Democrat Sen. Martin Heinrich and 14 of his Senate colleagues recently introduced a new resolution declaring their support for designating the second Monday of October, currently the federal holiday of Columbus Day, as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
Although the sponsors of S. Res. 900 seem very purposefully to refrain from expressly condemning Columbus Day, this resolution is anything but politically neutral, explicitly describing Western contact in the New World as resulting in “suppression, forced assimilation, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples.” And with that, S. Res. 900 gives the game away as yet another Democrat attempt to erase American culture in favor of a new, woke, anti-West civilization. Rather than choose literally any other day of the year, its advocates selected Columbus Day as part of a broader campaign to redefine who and what we as Americans celebrate.
