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Lankford proposes changing Columbus Day with Juneteenth Day
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<blockquote data-quote="Dale00" data-source="post: 3389031" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>Columbus was the true change agent whose vision and courage brought Europe to the Americas. His achievement was what precipitated economic linkages between the continents. His accomplishments are worth celebrating. It was a watershed event separating history into the Columbian and Pre-Columbian periods.</p><p></p><p>True - there were bad actors who followed him and harmed native people and overwhelmed cultures on a massive scale but the coming of the Europeans also brought major benefits. There should be no overlooking of the bad actors and European rulers who enabled their deliberate bad actions but it is beyond foolish to claim there were no good things that happened as a result of the coming of the Europeans and that Columbus and all Europeans and their values should be despised.</p><p></p><p>Let the excoriation of Lankford continue ...but first a poem:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dale00, post: 3389031, member: 688"] Columbus was the true change agent whose vision and courage brought Europe to the Americas. His achievement was what precipitated economic linkages between the continents. His accomplishments are worth celebrating. It was a watershed event separating history into the Columbian and Pre-Columbian periods. True - there were bad actors who followed him and harmed native people and overwhelmed cultures on a massive scale but the coming of the Europeans also brought major benefits. There should be no overlooking of the bad actors and European rulers who enabled their deliberate bad actions but it is beyond foolish to claim there were no good things that happened as a result of the coming of the Europeans and that Columbus and all Europeans and their values should be despised. Let the excoriation of Lankford continue ...but first a poem: [/QUOTE]
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