#USA #News #Journal - Ditch Columbus Day and make it Indigenous Peoples' Day!

 

We have celebrated a genocidal murderer for too long. Change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Sign Now Dear friends, The scariest holiday in October is not Halloween, it's Columbus Day; when people in the U.S. celebrate a literal genocidal rapist and violent colonizer who never even came to North America. In Columbus' journal that he kept during his first of four voyages to the Carribean, he described the Indigenous peoples and how he planned to "subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." He would go on to enslave them, rape them, murder them, send them in chains back to Spain, and eventually set in motion their almost total annihilation. Sign the petition demanding that the United States change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day! It is high time that we take the rose colored glasses off, and honor those whose memories are truly worthy: Native Americans. The U.S. has continued the violence Columbus started, stealing lands away from native communities, building destructive oil pipelines on that land, and enacting violence against those who fear and oppose their toxic effects. The United States has a long way to go to make up for the way it has treated Indigenous people, but not honoring a symbol of their genocide is a good start. Some individual states and cities have already made the change, but it needs to be on a national level. Kids in the United States should learn about and honor Native Americans on that day, not a symbol of their oppression! Sign the petition telling Congress to declare that the second Monday in October becomes Indigenous Peoples' Day! Thank you,   Kelsey B. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Honoring Columbus is a slap in the face to Indigenous communities who continue to face violence and oppression from the United States. Sign the petition.