Goodbye Columbus, Hello Kat

Happy Columbus Day

or maybe I should say 

Happy Indigenous People Day.

Apparently the day 

designed to honor Columbus is being 

reinvented, redesigned, and re-casted.

Columbus's "hero status" is being revoked 

to "villan status"…

forcing him to sail off into the sunset...

off the edge of a flat world.

Hey, just because Columbus 

wasn't the first to discover America,

the Vikings did 500 years earlier…nanny-nanny-boo-boo

thought he landed in East Asia,

which was actually the Bahamas, mon

didn't proved the World was round,

everybody knew that already, Chris

enslaved Indians and introduced disease...

let us NOT forget...

"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue"

in a rickety, rustic, wooden boat,

without a GPS.

Think about it…

could you do that?

Say nothing about judging a historical event 

using the values of today 

rather than the values that existed almost 500 years ago.

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Indigenous People Day may be more politically correct

 but…

may I propose another idea?

You could honor a 7 year blogger….Kat.

After all, it is my birthday today

and I would be wiling to share it with 

any, and all 

indigenous, meticulous, or mischievous people.

AND

 give people a 3-day weekend 

and sales bargains galore.

Elementary school kids 

would just have to learn a new rhyme….

"In 2007….Kat sailed the bloggership maiden."

Anywhooo.....

Some are also saying that 

Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day,

highlights Western imperialism 

and the conquest of people of color. 

Woah...stop right there…..

do NOT think about changing Thanksgiving...

no one, and I mean NO ONE 

messes with my 

tryptophan turkey high 

and pumping pie.