THIS MORNING DONALD TRUMP RELEASED A STATEMENT PROCLAIMING
TODAY COLUMBUS DAY.
NOW, IN THIS PROCLAMATION TRUMP DESCRIBES CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAS WHICH UNFORTUNATELY INCLUDED
MASS KILLINGS, RAPING, AND DISMEMBERING, BUT NONETHELESS,
TRUMP WROTE:
OKAY, THAT WAS A LOT TO UNPACK BUT UNFORTUNATELY, HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT TRUMP'S FACTS MIGHT BE ALTERNATIVE FACTS
AND
ACCORDING TO BARTOLOME DE LA'S CASAS SAYS, WHO PARTICIPATED IN
THESE EXPEDITIONS BUT ACTUALLY BECAME ONE OF THE PRIMARY:
CHRONICLERS OF COLUMBUS AND HE WROTE THAT THIS A MAN OF FAITH
ACTUALLY CARRIED OUT SOME PRETTY FAITHLESS ACTIONS.
HE WROTE:
EVEN ONE OF COLUMBUS'S OWN CREWMEMBERS WROTE AND BRAGGED
ABOUT HIS CRIMES.
HE WROTE:
SO
I WANT TO JUMP IN FOR A
SECOND HERE.
THAT WAS A LOT.
SO FIRST OF ALL, BACK TO TRUMPS STATEMENTS.
HE DID NOT WRITE THOSE, OF COURSE.
HAD WORDS BEYOND THE THIRD GRADERS CAPABILITIES THE
HE ONLY USED TREMENDOUS ONES.
I SAW THAT.
I WAS LIKE IT MUST'VE BEEN AT LIVE STOCK
A TRANSFORMATIVE EVENT.
THAT IS A PHRASE DONALD TRUMP HAS EVER SAID.
THE ONLY THING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME IN HIS STATEMENT THAT
WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN BY STEPHEN MILLER WHO IS GETTING
WHISPERINGS FROM BANNON AND HIS EAR, BUT WHEN HE TALKS
ABOUT THE PERMANENT ARRIVAL OF EUROPEANS TO THE AMERICAS.
THAT IS LIKE DOG WHISTLING, ALL RIGHT, I'M HERE FOR YOU,
I'M CALLING FOR YOU, WE HAVE EUROPEAN ROOTS AND THINGS
LIKE THAT.
THAT IS WHY HE IS CALLING FOR THEIR DOCTOR AND THERE'S A
COLOR TO THE DIVERSE MAKEUP OF THIS NATION, HE USED THE
WORD DIVERSE BUT IF YOU LOOK TO THE REST OF THAT
PROCLAMATION, THINGS THAT WERE NECESSARILY QUOTED IN THEIR
THEY GO OFF ON A TANGENT ABOUT ITALIAN AMERICANS AND THE
DIVERSITY THAT THEY SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE LAUDING IS A
DIVERSITY OF MIXED YOU ARE EUROPEAN INFLUENCES.
THE STATEMENTS ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HAVE BEEN IN SIMILAR
PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT COLUMBUS DAY IN THE PAST, THE ONES THAT
EVERYONE'S COME TO EXPECT, THE VIRUSES CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
MADE A JOURNEY ACROSS THE OCEAN AND WE WOULD BE REMISS IF WE DID
NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE VASTNESS TRAGEDY THAT UNFOLDED
TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LIVED THERE BUT THIS IS VERY MUCH
INCOMPLETE CONCERT WITH THE STRATEGY OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
TO SAY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN GO BACK TO BASES THINGS
RACIST SAY WHICH AS YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED COLUMBUS DAY
WHEN WE JUST HAD COLUMBUS DAY AND WE WERE HAPPY THAT HE
CAME ACROSS THE OCEAN BLUE IN 1492.
I REMEMBER THAT WHEN I WAS IN GRADE SCHOOL AND KNEE PANTS THAT
WE ARE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU THE DEPTH OF THE MASSACRES THAT
COLUMBUS COMMITTED AND EVEN JUST HAVING READ THOSE THINGS, THE
FIRST SET OF QUOTES WERE FROM A MISSIONARY THAT WERE THERE, SO A
MAN OF ACTUAL FAITH AND WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND HE
COULDN'T BELIEVE THE MASSACRES AND THE BUTCHERING THAT WAS
GOING ON AT THAT TIME.
NOT LATER.
AND THAT THE LORD ADMIRAL IS COLUMBUS, AUTHORIZING THE RAPE
OF THE WOMEN THERE OF THE ENTIRE LAND THAT THEY SOUGHT.
SO WHAT TRUMPS TEAM DID HERE WAS THEY DOUBLE DOWN ON COLUMBUS IS
AWESOME, ANY ROT WHITE EUROPEANS HERE WHICH IS GREAT.
THE INTERESTING THEN TO JUST THINGS LITTLE UNFORTUNATE BUT
WHEN YOU SEE SCOPE OF HOW UNFORTUNATE WAS DOCTOR THEN SAY
YEAH, COLUMBUS, HE IS OUR HOMEBOY AND WERE GOING TO
CELEBRATE THAT GUY IS UNBELIEVABLE.
AND LOOK, WHEN I WAS A KID I CELEBRATED COLUMBUS DAY.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS TAUGHT.
REALLY GREAT, HE DISCOVERED AMERICA.
EVEN THEN I THOUGHT IT'S A LITTLE WEIRD, IT SEEMS LIKE
HE MET PEOPLE, SO HOW COULD HE HAVE DISCOVERED THE
CONTINENT IF THERE WERE ALREADY PEOPLE THERE, BUT AS HANNAH'S
ABOUT TO TELL YOU, THERE WASN'T MUCH LESS AFTER HIM.
WHEN THE SPANISH CAME, THEY COMPLETELY DECIMATED THE NATIVE
POPULATIONS.
IN FACT:
NOT TO MENTION ALL THE RATINGS.
HE SOLD NINE AND Ä10 GIRLS INTO SEXUAL SLAVERY.
HE WOULD CUT A PEOPLE'S EARS.
THEY WOULD TIMES SOME OF THE NATIVES TOGETHER AND INSTEAD OF,
IF IT FELT LIKE IT WAS TO CUMBERSOME TO UNTIE THEM,
THEY WOULD JUST CUT OFF THEIR HEADS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
WANT TO UNTIE THEM.
THIS IS JUST ABSOLUTELY DISCUSSING AND THE ATROCITIES OF
THIS AND TO NOT EVEN MENTION ON YOUR STATEMENT AND EVEN
RECOGNIZE THAT SO MANY CITIES AND STATES AROUND THE COUNTRY
NOW ARE SAYING THEY ARE NOT CELEBRATING COLUMBUS DAY
AND IN FACT THEY ARE CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES A DAY
SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY GLARING, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS AN
OVERSIGHT OR SOMETHING, ON PURPOSE.
I DO WANT TO SHOW YOU GUYS THESE CITIES AND THE STATES TO
CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY INSTEAD OF COLUMBUS DAY SO
I APPLAUD THEM ON DOING THAT.
I THINK LOS ANGELES IS NOT ON THERE BUT SHOULD BE
INCLUDED ON THEIR.
THEY RECENTLY SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE CELEBRATING
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY INSTEAD.
WE JUST PASSED A LITTLE WHILE AGO IN LOS ANGELES, SO
THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
THAT JUST RECOGNIZING HISTORY.
NO ONE IS SAYING YOU WIPE IT OFF THE HISTORY BOOKS.
IN FACT, WE SHOULD STUDY AWAY MORE THAN WE DO AND IF YOU'RE
WONDERING ABOUT THE MASS SUICIDES, YOU CAN ARTIE TELL
FROM ALL THE THINGS THE HANNAH SAID BUT COLUMBUS WOULD DEMAND
NOT ONLY OF THE ADULT BUT THE CHILDREN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
GOLD EVERY DAY, BUT THERE WASN'T THAT MUCH GOLD THERE BUT HE WENT
ON THE VOYAGER GREED AND HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY EVERYTHING IN
HIS PATH TO GET THE GOLD AND SO IF THEY COULDN'T GET THE GOLD,
HE WOULD CHOP OFF ONE OF THEIR HANDS AND TIED AROUND THEIR NECK
AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO TRY TO GET IT WITH THE REST OF THEIR
HANDS.
AND THEN THERE WAS THE NONSTOP RATE, ETC.
THE KILLINGS WERE SO DISCRIMINATED ANYWAY, ALL
THEY HAD ASSUMED WAS A SHORT BRUTAL LIFE AS LONG AS
COLUMBUS IS IN CHARGE UNTIL THEY WOULD ONE DAY BE KILLED.
THAT IS PART OF WHY THEY DID MASS SUICIDES.
IT ALMOST CAN'T GET WORSE.
THEY WENT FROM 300,000 PEOPLE DOWN TO 500.
IT'S AS BIG A MASSACRE OR GENOCIDE, CERTAINLY WITHIN
THE STRUGGLE CONTEXT OF HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE, PER
CAPITA, AS ANYONE IS EVER SEEN.
TO CELEBRATE THAT GUY IS JUST A POOR AND I
YOU ARE CELEBRATING A MONSTER AND I THINK, A LOT OF HISTORY
BOOKS CUT ALL OUT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE YOUNGER, THEY CUT
OUT THE ATROCITIES AND THE HORRIBLE ACTS OF A COMMITTED BUT
IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE THOSE AND TO TEACH KIDS THAT DO
TEACH KIDS SOMETIMES ARE UGLY HISTORY AND I KNOW WE DON'T LIKE
TO ADMIT TO THAT AND WE DON'T LIKE TO ADMIT TO THE EAGLEVILLE
THAT WE'VE COMMITTED AS A COUNTRY SOMETIMES ARE AS A
PEOPLE SOMETIMES MADE IT SO IMPORTANT TO DO SO THAT WE
DON'T REPEAT HISTORY AND WE DON'T TRY TO WIPE OUT DIFFERENT
CULTURES LIKE SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE RIGHT NOW.
AND IF YOU LOVED COLUMBUS DAY AS A KID, THIS INFORMATION
IS NOT AN IN FRONT TOWARD YOU PERSONALLY.
I FEEL LIKE WHEN FACTS COME OUT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED REALLY WITH
COLUMBUS, A LOT OF FOLKS WHO SUPPORT THE TRADITIONAL
INTERPRETATION OF COLUMBUS DAY SAY YOU'RE FIGHTING AGAINST ME
PERSONALLY AND THE ANSWER IS NO, THIS IS JUST MORE
INFORMATION BECAUSE IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT THE SIMPLE
DEFINITION OF COLUMBUS COMING OVER HERE TO THE AMERICAS AND
SETTING OF THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPLORATION OF THE NEW WORLD,
THAT IS JUST WAY TOO SIMPLE BECAUSE IT IS VERY OBVIOUS THAT
IT WAS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE BEFORE.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I WENT ON A FUN KNOW ON THIS OTHERWISE
HORRIBLY TRAGIC STORY, I SAYING THAT I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR
OUT OF TEXAS.
I THINK ACTUALLY OF TRUMP MAKES IT TO THE NEXT INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES DAY THAT HE WOULD CALL COLUMBUS DAY.
DON'T SAY SUCH THINGS.
I THINK WE CAN CONVINCE HIM TO GET RID OF COLUMBUS DAY IF WE
JUST EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT THEY CAME OVER ON THE NINA, THE
PINTA, AND THE SANTA MARIA AS UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.