Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, as an official holiday.
Read More at Wikipedia ›More than a century ago, America celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage of discovery by hosting an enormous world's fair on the shores of Lake Michigan.
This "World's Columbian Exposition" featured statues of the great explorer, replicas of his three ships, and commemorative stamps and coins. Because Columbus Day was a patriotic holiday--it marked the opening chapter in American history--the newly written Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in schools on October 12, 1892.Nowadays, however, an embarrassed, guilty silence descends on the nation each Columbus Day. We've been taught that Columbus opened the way for rapacious European settlers to unleash a stream of horrors on a virgin continent: slavery, racism, warfare, epidemic, and the cruel oppression of Indians.This modern view of Columbus represents an unjust attack upon both our country and the civilization that made it possible. Western civilization did not originate slavery, racism, warfare, or diseas...The Democratic Party moved a step closer to embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement as its own with the top campaign arm for House Democrats sending around a petit...
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