Is Columbus Day a celebration of genocide?

[Trenton]

16. Properly observe the beginning of a genocide

Working with indigenous people around the world whose rights are still trampled upon every day make the celebration of Columbus Day even more odious. Let's take the moment to consider that there were hundreds of millions of people living in the Americas (some in cities that were the largest and cleanest in the world) who would eventually succumb to disease, slavery, warfare or outright murder at the hands of European colonizers.

The transgressions against indigenous people worldwide continue to this day. We've started a petition on Change.org to urge the U.N. to hold true to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.