tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-10-28:1100478 franklanguage franklanguage 2016-10-10T13:04:04Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-10-28:1100478:172205 2016-10-10T13:03:13Z 2016-10-10T13:04:04Z public 0 Some are now calling Columbus Day "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day">Indigenous Peoples Day</a>," but to me it will always be "Genocide day," as in this Kurt Vonnegut quote from <i>Breakfast of Champions</i>:<br /><br />"[T]eachers of children in the United States of America <br />wrote this date on blackboards everywhere and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy:<br /><br /><center><b>1492</b></center><br /><br />"The teachers told the children this was when America <br />had been discovered by human beings.<br /><br />"Actually, millions of human beings were living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. <br />That was simply the date when sea pirates came to cheat and rob and kill them."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=franklanguage&ditemid=172205" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments