Tomorrow, September 15, the Lake Worth City Commission will be meeting on Zoom at 6pm.
Omari Hardy will attempt to be the "star" once again--
NEW BUSINESS:All of these discussions are important but Item C is the liberal lefty Omari's sticking it to our history once again.
A. Discussion about how the Commission will fill the District 2 seat (no backup provided)
B. Discussion on how to reduce speeding on Lake and Lucerne Avenues (no backup provided)
C. Resolution stating that the City will not honor nor celebrate Columbus Day and that it will instead honor and celebrate Indigenous People's Day (Resolution will be provided by Commissioner Hardy)
Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and Columbus Day 2020 is on Monday, October 12. It was unofficially celebrated in a number of cities and states as early as the 18th century but did not become a federal holiday until 1934 under Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
There are now several states that do not celebrate Columbus Day and Washington, D.C's council a year ago voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent.
In 2017, after someone vandalized the Christopher Columbus statue in New York City's Central Park, the then-president and chief operating officer of the National Italian American Foundation, John M. Viola, wrote in a New York Times editorial,
"The 'tearing down of history' does not change that history. In the wake of the cultural conflict that has ripped us apart over these months, I wonder if we as a country can't find better ways to utilize our history to eradicate racism instead of inciting it. Can't the monuments and holidays born of our past be re-imagined to represent new values for our future?" [NPR]
Well, Omari wants to "tear down" Columbus Day. He loves being a radical and being divisive; it makes his day. Just leave it alone Commissioner.
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