Indigenous Peoples Day

Only recently has Indigenous Peoples Day become a familiar word with the general public.  Rooted in humility,  Indigenous People of America came up with the term to replace the monarchist Columbus Day celebration, which is not something that somebody can just get over.  Would you get over a national holiday that is seen as something good - when the good people see is the genocide of your very family?  Morally speaking, that is not a reason to celebrate.

Morally speaking, that is like a national holiday to celebrate all the people killing cops.  It is like celebrating the day Jews burnt in Auschwitz.  Would you do that?  So why would you celebrate the man who brought upon so much genocide?

Now looking at the other side of this coin, on this day, Indigenous People whose family members have survived and continue to survive the ongoing genocide, do have something to celebrate:  survival.

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Somehow through it all, if they had to leave their ancestral ways behind, if they had to be exiled, ancestors of those who exist today, have survived and those who are still working at it are still surviving.  Now that is a reason to celebrate.

So in response to the ignorance of those who refuse to change policy on such a murderous holiday, Indigenous People have decided to find our own silver lining and voice, and utilize the free holiday from work & school - otherwise known as colonization - to celebrate the victory of survival from these horrible atrocities that plague society.

When these preachers speak of repentance, why don't they incorporate the part whee agents of genocide and industrialization need to repent for the damage they committed against all life?