BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 14 COLUMBUS DAY, 2019) — Replacing Columbus Day with “Indigenous People’s Day” is not about honoring the red man. It’s about punishing those of Italian heritage for the crime of being white and European. Chief among the pencil heads who bullied this change were school superintendent JIV McCandless and his idiot enabler, school committee chair Kathy Yon.

Indigenous People’s — Indians or Native Americans, of you prefer: What is their pre-Columbian heritage? We know the story of the first Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, and the other benign tales, but what the reality was largely that of a savage people living in an unforgiving wilderness caught in perpetual warfare with other tribes competing for resources.

Prior to Christopher Columbus and the European advance, North America was essentially one large concentration camp. Constant warring among Indian tribes led to slavery, cannibalism, massacres, torture, and a way of life more suited for the ninth circle of hell than a prosperous fruition of human potential. The arrival of Columbus marked the beginning of discovery, enlightenment, and civilization. It built a foundation upon which a new nation could build and without which present day America would not exist.

THE PLANET would refer all open minded people to read George Feldman’s book, Cannibalism, Headhunting, and Human Sacrifice in North America: A Forgotten History. The book examines the factual record of life before Columbus and until colonization by Europe in the mid-1600s.

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Michael Graham, a CBS News commentator and political editor of NHJournal.com, writes:

According to an eyewitness account of “indigenous peoples” at work—in this case, the Iroquois in 1642, as observed by the Rev. Father Barthelemy Vimont’s “The Jesuit Relations”—captives had their fingers cut off, were forced to set each other on fire, had their skinned stripped off and, in one captured warrior’s case, “the torture continued throughout the night, building to a fervor, finally ending at sunrise by cutting his scalp open, forcing sand into the wound, and dragging his mutilated body around the camp. When they had finished, the Iroquois carved up and ate parts of his body.”

Shocked? Don’t be. Cannibalism was also fairly common in the New World before (and after) Columbus arrived. According to numerous sources, the name “Mohawk” comes from the Algonquin for “flesh eaters.” Anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of “Cannibals and Kings,” reports that the Aztecs viewed their prisoners as “marching meat.”

The native peoples also had an odd obsession with heads. Scalping was a common practice among many tribes, while some like the Jivaro in the Andes were feared for their head-hunting, shrinking their victims’ heads to the size of an orange. Even sports involved severed heads. If you were lucky enough to survive a game of the wildly popular Meso-American ball (losers were often dispatched to paradise), your trophy could include an actual human head.

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The Pittsfield School System teaches that Columbus and the subsequent Europeans who came to America engaged in state-sponsored genocide against Indians, that it was the sole mission of whites to crush non-whites. It purveys a fiction common to cities dominated by leftist ideologues, who view history as a category of fiction and who approach facts as if they carried Ebola.

Ordinary citizens don’t buy it, of course. In 2017, a Marist poll showed 56% in favor of Columbus Day as opposed to Indigenous People’s Day. Two years later, the number rose to 67%. THE PLANET is certain that same poll would be well above 75% in Shire City.

This majority shows its disgust each election cycle by not voting. That’s what bullies like JIV and Yon have done. In November, it will be the same thing again. The winner will be the majority of voters who didn’t bother. The skunks will continue driving Pittsfield into the gutter.

Happy Columbus Day, everyone.

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“Columbus? Yeah, great man. He got on that boat to discover Ray Charles” — Flip Wilson.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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