Kamala Harris Celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day
... while Tony Soprano celebrates Columbus Day. Yet there exists an even-handed compromise name for the holiday. But nobody wants to hear about it.
I’m a big fan of optimizing America’s holiday schedule to fit America’s weather so that you can enjoy more holidays outdoors. For example, Presidents’ Day in February is pretty weak. And Martin Luther King Day in mid-January is close to useless in the northern 70% of the country: we’ve already had four official holidays over the previous eight weeks before MLK Day, and mid-January is usually about the coldest time of the year. Juneteenth, in contrast, is a nice day to play golf on just about the longest day of the year.
Columbus Day, around October 12th, is usually about the last time each year in which you can reasonably hope for decent weather in the north. In places like Chicago, fall colors are at their peak then. And Columbus Day is nicely spaced out in-between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.
But Columbus Day seems to be fading as a day-off due to the growth of anti-white sentiment.
Perhaps the recent claim by a TV documentary that Columbus had some Jewish ancestry, a notion that has been around for a long time (I heard it in the early 1990s), will moderate anti-Columbus hate for fear of getting one labeled anti-Semitic? (But, keep in mind, that many scientists are far from convinced by what evidence has been revealed so far about this assertion that Columbus was of Spanish and Sephardic ancestry.)
Kamala Harris, not surprisingly, released a video clip today celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
(By the way, has anybody figured out what Kamala’s remarkably uncool accent is? I’m guessing it’s primarily Canadian with hints of Tamil and black sorority girl.)
As I’ve pointed out before, Kamala is a big fan of 1960s campus radical holidays like Kwaanza. Back in 2019, when Kamala assumed she could ride the tidal wave of the Great Awokening to the White House, she was more over-the-top in her anti-Columbus Day hate.
There has, however, long existed a moderate, even-handed compromise suggestion for what to call the holiday commemorating October 12, 1492, which is perhaps the single most important known date in human history, rather than the equally one-sided names “Columbus Day” or “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” But the Great Awokening was not about learning to live sensibly with diverse peoples, it was about crushing your foes. So, it says much about the temper of the times that practically nobody has proposed this compromise (which I will unveil after the paywall):
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