Bruce Toews

OK, my big question is this. Why is Columbus Day a national holiday anyhow? I honestly don't remember doing anything that was special on this day, not even during school, but school was a long time ago for me so it could have just slipped the memory. But these days all I hear about are sales at various stores and assorted bland generic wishes for happiness upon the day. What's the point, save that perhaps banks are closed and there's no mail and I guess other government jobs have the day off. What's the point of that? I'm also going to avhe to agree with ImAFarmGirl's comments. Even though I'm a white guy, white privilege is something that is not discussed for some reason and may be a hard concept to grasp. But as a blind person, I wonder how much of that white male privilege I might still have, because I think by having a disability, you tend to lose status points. But anyhow, I'm not sure how much more accurate/truthful today's social studies texts are but at least they're not making out white males and European culture as the be-all and end-all of everything. But I think sometimes oppression is not necessarily an overt thing or a thing one does on purpose. The problem is, everyone, including white males, seems to want to feel they're being victimized by somebody. Where do ya draw the line and holler "stop!"