http://dagblog.com/link/indigenous-peoples-day-2017-23659 Comments for "Indigenous Peoples Day 2017" en http://dagblog.com/comment/243754#comment-243754 <a id="comment-243754"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/indigenous-peoples-day-2017-23659">Indigenous Peoples Day 2017</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Everyone's got identity issues; example, guest op-ed @ NYTimes op-ed today:</p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/opinion/christopher-columbus-day-statue.html">Tearing Down Statues of Columbus Also Tears Down My History</a></p> <p>By JOHN M. VIOLA</p> <p><em>For immigrants often caricatured as subhuman, Columbus was a figure to rally around.</em></p> <p>One of the few reasons I'd love to live a long time is to see this country have so many complexly mixed heritage people that no one had any personal interest in historical figures. I.E., an Italian-Afro-Irish-Chinese-Hmong-Ukrainian-Cherokee-American will have as much interest in the good Columbus and the bad Columbus as everyone else. Pride in heritage should be about what your ancestors did, not where they came from, and what genetic makeup they had.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:12:13 +0000 artappraiser comment 243754 at http://dagblog.com