President Donald Trump made clear on Sunday that he would not follow the practice of his predecessor to recognize Day of the indigenous peoples Next to Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of Denigrating the Explorer’s legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore – What argues are traditional American icons.
Democrat Joe Biden was the First president To mark indigenous day, to issue a proclamation In 2021, he celebrated “the indigenous contributions and resilience of the indigenous peoples” and recognize “their inherent sovereignty”.
The proclamation said that America “was conceived with a promise of equality and opportunity for all people”, but that the promise “has never been fully experienced. This is especially true when it comes to defending the rights and dignity of the natives who were here long before the colonization of the Americas began.”
Trump on Sunday used a post on social media to testify: “I am carrying Columbus Day of Ashes.” He realized in his social place that “the Democrats did their best to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation and all the Italians who love him so much.”
The federal holidays, on the second Monday of October, were still known as Columbus during Biden’s term, but also as an indigenous day of the villages. This has been a long time for activists who wanted to change the focus of commemorating Columbus’s navigation in the Americas to his and his successors from the exploitation of the natives he found there.
Although Trump has been opposed to telling the history of the country for some time through a lens of diversity and oppression, the holidays that it intends to restore in its primacy were added to the calendar as a gesture of the growing diversity of the country.
Columbus’s expeditions never landed in the North -American continental, let alone none of the places that would become the 50 states. But Genoa’s native was increasingly commemorated in the United States, as Italian immigrants went to the country, and politicians tried to gain their support.
In fact, it was the lynching of 11 Italians- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Columbus Day designated as a national holiday in 1934.
Trump has long complained that the Democrats demolished Columbus’ statues, a complaint he made again on Sunday. In 2017, he spoke of the review of the 76 -foot explorer statue at the New York Columbus Circle, which had ordered Bill de Blasio. Today it remains in place, but other statues have been defended or demolished.
By 2020, Trump’s administration paid to restore a Columbus statue in Baltimore that was poured into the port during protests against police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.