This is the time of the year when the crazies start coming out of the woodwork. You have ghosts and ghouls, witches and goblins, and, of course, P.C. liberals.
The politically correct crowd appears about this time every year, trying to take "Christ" out of Christmas and attempting to rid all holidays of their true meanings. This year, the barrage is starting even earlier. An elementary school principal in Massachusetts wants to ban celebrations of fall holidays, such as Columbus Day, because they may be offensive to some.
Here's what the nutty principal had to say: "When we were young, we might have been able to claim ignorance of the atrocities that Christopher Columbus committed against the indigenous peoples. We can no longer do so.... celebrating this particular person is an insult and a slight to the people he annihilated."
I thought this had to be a joke when I read it. But this is real. There are actually warped people who think this way. I just have to laugh at people like that.
I love Columbus Day. But, personally, I think it should be celebrated on Oct. 19 because that's the day this Christopher discovered America! That should be a national holiday, don't you think?
This crazy principal goes on to say we need to ban celebrating Halloween and Thanksgiving, too. I understand the concern about Halloween because of its connection to witchcraft, but when did it become offensive to give thanks? The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 to give thanks for the harvest reaped by the Plymouth colony after a harsh winter. It became a national holiday in 1863. It's just as important for the country to give thanks now as it was back then. We are a blessed nation.
People need to lighten up, especially with all this political correctness. If a holiday "offends" you, don't celebrate it. But don't ruin it for the rest of us. I'm going to celebrate anyway! So Happy Columbus Day, Happy Halloween and Merry CHRISTmas!!
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