Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace.

[moriah]

90. And what the hell do those people have to do with Columbus?

Columbus "discovered" America the same way the people at work "discover" the stuff you left in the fridge for yourself. It might have been new and shiny to him, so shiny in fact he immediately had to write back to Their Catholic Majesties that the people would make great slaves (so he wasn't that big on breathing free).... but he wasn't even the first European to enter the "New World."

You may feel the poster was over-the-top in suggesting we rename a large city in Ohio.

But so is trying to suggest that calling colonialism out for the shitstorm it was to indigenous populations and urging people to not venerate an unscrupulous asshole is somehow insulting later generations of immigrants or that only people who are 100% indigenous have the right to bitch.

Fuck, if we AREN'T Native, we have a not just a right to bitch, but a duty to use our privilege and louder voice to call it out, IMHO!