I think we should ditch it. There's nothing good about it. Every place I've ever worked traded Columbus Day for the Friday after Thanksgiving. Columbus has a very tenuous connection to the US, and he was a dick.
I agree. But I don't think it's a very good idea to piss off the Eyetalians.
I'm conflicted. If The Evil White Man had not landed on the island Boriken and raped all the pretty big butt Taino women, and then brought the african slaves to rape too, I would not exist. :unsure:
All i got from that is Lusti condones Rape.
:mmm:
In Detroit it was nice to have because it's also Canuck Thanksgiving. Canadians working in the US, or Americans with family in Canada didn't have to take another day off. :Canuck:
At my current job we get to pick two of 3: MLK, Columbus and Christmas Eve. My Canadian coworkers always have Columbus off so it makes for a light day.
I'm a-fer it. Columbus is the least threatening of all the explorers to celebrate the rape-rape of the New World.
"Happy Cortez Day" just doesn't have the same ring to it, and would be a helluva downer of a 2nd grade assembly skit.
I think it reminds us of an important lesson about tolerance. Sometimes not slaughtering the new people you meet to the last man can really backfire.
:yes:
Take Mexico, for instance. :(
No thanks :yucky:
Then Tim would just start coloring in Central America on his maps.
Eggs are nice.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 15, 2013, 11:37:02 AM
Then Tim would just start coloring in Central America on his maps.
"Look, the Confederate States of Belize!"