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It’s Time to Stop Celebrating Columbus Day

Oct 12, 2015
Honoring Columbus Day means honoring a painful history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs that followed the Italian explorer’s 1492 arrival in the Americas. It's time to stop celebrating it and start celebrating the native cultures that his arrival in the Americas began the process of displacing.