President Trump made clear on Sunday that he would not follow the practice of his predecessor to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day Next to Columbus in October, accusing the Democrats of degrading the explorer’s legacy while pressing his campaign to restore what he argues that they are American traditional icons.
The Democrat Joe Biden was the first president to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Peoples, issuing a proclamation in 2021 that celebrated “the invaluable contributions and the resilience of indigenous peoples” and recognizes “their inherent sovereignty.”
The proclamation pointed out that the United States “was conceived with a promise of equality and opportunity for all people”, but that promise “we have never completed.
Trump on Sunday used a publication on social networks on Sunday to declare: “I am bringing Columbus’s day back from the ashes.” He said in his social site that “the Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation and all the Italians who love him so much.”
He said that “Columbus is restoring under the same rules, dates and locations, as he has done during all the previous decades!”
The federal holiday, on the second Monday of October, was still known as Columbus Day that converted the Biden term, but also the day of the indigenous peoples of the axis. A federal holiday remained and the former president made no change in how or when Columbus Day is recognized in his proclamation, in which he directed the United States flag in all public buildings “in honor of our diverse history and indigenous peoples who contribute to shape this nation.”
Biden’s recognition had long been a goal of activists who wanted to change the approach to commemorate Columbus’s navigation to the Americas to their successors and their successors’ Exploitation of indigenous peoples He found herself there.
Several years before the proclamation of Biden, some local states and governments, including Columbus, Ohio” Los AngelesSan Francisco, Seattle, Denver and Austin, Texas, had chosen to recognize the Day of Indigenous Peoples on Columbus Day as a way of recognizing victims or colonialism. New York is among many places where both names of federal holidays, and Governor Kathy Hocul recognize for the first time the day of indigenous peoples in 2021, while New York City continues to celebrate the largest parade of Columbus Day in the country.
He thought Mr. Trump has long opposed the country’s history through a lens of diversity And oppression, the holidays that seek to restore its primacy were added to the calendar as a wink to the growing diversity of the country.
Columbus’s expeditions never touched the American continent, much less any land that is now part of the United States. But Genoa’s native was increasingly commemorated in the United States as Italian Immigrants mass the country and politicians sought to win their support.
In fact, it was the lynching of 11 Italian-American immigrants in New Orleans in 1891 that led to the first celebration of Columbus Day in the United States, led the following year by President Benjamin Harrison. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934.
Trump has long complained that the Democrats prove the statues of Columbus, a complaint that presented again in Sunday’s publication. In 2017, he spoke against a review of the 76 -foot explorer statue New York Columbus Circle That then Bill of Blasio had ordered. It remains in place today, but other statues have a disfigured or demolished leg.
In 2020, the Trump administration paid to restore a Columbus statue in Baltimore That was thrown in the port duration against George Floyd’s police murder in Minneapolis. The boxes of other Columbus statues throughout the country were low tasks or in the process of eliminating, and many of them were destroyed after the renewed The lives of blacks are important The protests beg.