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Quote Originally Posted by dankrutka View Post
If you understand the history around Columbus then changing Columbus Day is a nonbrainer. Columbus should be taught for his accomplishments, but also for his brutality and greed. He just shouldn't be turned into a hero. The Land Run similarly needs a complex telling, which reenactments rarely lead to.
If you look at my earlier posts, I pretty much agree with your final post. However, when people start to propose to change or eliminate American institutions, it usually boils down to concern over someone being "offended" or more far left self-loathing. The poster proposed doing away with 89er day which I totally oppose. If we want to make it a day to more stress the actual history, then fine. Elimination is to reduce the unique way our state came about for the sake of being PC.