    • What can you do
      You’re in a stew
      Hot pot cook it up
      I’m never gonna stop
      Fancy a bite
      My appetite
      Yum yum gee it’s fun
      Banging on a different drum
      And I eat cannibal
      Feed on animal
      Your love is so edible to me
      I eat cannibals

  7. California aka Mexifornia is no longer the great state it once was, illiterate children, zombie drugged children as well as adults, illegal’s taking over (breaking our laws) out of hand demonstrating, adults (includes government officials) such a great example to our children how to disrespect our leaders (President) and Our Flag. California (Mexifornia) no longer united but divided. Instead of being so concerned about renaming Columbus Day, be concerned about where we’re headed, it’s not very pretty. May God have mercy on us, we need it.

    • If you are so very very worried about all of this change you could take action yourself.
      Stop expecting others to make the changes for you.
      Get out there, start a movement.
      Make California Great Again!

      Free nachos!

    • Uh, what did you expect from a state with the El Camino Real highway and a bunch of missions and towns named after saints in Spanish BEFORE CALIFORNIA WAS EVEN A STATE?

      And, before you were even born? You are an Anita-come-lately. Maybe you should leave.

      Go to Canada and complain about all the French speakers and see how that flies.

      • The first inhabitants were Asians, that used a land bridge that no longer exists to cross the Bering Strait into the North Americas.

          • I was thinking the same thing about you, William. You’re everywhere, you’re everywhere, all the time, all the time. You typo-crit.

          • Three cheers for Queen Alexis, our female superhero, thwarting and holding her own against a base, nefarious league of evil supervillains, whose names we shall not speak.

            Our heroine, fighting with great heart and courage for truth, justice and the American way, against the enemies of man and nature (you know who you are).

      • The reality for me is:

        The Conquistadors stole it first, USA stole it last, and I don’t want to give it back.

        Alexis for President !!

        • Hanging out at Studio “Z” in Cucamonga with Frank, Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood and the gang.

      • William:

        And to misquote the man himself: HELP, YOU’RE A ROCK HEAD.

        PS: I still luv ya, buddy

    • Anita, if you are so afraid, you should move to Tehachapi or Boron. You’ll do well there.

  8. Here in the sanctuary city of Mexifornia, I would think there might several prominent Mexican Mafia gangbangers born the 12th of October, whom to commemorate

  10. Do other countries change their holidays because a few out of the many have a problem with the reason for the holiday? i think not! The greatest country in the world is losing more and more of its backbone every time something like this is done. Once history can be accessed only by computers, and something in our history is changed because it offends a particular group, that part of history will be wiped out with the press of a button. I’ve always felt that by knowing what really happened in our history helps keeps past atrocities from being repeated. Each of these states that makes up the United States states needs to quit cow towing to all of the whiners. Why don’t the people see that united we stand, divided we fall? We are becoming more and more divided. If we don’t become united, we are certain to fall.

    • I see that “united we stand” bit, but if maintaining the US requires standing united with white nationalists I’d rather let it fall.

        • Well, actually it would be best if they develop a human conscience and give up the white nationalism. But as a second choice staying in their little echo chamber is good.

        • I was just wondering why is there a negative connotation of “nationalist’? Are we conflating nationalist with supremist? Is that something from Breitbart?

          I thought “nationalist” was just someone that loves their country. Why is it bad to love one’s country? What if you were a black nationalist, like Sheriff Clarke of Milwaukee? Would that be bad?

  11. So, when my 8 year old daughter reads some of LA county’s fine history books taught in public school she will not read about Columbus Day? Hmmm. What about Thanksgiving? How will the history books rewrite that?

  12. I’m OK with renaming it. But do not give the county workers the day off. They should be working.

    • Seconded! If the county does not want to celebrate Columbus, then they don’t need to. It can be just another workday for our county employees. Certainly the county supervisors don’t want to “celebrate” the pain of suffering of so many people.

    • It is still a Federal holiday, a county can’t change that. it is mostly symbolic in nature.

  13. Humanity on a whole has a sordid history of mistreatment and atrocities against fellow human beings. It is en vogue to highlight Columbus and the Europeans, but a stdy of world history will unveil an unsightly portrait of behaviour. Humanity has not loved one another as it should.

  14. Good and about freaking time, why do we keep ignoring the fact that the real savages and greedy #$@$% were the Europeans that “found” land that was never lost to begin with? We should demand that history in this country is re-written to show the atrocities committed in the name of hate and greed. Other countries show students their history with accuracy, the good and the bad, we sugar coat everything and it’s ridiculous.

  15. Being Native American myself, you cannot erase the past by changing names, removing statues, not teach history to our children, etc. By trying to erase the truth of what happened, we are dooming ourselves to repeat the past as we see happening right now with the violence caused by the left. Not proud of the past of what happened to my people and others, but it is the past and we as humans have the ability to move forward and be peaceful and accepting of one another despite our difference, i.e. beliefs and backgrounds. May God Bless you all.

  16. I went to the Yucatan Penninsula and Quintana Roo province of Mexico last year for an expedition at Tulum and other Mayan holy sites. While there, our tour guide (a Princeton-educated Mayan himself) stated that the Mayans ultimately created their own fate. They had an advanced mathematics and astronomy system that was very intricate and rivaled those of other known civilizations at the time. Where they went wrong was when the lower class Mayans in society grew jealous of the educated class of Mayans. When this happened, they toppled the entire Mayan civilization and destroyed the culture, thereby, making it easier for the Spanish to eventually come in and conquer them.

    In essence, the destruction of Mayan culture was in large part their own fault and nobody else’s.

      • That depends on who’s paranoid fantasies you inhabit. Usually this particular paranoid fantasy is used to support the “what we really need is debtor’s prisons like our European ancestors used” because THAT is what really made our civilization great.

        • And what do ya mean, “That DEPENDS”? Are you trying to be funny? You might hurt my little feelings again, bad man.

  17. Why don’t we have holidays that celberate the screw ups of every races past. Remind them of who their forefathers use to be. How they were robbers, rapists, fraudulent. This b.s. was voted in by indigenous morons that need a reason to look down on certain people that have squat to do with the past… a 400+ year old past. Hmm, I wonder how groups like black lives matter, etc would handle the idea of voting in a memorial day that reminds them of the evil of there prior generations. Nowadays everyone is a victim. It’s pathetic.

  18. He killed EVERY SINGLE native American from Taino tribe in Puerto Rico and what he called ‘West Indies” with typhus. Then he imported slave labor to work the ‘Rich Port’.

    A real sweetheart. A whole traffic circle in very heart of NYC named for him. I used to stop to pee there.

    • Natives were real sweethearts too. All they did here was decapitating and scalping each other. See, if it wasn’t for Columbus, everyone now in N America would be like you – a pig peeing on the street.

      • It was just rhetorical (look that up), !mbecile. You’d get busted if you really did pee.

        Natives didn’t invade Europe and enslave them. Who’s the good guys here? You moral compass is broken.

        And can’t you do better than “p!g”?

        • So, what exactly are you trying to say?
          Spilling bunch of gibberish, that’s all you good for, mоrоn

          • LOL. Can’t argue with that. Very accurate. Wish I said it.

            And I love my Uncle Sam.

            AKA tarred&feathered

        • No, not at all. I think you misunderstood. Let me be clear. The Conquistadors were human scum and the Europeans raped, plundered and enslaved an isolated, prosperous, relatively peaceful “New World”. Natives probably wished Europeans stayed in the “Old World’.

          Their legacy of corruption, piss-poor government and exploitation/subjugation of the natives still bites us in Latin America (and now in Mexifornia) to this day. Yeah, yeah, racist, racist, racist…….Truth hurts?

          Analysis: Guns and horses ruled. They won with military technology. The stronger will bully the weaker. It’s unfortunate and unfair, but evolution and human nature from the beginning.

          Lesson learned: Have better technology. Rebuild our military !!!!!!!!

          Columbus sucked! Antifa sucks now.