Christopher who? ya'll !!

I don't get it !  Columbus Day 'didn't happen' in NC yesterday.

What's the deal? It was simply amazing to me!  Nobody seemed to care. 

Did they all just forget what day it was?  Or did everybody have too much barbecue on Sunday and simply say no to the holiday on Monday? All the kids had school and we got mail delivered right to our mailbox!

  

I know, I know, some people claim that Columbus treated those on his ship poorly, and when he got here those people already present on American soil were not treated fairly.  I was not here at the time to be able to give evidence to those facts but I can assure you of this fact..........

Some large NC based businesses for many, many years had thousands and thousands of hard working people in tobacco fields,

              (HELLO!! did 'somebody' not say smoking is bad for your health?)

and people, who knew people, that first-hand KNEW people, who were treated poorly as well.

 NOT A GOOD THING!

                                                

So what do you think..........we should ignore a place like NC who among it's accomplishments:

• Pepsi was invented in NewBern 
• Krispy Kreme donuts were founded in Winston-Salem
• The first miniature golf course EVER was in Fayetteville

                and come on people.............

• Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Fayetteville NC on Mar. 7, 1914

So let's wake up people in NC.........let's cut old Christopher some slack and give him a bit of credit...........

It's not about his nationality and he wasn't sponsored by the Nina, Pinta or the Santa Marie boat manufacturing company to try out their boat line for hurricane endurance status........although ultimately that company would have gone under.   Oops! get it.....gone under? Because, as we all know, it broke apart.

It IS a holiday you know!   President Roosevelt in 1937 named October 12th, Columbus Day and Congress, in 1971, declared it a Federal public holiday (that means America!) 

                              

Columbus Day celebrates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 on the American continent, and guess what??

I'm an American, no matter what State I'm in!

Happy Columbus Day Chris, you 'good 'ole boy' !!

oh..and would you please pass me a cold Pepsi and hand me that Krispy Kreme!