So, some of us (myself included) have the day off on Monday to celebrate Christopher Columbus. I remember when I was young, we were told by school teachers that Columbus discovered the new world, lived in peace with the natives (so...if people were already here, how was it a discovery? I asked too many questions, even at a young age), and was a great hero. We spent the day making weird arts and crafts to honor him, sometimes watched some videos, and in general, got to basically get a day off from doing any real school work, on top of the day we usually got off for Columbus Day, anyway. We thought it was pretty sweet - less work for us. Though I was terrible with art stuff (still am), so maybe that wasn't that great. I digress.
As I got older, I started reading more, and found myself not really all that crazy about that Columbus cat. At some point, I realized we were basically celebrating the beginning of the genocide of the American Indian.
