In Keeping With The Day
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Until the next time dear family and friends have a day of blessings
October 7, 2018
Columbus Day Post
For Those Who Celebrate: Columbus Day and I know some who do and some who don't. 😊 But just in case you do I wish you a blessed and..
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In Keeping With The Day 
But If You Don't Celebrate The Holiday Tell Me Why! 🙋😏
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Until the next time dear family and friends have a day of blessings
In Keeping With The Day
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Until the next time dear family and friends have a day of blessings
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Ok...so I am going to give an unsolicited History lesson (rolling giggles and a wink). Columbus never set foot in America/North America. He actually discovered the Islands of Bahamas, Caribbean, South and Central America. This holiday came by way of the Italians in 1869 as Columbus was Italian. I just wrote a paper on this topic, and it has left me unsettled---due to the fact, this caused the demise of the Native American/Indigenous people in South and Central America. Columbus never landed here, so its based on a lie, all those stories growing up; lies. Columbus was not a very nice man, not at all.
ReplyDeleteI don't hold it against anyone if they do celebrate---I just choose not to, at least now. Its sad what this man did....Other than that---not meaning to cause hard feelings.
I am awaiting my grade on this-its in my Native American class-he said not to "BS" him (which was stated on the directions/prompt), which I didn't, he also referenced my thesis in class and stunned the class with it...which my thesis was, "Why in the hell would Native Americans celebrate Columbus Day?" I told my husband, "my goose is cooked" as he referenced it. I didn't dare answer or even look at him--nor did he look at me. The truth hurt to read the truth about this man Columbus, I always took it as face value like everyone else. I don't think the professor was mad about the usage of language--he was more shocked that I actually did research, lolol. Umm...yeah....that's what I do.
Linda most people don't celebrate Columbus Day even most of us Italians really don't. They celebrate the day off from school, work and Federal buildings. My family and I use the day to ride around enjoying the Autumn day, we stop and have lunch together and go to farm stands pumpkin buying. It's a holiday we always used for leaf peeking and a day out. Never once do we reference the fact it's a day to celebrate Columbus or the idea that he discovered America. He may have been Italian but he sailed for Spain and never set foot on American soil. But I do thank you for the unsolicited history lesson.
DeleteHe is loved dearly in Puerto Rico which he discovered and loved. The current propaganda against him is nonsense. We celebrated the day in school in a big way as my town was mainly Italian. We worked on little boats for the rooms, painted pictures, sang songs and put on a play each year. And he DID set foot on American soil as Puerto Rico is part of America! ;) The movies about him are trash, and he is very under-rated. He did a very brave thing. He is well thought of in Italy and Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic for sure. We live in a time when heroes are being torn down one by one and its sad.
ReplyDeleteHis voyage in those ships was nothing short of remarkable.
This was good to read, Ann! Thank you!
DeleteThanks Annie! I'm only sorry my family never made a big thing about him. My father was more into Amerigo Vespucci the Italian explorer that America is named after.
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand all the negativity against Christopher Columbus...it is sad that our universities and schools today are doing everything they can to destroy our history. I don't pretend to know everything, but I will continue to remember "in fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue". I am sorry if he also did bad things in the process of discovering the "Americas"...but lots of explorers, soldiers, kings, queens, etc., have done bad things for their countries' glory. It all depends on whose side of the glory we are on, doesn't it? One country's loss is another country's gain. And it has been that way since the beginning of time...even in the Bible. So...I can't re-write history to make it all neat and clean and perfect...I can only be thankful for where I am today, and for this great country we proudly call America. Praise God for those brave ones who dared to travel the ocean blue to discover new lands. Where would we be without them?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everything you say Pamela. Thank you for you posting my friend.
DeleteHappy Columbus day to you too, Toni.
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