A politically-correct campaign to end observation of Columbus Day has won at Brown University, where the holiday will be replaced by a three-day “Fall Weekend”.
The new holiday will still take place on Columbus Day. Officials at the Ivy-League university in Providence, RI decided to not move the date out of consideration to faculty and staff who may have already had plans scheduled for that time.
Sophomore Reiko Koyama, who led the name-change charge, said, “I’m very pleased. It’s been a long time coming.”Koyama offered a resolution to university officials last year calling for the change because Christopher Columbus‘ allegedly violent treatment of Beringians he encountered was inconsistent with Brown’s values. A univesrity newspaper polled students last month and found that two-thirds of the students supported the effort.
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It would be interesting to know just who is this Reiko Koyama is, the name sounds like this creature is a foreign student on a visa, (perhaps from the middle east) and I could only wonder if he or she is a provocateur, an “organizer”.
His or her self-righteous proclamation of being pleased, “ it’s been a long time coming” sounds like an Obama type Marxist statement. This change is based on Columbus’s alleged “violent treatment “ of the Indians but nothing of substance.
It would also be informative to know who Koyama’s people are so they could be examined for their culture and behavior.
Of course the “Indians” were a people of goodness, love and kindness!!
Not likely Koyama, you vile creep. Brown University founded in 1764 has a history department and never know this historic piece of information, until you arrived.
Columbus’s alleged treatment is not in keeping with Brown University’s Values?
What values could this institution of elite rich liberals have with the likes of you as a student.
Now we see if the other rich elite Ivy League schools follow suit, it would be no surprise.
This is why you need “World Solutrean Day”, and our “Hail Columbus Day” on TRP! They are not “native Amerikans” but Solutreans who stole the land from our people and murdered them! We Were Here First! One People One Culture, One Race!
Brown is obviously racist against Italians. For such smart people they don’t even know who were the real native americans. Folks, save your money and don’t send your kids to this place.
Let them try this in NYC! The Italian-American community will not stand for this. The Columbus Citizens Foundation, the sponsors of the great Columbus Day Parade, won’t stand for it. Brown is Podunk. New York, the media capital of the world, is not.
George: Don’t kid yourself. When it comes to the mulinyan, the gumbas are the first to fold.
Not to start an argument, but georgetheatheist should know that rhode Island has a huge number of Italians, I know because I am a native, and Italian. Half the state is Roman Catholic, and I would dare say that there is just as large a percentage of Italians in RI as NY City. Moreover, Brown University was founded as a Baptist University, as odd as that is.
I listened to some of the shortwave show for the first time last night… very interesting, and entertaining. I have to ask, one of the hosts, sorry not sure witch one, sounds a lot like Gerald Celente. The sound of his voice, his tone, his humor and candor — dead ringer!
Just wondering if it is him??? If not, you should get him on your show.
That would be Frank from Queens…. and yes, when I heard Celente for the first time, I thought it was someone doing a Frank from Queens impersonation.
-Admin.
Christopher Columbus Explorer Born: 1451 Birthplace: Genoa, Italy
Christobal COLON is NOT from the fruit of the tree of Italy. He was SPANISH. Another form of European thievery!
Christophoro Columbo was a Genoa who sailed for Iberia. Just a John Cabot was Giovani Caboto and he sailed for England. The historical irony here, is that the Iberians whom Columbus sailed for and landed San Salvador was merely reclaiming Great Solutrea that had been stolen by the Beringians and the Iberia was where the Solutrean Culture and nation originated from! Hey, Alley Oop it’s spelled Goombahs, a derogatory term, you should use Paisans and it is mulanyans, jerk!
Frank: It’s spelled vafancullo!
It seems intellectually dishonest for Reiko Koyama to lobby for the dissolution of Columbus Day without acknowledging the evil proclivities of his/her own culture.
I think we should be even more politically and historically correct by changing Hiroshima Day to World Wide Saviors Day!