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valerief

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1. I heard FDR created it to get the Italian vote.

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Mon Oct 8, 2012, 12:50 PM

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Is Columbus Day a celebration of genocide? [View all] Whovian Oct 2012 OP

I heard FDR created it to get the Italian vote. valerief Oct 2012 #1

They could also call it "Beringia Land Bridge Immigration Day" MADem Oct 2012 #6

Oh, heck, we're all citizens of the world. Nations are just tax bases for the PTB valerief Oct 2012 #13

I do agree that we are all citizens of the world. I regard nations as communities, some nicer than MADem Oct 2012 #14

"The Sopranos" did an amusing episode on that very topic. MADem Oct 2012 #2

OMG! I did not know that. Talk about irony. Whovian Oct 2012 #3

Well, our native anscestors immigrated here, too--on foot, over a land bridge! MADem Oct 2012 #7

I'm kind of a history nut when it comes to the upaloopa Oct 2012 #4

Well, someboby had to discover the Americas. Would history have been any different? demosincebirth Oct 2012 #5

Actually, the "Native People" (who aren't really native, either--they just got here first) are the MADem Oct 2012 #8

It had already been discovered. Just not by Europeans. Whovian Oct 2012 #9

I don't mean to tick anyone off, but... B Stieg Oct 2012 #10

I agree with you, but some will stand their ground to the death. Figuratively speaking, that is demosincebirth Oct 2012 #12

It's always problematic when one looks at the decisions of one's forebears through the lens of one's MADem Oct 2012 #15

all in the name of the catholic religion. way to go, Columbus nt msongs Oct 2012 #11

Properly observe the beginning of a genocide Trenton Oct 2012 #16

Welcome to DU. Will check out your link. Whovian Oct 2012 #17

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