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Headline: Seattle School Board replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Best reader comment was this (especially the final 2 sentences): What, exactly is an indigenous person? There were waves of prehistoric people who came to North America and they all didnt live together peacefully. Which of these waves is the indigenous one? The second one that wiped out the first? The third that wiped out the second? How about the ones that supposedly hunted the wooly mammoth to extinction? Are those the ones we celebrate? Do we celebrate the French in the former Louisiana Territory over the English? Do we celebrate the English over the Chinese who came here in the 1800s?...Or...is everyone who came here before the Europeans somehow more worthy, more pure...GOD HELP THESE PEOPLE IN SEATTLE. It must be terrible to be so filled with self loathing and so wracked with guilt.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:14:16 +0000

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