Sailing the Ocean Blue Two

A perfect capper to the previous post, via John Oliver.

"Trafficked and robbed and triumphed home again"

This is what we should be celebrating today.

And this is the reason.

There's also this to think about.

That would be rude, to say the least. 

Fortunately, some cities and states are changing their thinking on this holiday, and for good reason. 

And then there are always asshats who are dragging their feet and missing the point. (I usually don't link to Townhall, but I couldn't resist sharing this columnist's colossal stupidity. There isn't enough cheese in Wisconsin to go along with this whine.)

This poem, found here, sums it up very well. 

"You Say, Columbus With His Argosies"

You say, Columbus with his argosies

Who rash and greedy took the screaming main

And vanished out before the hurricane

Into the sunset after merchandise,

Then under western palms with simple eyes

Trafficked and robbed and triumphed home again:

You say this is the glory of the brain

And human life no other use than this?

I then do answering say to you: The line

Of wizards and of saviours, keeping trust

In that which made them pensive and divine,

Passes before us like a cloud of dust.

What were they? Actors, ill and mad with wine,

And all their language babble and disgust.

~Trumbull Stickney

So: Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!