Goodbye Columbus: Human Rights Commission Wants Name Stricken

The Seattle Human Rights Commission is doubling down on its effort to purge Columbus Day from its list of city celebrations, and have it replaced in the Emerald City with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, the commission believes he was up to no good.  In one of 16 “Whereas” clauses to its resolution, the city’s human rights panel declares: “WHEREAS, the Commission recognizes that the celebration of Christopher Columbus and his alleged 1492 discovery of the lands that would later become known as the Americas works to celebrate an era of colonization and dispossession of indigenous peoples’ homelands, as well as the [...]