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发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: USANews
标 题: 巴尔的摩要把哥伦布节改成印第安人节
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 25 00:14:57 2016, 美东)
City Council moves to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples and
Italian-Americans Day
Baltimore City Council proposal to strip Christopher Columbus of his annual
holiday and rename the day for indigenous people has sparked a community
debate.
Students at City Neighbors Charter School in Northeast Baltimore petitioned
the council to rename the holiday. They said they were tired of "mistruths"
about the controversial Italian explorer, who did not discover the land now
known as the United States of America but is linked to the start of the
transatlantic slave trade.
Yet in places such as Little Italy, the day is less about Columbus and more
about celebrating Italian-Americans, their culture and their efforts to
assimilate over generations.
The council plans to take a final vote on the legislation Dec. 5. Joseph
Benjamin Gardella hopes officials first stop to consider what might be lost. | D***r
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