Why Columbus Day was not about Columbus.

[Ocelot II]

4. Maybe that was its original intent, but more recently it's been a "celebration"

of the so-called "discovery" of America by white Europeans who declared the people they found there to be inferior creatures who could be eliminated or enslaved or driven off their land. Accordingly, Columbus Day has come to be represented as a great event in history even though Columbus was lost, had no idea where he was and never got anywhere near what is now the continental US, but he claimed wherever the hell he was (somewhere in the Bahamas, as it turned out) for Spain, despite the fact that people were already living there.