I would like to see Columbus day removed as a holiday because I don't think we should be celebrating the arrival of a genocidal maniac to the America's. I guess that would be like people in Germany celebrating Adolph Hitler day.
It's inappropriate, insensitive and trivializes the horrible things that were done. It teaches our children untruth and encourages them to turn around and repeat it.

I do think there is privilege that we take for granted because we are white; just like there is the same privilege sighted people have because they're sighted; things that they don't even think about.
I live in New Orleans which is mostly black and I see white privilege every day; I see how I'm treated differently in some ways because of my skin color.

I don't approve of such treatment, but at the same time, I don't hate my whiteness just like I'm sure sighted people don't hate their able-bodied-ness.
I was born white, am adopted actually so beyond the fact that I am white I have no racial identification what so ever, and don't really even think about my ancestors because I really don't know who they are.

My family is mixed; we have blacks and whites and native Americans because a bunch of us are adopted. So I guess I was really lucky to grow up that way because I learned that skin color is like eye color or hair color it is just a color. But at the same time we lost whatever culture we would have had if we had been raised in a largely black or Indian or say, Irish community.

These are all very interesting things to think about but as a white person and as a woman it really really angers me that we celebrate today, and I will help in any way I can to remove it from the holiday list.