J South,

What do you celebrate on Columbus Day? A man who "discovered America"? Are 
you aware that America had already been colonized by the Portuguese, and 
probably the Chinese? So, not only are you celebrating a man who murdered 
Natives, enslaved Natives, and tortured and mutilated Natives in order to 
force them to give up their gold, he was also a fraud.

By comparison, the ideals of Kwanzaa are pretty good. Focus on the ideals, 
not where they came from. Sometimes good comes from evil, as in the case of 
Columbus.

Anne Pemberton
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