Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace. [View all]
What exactly are we paying tribute to when we're honoring Columbus? It's a legacy irredeemably tainted by genocide, enslavement, land theft, sheer brutality on a global scale, racism and religious bigotry (among other things). We've thankfully taken down many Confederate flags and monuments, but the genesis of the Confederacy's cruel and barbaric slave culture is still honored and celebrated (albeit in fewer and fewer places each year...Thank goodness!). It's positively disgraceful, and should be a source of great national shame. We should have evolved past this, even with all the deplorable dead weight our oft times backward and lowbrow culture has to tow.
Therefore, every statue honoring Columbus must come down. Every city named after him must be renamed. Columbus Day must not be celebrated. After all, in light of what celebrating such a man represents at its core, doesn't simple, human decency demand it?
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