Should New York Change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day?

Los Angeles did it. So did Minneapolis and Austin. Now activists are hoping they can add New York to the list of cities that have dropped Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day.

Valerie Rivera, who says she's from the Taíno nation, wants New Yorkers to "open their eyes and realize that they're honoring a murderer, a rapist, a man who was horrible," she said, of Christopher Columbus. Roberto Mukaro Borrero, the president of the United Confede, IPDration of Taíno People, urged Italian-Americans to honor another explorer, like Amerigo Vespucci, after whom America was named. "Why should they have to use a symbol of oppression to make their statement?" asked Chief Borrero. "It doesn't make sense to us."

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