No one wants to give up a day off, unfortunately very few get the day off any more.  No Italian-Americans want to give up this day of pride, but many are finding that there is less and less to be proud of. At the root of everything is the fact that pretty much everything we were taught about Columbus was wrong and that he was also a pretty horrible person.

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Reason #1 Why We Should Scuttle Columbus Day.  Columbus enslaved Native Americans and forced them to dig for gold. If they did not return with enough gold, he would crucify them THIRTEEN AT A TIME (in honor of Jesus and his disciples).

Reason #2. We don't need a reason number two after reason number one.

We could go on about Leif Erickson coming to America 500 years before Columbus (as well as probably many others).

Here's a little more about Columbus from a very entertaining historian named Kenneth C. Davis

And here's a more accurate telling of the voyages of Columbus

 

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