Should Columbus, Ohio be renamed?

[Nye Bevan]

Every Columbus Day the internet is abuzz with how Columbus was a genocidal psychopathic maniac, equivalent to Hitler as far as many are concerned. And obviously a city named "Hitler" would not be tolerated in Germany.

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	Yes, Columbus, Ohio should be renamed.
	1 (9%)
	No, Columbus, Ohio should not be renamed.
	10 (91%)
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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I think that decision is best left to the citizens of Columbus, Ohio.

[LuvNewcastle]

18. I agree.

The city should belong to the people who live there. I personally am not crazy about this new name-changing faze people are going through. Should all the people named Cortez change their name? Seems like a good way to cause a lot of needless confusion.

[Chan790]

26. I was coming into this thread to say exactly this.

Let the people of Columbus or at-least Ohioans decide whether to rename Columbus.

[CincyDem]

2. How about we sequence these things...Washington Redskins first.

Knock that off and then we can go after the 8 cities named Columbus. Get some momentum in the smaller cities and then go after a state capital. My guess - while I agree with your sentiment - is that the idea of renaming the 15th largest city in the country is a long shot.

[1939]

3. All of them

Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Nebraska
Columbia, South Carolina
The Columbia River
District of Columbia
Columbia University
Columbus Circle in New York
Outlaw the Knights of Columbus

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

22. Name them all...

Reagan!!!

That'll give the Rs a reason to legislate.

[yardwork]

27. I think there may be a Columbus in almost every state.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Should the District of Columbia?

De Soto County, Florida? Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta? Jacksonville, Florida, and Jackson, Mississippi? Custer, South Dakota?

[pinboy3niner]

5. Goodbye, Columbus?

Philip Roth was way ahead of you.

[kwassa]

6. Rename it Buckeye...

[liberal_at_heart]

7. I'd support it. I'm glad to see Alaska changing Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali and

Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day.

[Snobblevitch]

12. Alaska has been calling that mountain Denali for decades. That is a federal official switch.

[Ex Lurker]

8. Columbus was a man of his time and culture

if it hadn't been him it would have been someone else. He's not particularly laudable, but you can find something legitimately objectionable about every human being who's ever lived, is living, or will live. Lincoln presided over Native American genocide, and he's generally regarded as one of the top two or three most significant figures in US history. At some point you have to let the past stay in the past and go on from there. That goes for Columbus, Confederates, or what have you.

[liberal_at_heart]

9. Oh, believe me, ever since I learned Andrew Jackson was responsible for the Trail of

Tears which my ancestors were on, I have never viewed him the same since.

[Snobblevitch]

13. And Jacknson was one of the founders of the Democratic party.

[liberal_at_heart]

14. Although I voted straight Democratic ticket for many years, parties have never

really mattered to me all that much. That's why it was so easy for me to leave and become an Independent.

[Snobblevitch]

15. I'm not really getting the connect with your response to the issue of Denali?

[liberal_at_heart]

16. My last response was simply a reply to your statement about Jackson

being a founding member of the Democratic Party.

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. Columbus is Arawak City right?

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. Christopher Columbus gets ax to the head in Detroit

In what could be dubbed an act of criminal irony, a statue of Christopher Columbus in downtown Detroit was vandalized just in time for this year's Columbus Day.

The statue, located at Jefferson and Randolph right next to city hall, was splashed with fake blood, and a hatchet was taped to his forehead as if it had just been struck.

The hatchet was later removed by a group of urban explorers, who can be seen examining the statue in a video posted to Facebook.

It was not clear when exactly the statue was vandalized. Detroit police are looking into the incident. City officials will have the fake blood cleaned up tomorrow, said Dan Austin, a Mayor's Office spokesman.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2015/10/12/christopher-columbus-gets-ax-head-detroit/73829246/

[Person 2713]

17. Hey you stole that poll from a Fox station

[temporary311]

19. Only if we can change the name to Funky Town.

[hobbit709]

20. Let's rename Colombia while we're at it, change Istanbul back to Constantinople,

rename all places named after Washington, Jefferson, Madison and most of the other founding fathers.

[ileus]

21. The 1/32 NA in me voted yes.

[Quackers]

24. The 1/8 Cherokee in me voted no.

the vote counters are going to have a fun time with us!

1/8=4/32-1/32=3/32 nay. Now, we have to figure up the rest of our ancestry and include their votes. But I have to tell you, my 1/4 Scottish is leaning toward a yes vote.....so I may berry well cancel myself out.....

[Travis_0004]

31. Does that mean the 31/32 in you voted no?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

23. Tons of cities, schools, banks were named...

were named after slave holders and slave rapists. Why stop with Columbus?

[DFW]

25. There IS a city in Germany named "Hilter"

It's near Osnabrück, and has been there for 900 years or so, and some friends of mine all hail from there.

Tourists driving by do a double-take, as they re-arrange the letters in their mind to form a name they are familiar with.

[quickesst]

28. Change a couple of letters...

.....and voila! COLUMBO, OHIO

[Iggo]

29. Yes.

[underpants]

30. GO BUCKEYES!!!