Memes aside Tony gives the correct take here; you can’t cancel something that never was. Columbus didn’t have to change his surname walking through Ellis Island, he ain’t help great great pop-pop when he lost 2 children to the disease-ridden squalor of early 20th century South Philly, he wasn’t in the Navy Yard alongside my great pop-pop installing the Battleship New Jersey’s boilers, he didn’t stand up when Frank Rizzo preyed upon Italian-American racial biases to break their New Deal Era solidarity via urging Philly to “vote white”, he never put a dime in the pension nor insurance funds which took care of my pop-pop as he was dying from radon exposure, he ain’t bail out my uncle getting beaten on in the drunk tank overnight, he didn’t take in my cousins as his own when that same uncle OD’d off vicodin, he never babysat me when my dad worked 2 jobs as a mailman and Dominos delivery boy to put my mom through grad school, he never loaned my family a dollar during the Recession when I was killing kitchen mice because we couldn’t afford a damn exterminator, you catch my drift. Columbus wasn’t there during our struggles nor did he work towards our success. So please, someone explain in plain English why me or any other wop/wopette should claim that colonial rapist mf as our progenitor when the most he ever did was give us a public holiday my privately-employed ass doesn’t even get off for?
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