{"id":7256,"date":"2021-10-11T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2021-10-11T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:42:30","slug":"democrats-go-after-christopher-columbus-calling-him-genocidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7256","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Go After Christopher Columbus Calling Him \u2018Genocidal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is that time of the year again, no not Christmas but Columbus Day. Columbus Day used to be about celebrating Christopher Columbus, the explorer who connected the Americas with the Old World. But today, many Democrats have used revisionist history to criticize and slander Columbus and declare a new holiday, \u201cIndigenous People\u2019s Day\u201d a day they claim celebrates the indigenous people of the Americas before Columbus committed what they say is a \u201cgenocide\u201d against them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this sort of sentiment and idea used to be said behind closed doors among the Democrats, some are saying it out loud. Democrat Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez of New York tweeted, \u201cToday should just be #IndigenousPeopleDay. And yet this day is still shared with a genocidal maniac. We need to take this time to reflect on the brutal history of violence against Indigenous peoples in America and recognize that there is still a lot of work to repair this harm.\u201d Fellow New York rep Hakeem Jeffries, a high ranking member of the Democratic Party tweeted, \u201cMillions of indigenous people lost their lives during the genocide committed against them in the Americas. Today we pause in solemn recognition of this human tragedy\u201d. President Biden himself declared today as \u201cIndigenous Peoples Day\u201d, the first president to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the Democrats don\u2019t realize is that they are taking a similar position to that of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan has long been anti-Catholic and fought with the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization, over statues of Columbus between the 1920s and 1930s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republicans still stand with Columbus and the holiday, with the official House Republicans twitter tweeting out, \u201cIt\u2019s called Columbus Day. Pass it on\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of the year again, no not Christmas but Columbus Day. Columbus Day used to be about celebrating Christopher Columbus, the explorer who connected the Americas with the Old World. 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