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  • Ugh...

  • Evil.

  • Pure evil.

  • (♪)

  • Invader.

  • He got lost coming here,

  • and he's the one that named us Indians, because he thought he was in India,

  • so he's not a good figure to the native community.

  • Confused. (chuckling)

  • I don't think we should have a holiday for it. (chuckling)

  • Pain.

  • Claiming North America as--

  • as like, land that could be claimed, and could be taken.

  • So the start of a lot of pain.

  • (man off-camera) Christopher Columbus.

  • Mmm.

  • Uh, I guess ignorance.

  • Oh my God, murderer, rapist.

  • Genocide.

  • The atrocities committed-- just grotesque, um.

  • And the scars are still felt today.

  • Evil.

  • Evil.

  • Uh, fuck him! Yeah, fuck Columbus.

  • Fuck Christopher Columbus.

  • This would be "fuck you."

  • He's the first terrorist in America, that's for sure.

  • According to the U.S. Government law, it says,

  • "If you partake in somebody that's stealing, then you're just as guilty."

  • Everybody knows the United States's story line,

  • so therefore, all those that aren't orig-- aboriginal,

  • that knows about the genocide, the rape, the murder, the theft,

  • the putting on the reservations on a rock that they couldn't survive on,

  • they're going to have to face judgment.

  • Murderer. Um, rapist.

  • It always was weird to me to have that day off in celebration of somebody.

  • Like, we don't have a day for Hitler, but it's, you know, it's the same thing.

  • Like, there are so many other people that Italian Americans or Italians

  • can hold up as their heroes besides Columbus.

  • Wrong! (chuckling)

  • Fake.

  • Fake.

  • They teach us that Christopher Columbus discovered America.

  • That Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything, and instead got lost.

Ugh...

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