This week, another piece of legislation was introduced in Committee to end Columbus Day. To make it indigenous people’s day (NH HB 180). In honor of, you guessed it, indigenous people who, as it turns out, are people whose ancestors were born here before yours.
As regular readers know, I’ve been nothing if not persistent in mocking this notion becasue,
No race of man originated in the New World. The residents of our continent came over water or crossed a temporary land bridge from Asia. Each wave of people had a different reason for making the trip.
Say it with me. North America has no indigenous people. Even less so than most of the world. What the Marxists claim is more accurately squatters’ day—a day to honor the conquerors who came before your ancestors.
Anyone who ever found their way to America came from someplace else. They arrived, declared all that they could see (and much of what they did not) theirs, and kicked whoever arrived before them to the curb.
If they could.
“Native” Tribes captured, enslaved, or killed other tribes as in every other corner of the earth. Mount Rushmore (for example) was only “recently” sacred Lakota land. They moved in and conquered the area (in the 18th century) at the expense and lives of those who were there before them, and it was business as usual until someone displaced them.
Those born here before us took slaves, tortured enemies, and even engaged in cannibalism (HT | NH Journal, for that link) and not a Colonialist “white supremacist” among them. So, we find ourselves in a contradiction. The Marxist stooges peddling the injustice of European conquerors want to celebrate the injustice of those who took the land by force from those who came before them.
The bill to end Columbus Day entirely and celebrate Indigenous People’s Day was filed by Durham Democratic Rep. Tim Horrigan, who made it clear he would not support co-existence — celebrate both holidays on the same day — as some have suggested in the name of compromise.
“I want there to be a [singular] holiday on the second Monday in October, and I want it to be named after the indigenous peoples,” Horrigan said. “I want it not to be named after Christopher Columbus.”
So much for those bumper stickers people put on their Subaru Outbacks, but the idea of ‘no coexistence’ has a sincere ring coming from the mouth of a Democrat tied to a party with an agenda to end the ‘indigenous’ nature of American Liberty. It was born here too. It has had some not-so-nice bits, but they are not worse than what preceded them. What followed, however, was exceptional in human history.
The Left hates that.
They are a political party obsessed with a return to tribalism and faction and the violence that follows. To divide by any means to undermine this nation. And at no point after, should they succeed, will they argue in favor of honoring the indigenous ideology of the Constitutional Republic they worked so hard to displace.
You won’t even be allowed to talk about it.
As for Columbus Day, it should be a celebration of the journey to a new world. Not just the voyage that leads to the birth of a nation but that first “breath” of liberty experienced by every immigrant to arrive on our shores. A country like no other. And not one he would have imagined possible or even embraced. He seems more like Modern Democrats than our Founding Fathers.
Maybe that’s why they hate him so much.
