What are your feelings/thoughts/opinions about your groups proposals on Colombus Day?

I agree with all of my groups proposals for Colombus day. I feel as though Colombus Day should not be celebrated but it should be celebrated as a different holiday. We should be celebrating the founding of America and not the actions of Colombus. My group and I focused on the many wrong doings of Colombus. I agree with my groups proposal but in my opinion our new holiday is kind of confusing because we are still kind of celebrating Colombus since he was the first to record America. But other then that I believe our proposal is a good  one.

What does it say about a country to support a person/holiday such as Colombus?

I think celebrating a holiday such as Columbus Day is very wrong. I believe it's demonstrating to people that it's okay to celebrate the deaths of thousands or even millions of people. We shouldn't be celebrating the actions of Colombus because many of the things he did was terrible. For instance he made Native Americans into slaves, sent them to Europe and on the way there many of them died. He used people to increase wealth. I do understand the fact that if he hadn't recorded America I may not be here today, so why don't we celebrate the founding of America and not Colombus? I think that would be a better celebration, we would simply be celebrating the founding of America and not celebrating the horrible actions of a terrible man.