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In reply to the discussion: Are we doing Columbus Day this year? [View all]FSogol
(47,632 posts)30. BTW, Robinson is channelling Jack Chick

In the comic, Timmy went to a haunted house and died! Because that's what happens to everyone who goes outside on Halloween.
Scroll down he and read the entire goofy comic:
https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0032/0032_01.asp
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I see that Denver is declaring this "Indigenous peoples day". I sympathize with that sentiment, but
BlueStreak
Oct 2016
#4
Well, yeah, but my ancestors didn't commit wholesale genocide, then turn it into a national holiday.
catbyte
Oct 2016
#9
And when do the Brits, Poles, Norwegians, Nigerians, Scots, French etc get their holidays here?
BlueStreak
Oct 2016
#25
Well, being 5/8 Ojibwe, I won't be attending any of the Columbus Day. festivities...
catbyte
Oct 2016
#8
That GENOCIDAL MANIAC..... worse than Hitler..... "discovered" America my ass....
Nye Bevan
Oct 2016
#14