Changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day is the ONLY right thing to do. It is way over due and should serve as the opening to a long and rewarding reconstruction of our national self image. And so, to help the City Council and the Mayor, and all those right wing radio talk show fans who will doubtless be complaining, I offer these words. Columbus I will not celebrate Columbus no I will turn the other way I will not celebrate Columbus there was no honor on that day on that day when the brave sea captain, so they say set out to prove that the world was round yeah but really he was looking out for gold and he would kill for it all for the sake of the European crown and they found a gentle people on the shore line a gentle people, they could turn them into slaves and they cut down those people just as fast as they could they didnt even give them time to dig their own graves I will not celebrate Columbus I will not give honor to his name I will not celebrate Columbus it is a day of infamy and shame and the flood gates were opened, and history rolled and the numbers were uncountable, the numbers were extreme every dead one died for a hawk’s bell full of gold discarded in the margins of the American Dream and I know it was a long time ago I know it’s hard to remember, but it’s harder still to forget living in the shadows of a holocaust maybe some day will organize and rise to be a threat I will not celebrate Columbus I will not give honor to a killer and a thief I will not celebrate Columbus I will not participate in absurdity’s belief there is a statue out by city hall a soldier with his uniform, his helmet and his gun Chivington’s army at Sand Creek women and children and what have they done they have paved their paradise with money and blood they have built their greatness on the backs of the dead and when they stand before the gates of their arrival there will be a price on their head I will not celebrate Columbus I will see him deconstructed in the naked light I will not celebrate Columbus I will not celebrate until we make things right let’s take this upside down world and turn it over let’s make sense of this senselessness let’s build a house that we can all live in together let’s clean up this mess I will not celebrate Columbus I will not celebrate Columbus I will not celebrate Columbus Columbus
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:52:01 +0000
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