The Seattle City Council has a track record of creating unnecessary tension. Yesterday, council members managed to do it once again by pitting the heritage of Italian Americans against that of indigenous people.
Seattle’s Italian American community has promised to respond to the City Council’s vote changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. By replacing Columbus Day rather than creating a new day for Indigenous People’s Day, Italian Americans—correctly—perceive the Council’s action as a deliberate slight to, well, Italians. A spokesman for Seattle’s Italian American community said,
“We think it’s a real slap in the face to all of those of Italian heritage… The problem is that the mayor and the City Council couldn’t arbitrate and find an equitable solution so that Columbus Day, which is essentially Italian Heritage Day, wasn’t thrown under the bus.”
Speaking before the Council prior to its unanimous vote, Italian American Frank Collucio said that indigenous people “deserve a day.” However, “by the resolution you say to all Italian Americans that the City of Seattle no longer deems your heritage or your legacy worthy of recognition.”
Clearly, based on the Council’s unanimous vote, Collucio’s statement made no impression on members. It is also clear, from the Council’s unanimous vote, that members took no consideration of the fact that the state Legislature has already passed a bill creating a day for indigenous people. During the 2014 legislative session, the Legislature recognized the day after Thanksgiving as Native American Heritage Day.
According to MyNorthwest.com, the Seattle’s Italian American community is planning “a large-scale effort to preserve Columbus Day and keep it at the forefront.”
Start with the fact that Columbus Day is on October 12th… not on some Monday close by! and I love the fact that “American Indian day” is the day after Thanksgiving.
The problem with liberals is that they DON’T THINK. Period. They get these warm and fuzzy big ideas in their pea brains and run with them. Then when the ideas blow up in their faces, like this one, they either ignore it or call racism. Common sense is a beautiful thing, Seattle Council. I suggest you find some.
It can”t get any worse…Force their will upon the people … Change everything until you cannot breathe anymore under their oppression…then they have you where they want you.
Seattlites, aren’t you getting a bit tired of this politically correct crap? Then end the slide into stupidity and vote ALL of those morons out!
I’m Italian and the only thing that offends me is all the stupid people in King County who vote for these idiots. By the way, I think everybody in King County should have their gas prices hiked way up and leave the rest of the state alone since they’re the ones who control the entire state with their votes for liberals who want to tax us to death. Next on their agenda will be the mayor of Seattle asking for transcripts of sermons from ministers like they’re doing in Houston.
And what about the feelings of Spanish royalists, who had hired Italian mercenaries to pillage and plunder indigenous Americans at gunpoint? Why won’t the Seattle City Council care about them, hm? Why, it’s almost like the city was named for the leader of an indigenous people!