# Columbus Day v Indigenous People's Day v Leif Erikson Day

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-day-v-indigenous-peoples-day-v-leif-erikson-day/952323 "2021-10-11T21:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-day-v-indigenous-peoples-day-v-leif-erikson-day/952323/366 "2021-11-10T15:40:26Z")

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> [@Religious/Secular holidays in America (mostly Christmas, split from the Columbus Day thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-secular-holidays-in-america-mostly-christmas-split-from-the-columbus-day-thread/954138/52):
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> Max\_S is wrong in expecting Black Americans to treat the iconography of the white Founding Fathers as a neutral de-racialized element of shared cultural identity?

For what it’s worth, that’s not an accurate statement of my position. You would have to take out the “neutral de-racialized”, and I would prefer to specify that the element of shared cultural identity is the national element (so there’s no implication that an individual identifies as racist overall - just that they recognize racism as being a major force in their own country’s founding).

~Max

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