President Donald Trump clearly indicated on Sunday that he would not follow the practice of his predecessor to recognize Aboriginal peoples day In addition to Columbus Day in October, accusing the Democrats of denigrating the inheritance of the explorer when he had pressed his campaign to restore What he supports are traditional American icons.
Democrat Joe Biden was the first president To mark the day of indigenous peoples, emitting a proclamation In 2021, which celebrated “the invaluable contributions and the resilience of the indigenous peoples” and recognized “their inherent sovereignty”.
The proclamation noted that America “was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for everyone”, but this promise “we have never lived fully.
Trump used an article on social networks on Sunday to declare: “I bring back columbus day ashes.” He said on his social site of truth that “the Democrats have done everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation and all the Italians who love him so much.”
The federal holiday, the second Monday in October, was still known as Columbus Day during Biden's mandate, but also as the day of Aboriginal peoples. This was a long-standing goal of activists who wanted to pay the attention of the commemoration of columbus navigation to the Americas towards his exploitation and his successors of the Aboriginal people whom he met there.
Although Trump has long opposed to telling the story of the country through an objective of diversity and oppression, the holidays he seeks to restore to his primacy has been added to the calendar as a nod to the growing diversity of the country.
The expeditions of Columbus have never touched the North American continent, not to mention all terrain that is now part of the United States. But the native of Genoa has become more and more commemorated in the United States while Italian immigrants flocked to the country and politicians sought to gain their support.
Indeed, it was the lynching of 11 Italian-American immigrants in New Orleans in 1891 that led to the first celebration of Columbus day in the United States, led the following year by President Benjamin Harrison. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Designated Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934.
Trump has long complained that Democrats have demolished the statues of Columbus, a complaint he filed in Sunday's position. In 2017, he spoke out against an examination of the statue of the 76 -foot explorer in the New York Columbus circle that the mayor of Bill de Blasio had ordered. It remains in place today, but other statues have been degraded or demolished.
In 2020, Trump's administration paid to restore a statue of Columbus in Baltimore which was thrown into the port during demonstrations against police murder George Floyd in Minneapolis.
