Recently, there’s been some commotion about Columbus Day. Some think nothing of it, others believe Christopher Columbus doesn’t deserve the honor of being credited for “discovering” America. The holiday on the second Monday of October, Columbus Day, is seen as both a celebration of colonialism and as an offense to indigenous people. People celebrate him for opening up the Americas to European colonization and blame him for the destruction of the native people who’d previously occupied the land that he “found”. On this year’s Columbus Day, the statues of him in Detroit, Michigan and in Boston, Massachusetts were both vandalized, one with the statement, “black lives matter”, and one with an axe to the head. The topic is quite controversial and
