Opinion of "once a year" Native American activists

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Think the equivalent of Christmas and Easter Christians but half the time. They say nothing about Native Americans or the brutality of early colonialism almost all year until Columbus Day comes near...then they become very outspoken about how terrible Columbus is and how disgusting the holiday is, then proceed to forget about it immediately afte Columbus Day. They are also surprisingly not uniformly liberal and can just as easily consist of College Republican types.

FF obviously.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The thing with Columbus that Sanchez and others are missing is that he really WAS that bad. As Lief put it once he's one of the worst human beings in history hands down and this is true even if judged by the standards of the time instead of the modern era. OK let's consider about this: The same people who were responsible for the Spanish Inquisition removed him from his post for being too brutal.

Columbus Day is about as appropriate as if Belgium had a Leopold II day, because the two are basically comparable, and both were obviously atrocious even by the standards of the time.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Columbus is also a very easy target on the grounds that he's just plain overrated in general. He never set foot on the modern day US, and he was entirely wrong about everything that he argued and only accomplished anything (and didn't die) because of complete accident. He was laughed out of getting funding by almost everyone in Europe for reasons which were in fact entirely correct and as everyone knows now, had nothing to do with anyone believing the Earth was flat.