If you grew up in a traditional ethnic working poor neighborhood anywhere east of Detroit and north of Washington, D.C., there were a couple of set aside days when you could feel a little bit of sense of pride about who your parents are and your grandparents were. One of them, of course, has now become green Halloween, Saint Patrick’s Day, and the other is Columbus Day. I remember as a boy watching the Labor Day Parade or the Decoration Day Parade later called the Memorial Day Parade and the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade watching the Knights of Columbus march. They had really cool capes, Napoleon hats and a really cool sword.
They got lots of cheers as they marched by holding up a tall cross of Jesus and an Italian flag. That innocence has now been taken away in Colorado because, of course, Christopher Columbus is now known as single handedly enslaving Native Americans.
In one of the greatest bait and switches I’ve been able to witnesses in a state full of great bait and switchers is the current attempt to establish Frances Xavier Cabrini Day. As I ride my motorcycle up I-70 I first thought the Mother Cabrini statue was an old Jupiter-C missile. It’s not. It actually honors a very lovely and kind ethnic Italian woman.
Now, wrestling fans “can you see and smell what ‘the Rock’ is cooking?” Not only if you continue to support Christopher Columbus, racists that you are, and you negate Mother Cabrini you become a sexist. Here’s a show stopper. There are historians that believe Columbus actually was Jewish which in today’s politics would make him a suppressor of Palestinians. The man simply can’t win.
But in my favorite turn of events, if you follow politics outside of Colorado, New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio had appointed a Director of the Manhattan Museum specializing in art by LGBTQ artists. What did they do? They snubbed Italian American icon Mother Frances Cabrini. The report is that somebody had to take the fall for the First Lady of New York Chirlane McCray who didn’t want Mamma there. They’ve told people that they want to quell the criticism of the statue. Why is that? Well obviously, she was a devout Christian woman. Are you starting to see the picture?
In my grandson’s lifetime these same politically correct witch hunters will also inevitably change Cabrini Day. She will go as Columbus goes before her. For exactly the same reason that the politically correct hacked her in New York.
Remember when Lenin said the end will justify the means? Columbus sailed for Spain, the sailors spoke Spanish, they conquered for the King and Queen, slaves were taken for the King and Queen of Spain. Close on his heels came Cortez, Pirazzo and deSoto who murdered tens of thousands of indigenous people while searching for gold, glory and the fountain of youth. Why aren’t we critical of Spanish language, Spanish culture and everything that came with it?
In 1979 out of that hotbed of intellectualism, Berkeley, also known as Baghdad by the Bay, comes Indigenous Peoples Day. The grifters at Colfax and Broadway couldn’t slip that one past you. So they set up Mother Cabrini who herself once celebrated Columbus Day. And as I leave you, Columbus Day was once stopped in the city of Denver in 1920s by the KKK. The Klan stopped the Italian Catholics from marching. The spirit of Mayor Stapleton lives on in the Democrat left, the political witch hunters of Colorado.
Remember the rhyme, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In 2020, boys and girls, the legislative blue did what the KKK could not do. They stopped Chris in his tracks.
— Peter Boyles