[Magdalen] Indigenous People Day.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Your point is well taken.  I would be happy to eliminate Columbus day
altogether, not to think of wiping out the recollection of what he
accomplished, but just not have it as a national day at all.  That makes
perfect sense.  I would rather see the day simply removed, period, than to
have something substituted for it that may or may not be satisfying to
many.  The Decoration Day fiasco is a good case in point.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> for me, no matter what anyone thinks about the 'ravages' of Columbus,
> isolating his holiday and attributing it as a slap in the face to what he
> *did* in the name of  'white Europeans' in/to the new world, seems a bit of
> a stretch. When we can't even deal with what white Americans have done with
> the indigenous people since *we* became a nation (not much honesty and
> repentance their), and to the freed slaves after the civil war (which we
> still deal with, or fail to do so) , it's all up there on the same
> platform, IMO.
>
> Someone had to be and do what Columbus did or we most probably would not
> be here now. History is history. We err more when we forget it than when we
> cherry pick details and treat them as incidents isolated by time and place.
>
>
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
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> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 3:37 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Cc: <Cantor03 at aol.com>
> Subject: [Magdalen] Indigenous People Day.
>
>
>
>> A couple more USA cities have adopted this approach to what has been
>> the USA holiday of Columbus Day (= October 12, Christopher  Columbus
>> birthday).
>>
>> The change over to either "Native American Day" or "Indigenous People
>> Day" seems to be gaining momentum.
>>
>> My personal feeling is that the two observances somehow need to be
>> combined.
>>
>> I remember well the Liturgy at the National Cathedral on October 12,
>> 1992 - the 500th anniversary of the first Columbus voyage - which
>> was billed as "The 500th Anniversary of the Survival of the Native
>> Americans."  It's hard to forget the sound of tom-toms and ankle
>> bells of Indian dancers from the four cardinal points converging on
>> the nave altar.
>>
>> YMMV.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
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