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Goodbye Columbus - America Apologizes for its Own Existence

Posted: 17 Oct 2009 06:53 PM PDT

Last week was Columbus Day, once considered a major event, the holiday has been
undergoing a decline in recent years. Columbus Day parades have met with
protests and some have been deemphasized or outright
eliminated.

In California, Columbus Day
become Indigenous People's Day, which sounds vaguely like a Marxist
terrorist group's holiday. But while it's tempting to put that down to
California's political correctness, in South Dakota, Columbus Day became
Native American Day, and that is a trend that other states are likely to
follow, as protests mounted under the aegis of La Raza (The Race- the
Hispanic KKK) continue to grow. And while none have thus far followed
Venezuela's lead in renaming it Día de la Resistencia Indígena, or Day of
Indigenous Resistance, which indeed is a Marxist terrorist group's
holiday, the whole notion of celebrating the discovery of America has come
to be seen as somehow shameful and worst of all, politically incorrect.

About the only factor still keeping Columbus on the calendar in
places like New York is his role in the Italian-American community, which
have made many Mayors and Governors reluctant to toss the great explorer
completely overboard. But while Ferdinand and Isabella may have brought
Columbus back in chains, modern day political correctness banishes him to
the darkened dungeon of non-personhood, erasing him from history and
replacing him with a note reading, "I'm Sorry We Ever Discovered
America."

But this is about more than one single 15th century
Genoan with a complicated life who was neither a monster nor a saint. It
is about whether America really has any right to exist at all. Is there
any argument against celebrating Columbus Day, that cannot similarly be
applied to celebrating the 4th of July?

If Columbus is to be
stricken from American history books in favor of ideological thugs like
Malcolm X or Caesar Chavez, who may be getting his own national holiday
soon courtesy of Barack Obama (and for bonus points see if you can guess
which regime's flag, Chavez's flag on the left most resembles), then
America itself must soon follow. If Columbus' crimes are that he enabled
European settlement of America and slavery-- those same charges can easily
be put at America's door as well. And if the settlement of non-Indians in
North America is illegitimate, then any national state they created is
inherently illegitimate as well.

It
is of course easier to hack away at a nation's soul by beginning with the
lower branches. Columbus is an easier target than America itself, though
La Raza of course considers both colonialist and illegitimate. But
Americans are less likely to protest over the slow banishing of Columbus
to the politically correct Gulag of history, than over banishing America
itself, which after all was named after another one of those colonialist
explorers, Amerigo Vespucci. And so first they came for Columbus Day and
then for the Fourth of July.

The battles being fought over Columbus
Day foreshadow the battles that will one day be fought over the 4th of
July. And as Columbus Day joins the list of banned holidays in more and
more cities and states across America, one day there may not be a 4th of
July, just a day to remember the atrocities of the colonists against the
indigenous inhabitants of North America, as we will be treated to PBS
documentaries comparing George Washington to Hitler and calling the
Declaration of Independence a colonialist mandate. Such documentaries of
course already exist, they just haven't gone mainstream. Yet.

We
celebrate Columbus Day and the 4th of July because history is written by
the winners. Had the Aztecs, the Mayans or the Iroquois Confederation
developed the necessary technology, skills and motivation to cross the
Atlantic and begin colonizing Europe, the fate of its native inhabitants
would have doubtlessly been just as ugly, if not uglier. There are
naturally different perspectives on history based on which side you happen
to be on.

To Americans, the Alamo is a shining moment of heroism.
To the Mexicans who were themselves the inheritors of a colonialist empire
far more ruthless than anything to be found in North America, the entire
war represents an American plot to conquer Mexican territory. And neither
side is altogether wrong, but choosing which version of history to go by
is the difference between whether you are an American or a Mexican. A
nation's mythology, its paragons and heroes, its founding legends and
great deeds, are its soul. To replace them with another culture's
perspective on its history is to kill that soul.

And
that is the ultimate goal of political correctness, to kill America's
soul. To stick George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, John Smith,
James Bowie, Paul Revere, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin and all the rest on a
shelf in a back room somewhere, and replace them with timelier Marxist and
liberal heroes. Move over Columbus, Caesar Chavez needs this space. Forget
Davy Crockett, the heroic General Santa Ana who was caught fleeing dressed
as a woman will now be our hero for his resistance to colonialist
imperialism. No more American heroes need apply. Followed of course by no
more America.

This is how it all begins. Probably the final
bit of politically correct lunacy is a headline in the Columbus Dispatch
about the Columbus Day festival in the city of Columbus, Ohio. It reads,
"Italian Festival honors controversial explorer with its own Columbus Day
parade". Once the great discover of America, Columbus is now called
"controversial" by a newspaper named after him, in a city named after him.

Can the day when USA Today has a headline reading, "Some cities
still plan controversial 4th of July celebration of American independence"
be far behind?