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Flagrancy to Reason

"Amerindian Day: columbus day again? Already? That much maligned founder of the Atlantic trade slave 'did no evil'. Really!

update: It's remotely possible, in light of some disagreement as to whether Columbus did no evil, that I made some reasonable comments. Probably not:

The designation of national holidays is a political process, it is in its very nature a political game. When it was declared a federal public holiday in 1968 it was already proven - seven years previous - that the Vikings had been here long before Columbus, nevermind that the bering straight was established as the route for the earliest American explorers. Johnson could have named it 'American explorer day' or some such."