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Columbus Day Thanksgiving: Reminders of Euro-America's Historic Brutality Against People of Color --

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Year by year, there are myriad examples that should serve as blatant reminders as to exactly what the United States condones, supports, and is more than capable of--the Columbus Day holiday is one of those stark reminders. This federally recognized US holiday honors the life of one of the most reprehensible human beings this world has ever known. Cristobal Colon, more popularly known as Christopher Columbus, and the men he led--raped, murdered, and mutilated countless indigenous men, women and children from what is now known as the "Americas". These facts are methodically hidden from tens of millions of obsequious Americans. America is a champion in the game of propagandizing the lives of people and events that, in essence, were responsible for everything from genocide, theft of land, to the mass enslavement of Africans.
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