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 [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org