Typical: Colleges Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day over Columbus Day

In the latest example of colleges being a breeding ground for leftist indoctrination, Campus Reform is reporting “several colleges are choosing to observe ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ instead.”

Columbus Day is the national holiday that the left prefers to stir up trouble wherever they can and cause division.

President Joe Biden declared  “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” a national holiday last year, stating: “NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 11, 2021, as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

The schools choosing not to celebrate Columbus Day include Colorado State University, which ” invited Native American Rights Fund attorney Beth Wright to keynote its Indigenous Peoples Day event. It is hosted by the Native American Cultural Center and RamEvents.”

In addition Dartmouth a once prestigious school will be foregoing celebrating Columbus Day in favor of celebrating this new holiday going as far to proclaim “We’re challenging people to think about their assumptions about Christopher Columbus and about this nation in general—challenging them to question their American identity in a way that recognizes who we are as Indigenous people and who we’ve become, despite all the challenges that we’ve faced,” student Ahnili Johnson-Jennings said in a Dartmouth article.”

Other schools choosing the Biden-invented holiday over Columbus Day include Mid Michigan College and the University of St. Thomas.

In addition, Lake Forest College “will host three events on Monday in honor of indigenous people.”

Instead of showing respect to a traditional American holiday, the schools are once again showing they put left-wing ideology and DEI before an actual patriotic education.

Patriotism at these schools seems to be viewed as a vice.

One can assume other schools will follow the lead and opt out of Columbus Day in favor of a Biden-created holiday.

Any opportunity for the Cultural Marxist Left to divide America, they eagerly galvanize.

While we respect Native Americans and their history, hijacking American history and ruining an important day for Americans is not the way to show respect.

One would have hoped by now DEI and its remnants would have been purged from the universities, but that is clearly far from the case.

Marxists seek to undermine America and hijack every American celebration in favor of alternative agendas.

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