The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Sunday his intention to “recover” the Columbus daywhich is celebrated uninterruptedly in the United States at the federal level on the second Monday of October since 1971, after “the attempts of Democrats to destroy Christopher Columbus.”
“I’m going to recover Columbus Day among their ashes. Democrats have done everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbushis reputation, and all the Italians who want it so much, “he said in reference to the tradition of the Italo-American community to celebrate the date.
It has also referred to the actions of indigenous activists and the denunciation of colonialism that “They have shot their statues To impose your position Woke Or, worse, nothing at all. “
“Now you will be happy because Cristóbal will have an important return. Cristóbal Colón’s day with the same standards, dates and locations which he has had for many decades, “he added.
The ‘Columbus Day’ has been celebrated at the federal level since 1971 after decades of claims mainly from the Italo-American community that remembered death in particular by death by Linchating of Once Ialianos in New Orleans in 1891 during a wave of reason against immigrants.
Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, did not repeal Columbus’s day, although he promoted the celebration of the Indigenous Peoples Day On that same day. On previous occasions Trump has declared defender of the “American way of life that began with Christopher Columbus.”
In recent years and throughout the United States, the legacy of the country’s founders and other historical figures such as Columbus has been questioned in the framework of movement protests ‘Black Lives Matter’ To criticize systematic racism, revived massively after the death of African -American George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis.
Thus, American cities have retired statues and monuments that honored figures from the Confederate states and also statues of Christopher Columbus or the Spanish conqueror Juan de Oñate.
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