The holiday of Columbus day, Day of Columbus or Race day began to generate the necessary controversy and some countries instituted the Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity and the Indigenous day.
The origin of this commemoration It is the landing of Christopher Columbus on the American continent, which took place on 12 October 1492.
The AS site remembers that the first Columbus Day celebration in the United States took place in 1792. The decision was made by the Order of Columbus of New York, better known as Tammany Hall, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the historic landing.
This decision was maintained in the following years.
Then, the note AS tells, in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt has declared Columbus Day a national holiday.
Already in 1971 the date was set as the second Monday in October.
Columbus Day controversy
The last few decades have given rise to a necessary historical revisionism in some countries. The paradigm shift became the visibility of the slave trade and the deaths of millions of people from murders and diseases that caused the landing of Columbus and the atrocities that the Spanish crown endorsed in American territory.
In Argentina, the name was changed in 2010 Columbus Day for the Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity. With the aim of promoting respect for indigenous peoples and the recognition of multiple identities.
In addition, the statues of Christopher Columbus have been removed in several countries.
Source: Clarin
