MicroGroks
A curious thing has happened in Stamford, Connecticut. The school board has voted 5-3 to make teachers who hate Columbus Day and Veterans Day but were getting paid to sit on their asses – work both days. The school will be open, and regular classes will commence.
On Oct 5, 2023, while driving by the Kensington School marquee, I noticed one side of the public-paid-for-sign that said, “Indigenous Peoples Day No School Oct 9.” The other side of the public-paid-for-sign said, “Teacher in Service No School Oct 6.”
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.
So on Columbus Day, Annie McLane-Custer made it a point to commemorate “Indigenous People’s Day,” and to ignore Columbus Day:
Kamala is absolutely correct that the European colonizers of America “ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land and spreading disease”:
So, now we learn that Boston’s Acting Mayor Kim Janey has sparked howls of anger when she unilaterally whacked Columbus Day, replacing it with the politically correct “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
According to the Boston news: “Boston officially recognizes Indigenous Peoples Day, replacing Columbus Day after Kim Janey signed executive order.”
Columbus Day is only six weeks away and some folks will want to call it indigenous people’s day. But we have demonstrated on these pages repeatedly that 1) North America had no indigenous people and 2) those that came here frequently displaced others long before Columbus and long after.
You want to be like the other #woke School Boards, but the people who elected you aren’t having it. They get insulted when you change Columbus Day to “Indigenous People’s Day.” They don’t like it. They storm the meetings. What’s a #woke school board to do?
Regular readers will be familiar with this topic. #Woke progressives and their water carriers pining to remake Columbus Day into Indigenous people’s day. They’re obsessed. But North America doesn’t have any indigenous people. Not the way they argue it.
