Topic: Seattle School Board Votes to Observe ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ on Columbus Day
+vocalon !TRIpcODEmE — 11.8 years ago #38,236
> Columbus Day is next Monday, which means it's once again time for think pieces about the merits of celebrating a man who is responsible for one of the biggest genocides in the history of the world. But unlike these think pieces, one school board has put its money where its mouth is by changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day for its schools.
> In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Seattle School Board gave the controversial holiday a makeover and recognized that "the School Board has a responsibility to oppose the systematic racism toward Indigenous people in the United States, which perpetuates high rates of poverty and income inequality, exacerbating disproportionate health, education and social crises."
> Good move. Instead of pretending Columbus "discovered" America and didn't establish a colonial system that led to thousands of Indigenous people's deaths, Seattle is recognizing the truth of the countries history.
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> In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Seattle School Board gave the controversial holiday a makeover and recognized that "the School Board has a responsibility to oppose the systematic racism toward Indigenous people in the United States, which perpetuates high rates of poverty and income inequality, exacerbating disproportionate health, education and social crises."
> Good move. Instead of pretending Columbus "discovered" America and didn't establish a colonial system that led to thousands of Indigenous people's deaths, Seattle is recognizing the truth of the countries history.
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+Anonymous B — 11.8 years ago, 35 minutes later[T] [B] #426,369
@OP> Being this obsessed with "the systematic racism toward Indigenous people in the United States"
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 11.8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #426,373
> it's once again time for think pieces about the merits of celebrating a man who[...]
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+Anonymous D — 11.8 years ago, 4 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #426,438
> celebrating a man who is responsible for one of the biggest genocides in the history of the world
The main killer of "indigenous peoples" in the Americas wasn't genocide at the hands of that overly mythologized Columbusfag, Britfags, Spanishfags, or Frenchfags, it was disease.
P.S. No1cars.
The main killer of "indigenous peoples" in the Americas wasn't genocide at the hands of that overly mythologized Columbusfag, Britfags, Spanishfags, or Frenchfags, it was disease.
P.S. No1cars.
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