Another state has passed a law that officially does away with Columbus Day and instead will now celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on that day.
Vermont will now become the 6th state to pass such a law, after Maine did so back in March and following the footsteps of Alaska, Minnesota, New Mexico and Oregon.
“Vermont was founded and built upon lands whose original inhabitants were the Abenaki people and honors them and their ancestors,” the bill states. “The establishment of this holiday will aid in the cultural development of Vermont’s recognized tribes, while enabling all indigenous peoples in Vermont and elsewhere to move forward and formulate positive outcomes, from the history of colonization.”
But while the move celebrates the indigenous, it turns its back on the Italian immigrants that were originally celebrated by the holiday.
The National Italian American Foundation shared in a news release, “[w]hen Columbus Day was founded in 1937, the federal holiday provided a sense of dignity and self worth in light of the hostility and discrimination many Italian immigrants, Italians Americans, and Catholics (more broadly) faced.”
Too many foreigners legal and illegal aliens have ruined this country we are no longer the United States ! People we have let into this country want to do away with all our holidays and religion ! Wake up people and see with these new immigrants are doing to your country! We let them into our country and they want to do away with everything that’s American is a disgrace and I’m pissed you don’t want to assimilate and become an American get the hell out of our country !
Fortunately Columbus Day is a federal Holiday.
I will never again visit your state or spend a dollar there. Take your hatred and shove it.
when you try and rewrite history it has some serious side effects now if I was the good people that were first here when Columbus got here I would sue the each of these 6 states for squatting on my recognized lands and have them pay me for all the times that they have resided on my land
If there is any Italians in any of these states, maybe they should leave that state and move to one that honors them.
Columbus never set foot in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Fourth_voyage
Just remove all holidays.That way the people that don’t want to honor history can stay at work and forget about paid holidays too!!!!
Yet ANOTHER anti-American insane politician. There are FAR too many of them around already!
I will add Vermont to the states I will not visit. This state belongs in Canada, the sooner the better. A big FU Vermont!!!!
What a great country we would once more be, if only our congress worked toether for a common goal of making America Great Again. Hey! I can dream can’t, or is that Illegal also?
More DA liberals at work. Leave our history alone…..
I am not celebrating indigenous people day! I don’t care what others say or what state I live in. This is just the height of PC stupidity.
So do the indigenous people have to collaborate a day for the tall blonde haired people they wiped out when the current indigenous people moved to the Americas? Just wondering if we are playing fair or being leftist ass holes
What a bunch of morons.
And Your Point? All indigenous people didn’t ask that their lands be taken from them., and Columbus never made it to the North American Continent Were the Italian ancestors denied anything more than most immigrants? Or is this a knock against the Catholic church being slighted by these states?
Once again , liberal pandering to the masses in gaining votes for the party. Can’t figure out another day, just can one for the other. Slap in the face of the Italian heritage that actually help discover this great country. Our politicians are the sadest group of people with no brain.
More of the continuing effort to do away with all of our history. Eventually we’ll just be another also-ran country with no pride, no history, and no strength of character. Kinda like the UK, Sweden, and the rest of the socialist countries out there.
let history be history
Knowing our new NM Gov. that fits with all the rest of the damn dems.!!!!! Radical liberal lefties.
You people are trash. So before you Native Americans <LMAO dis one Italian, just remember your naming yourself after another one who named the entire hemisphere after himself…Amerigo….for those of you who were absent Libs that YEAR!
I can agree with honoring the tribes of America who gave up so much. But I don’t think it’s a positive move to completely “do away” with the history upon which the nation was built.. There should be a positive move to keep the history of our nation and honor those mentioned at the same time. It appears there is a move afoot to completely destroy American History with the destruction of statues, dishonoring the flag and national anthem, and allowing other nations to fly their flags in our streets.
Enough is enough! As stated many many times, “ ya can’t change history by removing it from the people’s eyes” !
States that are destroying history should never get federal funding again. Never knew that there was that many stupid people in America. This state is a disgrace to America stupidity has become the new normal. These people are a danger to America way of life.
VERMONT THATS OK ALL THATS IN VERMONT ARE AS+HOLES=DUMBACRATS ANYWAY.