Reclaim, ReEducate,Rebuild

The Columbus Day celebrations are the dysfunctional rituals of a conqueror society. America celebrates Columbus Day because Columbus was a "winner. During the past several centuries, the apologists for Europes conquest of the New World have gladly told graphic tales of human sacrifice, cannibalism, torture of captives and other native atrocities. 'The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and his successors resulted in complete genocide.'
We should cease to celebrate Columbus Day, first because it is ludicrous to say a place already inhabited can be "discovered"; second because Columbus failed to add anything new to the pool of European knowledge; and finally because the celebration of Columbus sends a message of hostility to the very peoples who have paid most dearly to establish the great nation of which we are a part.The American Heritage Dictionary defines "discover" as "To be the first to find, learn of, or observe." How can anyone discover a place which tens of millions already know about? To assert that this can be done is to say that those inhabitants are not human. And in fact this is exactly the attitude many Europeans and early Euroamerican displayed toward indigenous Americans. We know, of course, that this is not true, but to perpetuate the idea of a Columbian discovery is to continue to assign a non-human status to those 145 million people and their descendants.
WE DEMAND THAT THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO; THE GOVERNOR; AND THE 128TH OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY stop the celebration of Columbus Day on October 11; and the destruction of the replica of the Santa Maria located in downtown Columbus.