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👴🏻"Yes, I know this person did horrific things to Black and brown people, but if you don't pretend to honor his memory, you are the bad guy here!"🤡
No. It doesn't work like that.
Not for Kirk. Not for Columbus.
There have been *millions* of great Italian Americans. Columbus is not one of them.
And dude didn't even make it to North America! Not to the US. Not to Canada.
Columbus did all his Columbasing in South America and the Caribbean.
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Have a #Columbo Day in honour of #PeterFalk and other actors who portrayed memorable #TVDetectives. Many of the American holidays are essentially mythological.
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thanks for how you said this!
@mekkaokereke All of our flawed heroes, even with FDR, we need to do better, to improve, to fix what was left so terribly broken. 🖖🏼♥️
@mekkaokereke It’s so wild to honor a dude who only succeeded by screwing up in a way that was convenient, and who was loathed by his contemporaries.
If other explorers of the time were told he’s the one that gets a big holiday, they’d be like, “THAT asshole?”
@mekkaokereke And he was Wrong! He discovered the winds that would carry him through the Atlantic, but he misjudged the distance. People rejected his ideas not because they believed the Earth was flat, but because they knew China was much further away.
@mekkaokereke "Yeah, let's honor this fucker who was so bad, such a sadistic corrupt jerk that *the kings finally had him arrested*. Oh yeah he also just found America by sheer luck, he and his crew would have died in the middle of the ocean otherwise."
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