Oct 8, 2006
What is Columbus Day doing to "Americans"?
A new article by Scott Richard Lyons of St. John Fisher College:
"What Columbus Day does to Americans?"
Excerpt:
Indeed, one might observe that these Columbian imperialist values are diametrically opposed to the more Jeffersonian American values of democracy, liberty and equality.... There is no room for American Indian history, the past that we're still living today, in official commemorations of Columbus. The same can be said for Americans of any ethnic persuasion who detest imperialism, whether in the Americas, Vietnam, or the Middle East.
"What Columbus Day does to Americans?"
Excerpt:
Indeed, one might observe that these Columbian imperialist values are diametrically opposed to the more Jeffersonian American values of democracy, liberty and equality.... There is no room for American Indian history, the past that we're still living today, in official commemorations of Columbus. The same can be said for Americans of any ethnic persuasion who detest imperialism, whether in the Americas, Vietnam, or the Middle East.