Tag: Christopher Columbus
Cancel Culture Comes for California’s Sutter Buttes Mountain Range
No one can rewrite history. Renaming statues, parks, museums, schools or even mountain ranges does not change history, regardless of whether they are named after Confederate military leaders, racially-biased political figures, Native American tribes or “Swiss Colonizers.” And the people...
Ignorant Cancel Culture Comes for 3 Sacramento City Schools
In June 2020, CBS13 reported on a Sacramento woman who announced that she wanted to change the name of Sutter Middle School, named after John Sutter, famous for the discovery of gold on the American River, after reports that he...
Liberated Ethnic Studies Comes to K-5 Classrooms
In October 2021, Governor Newsom signed California’s ethnic studies mandate for high schools into law. While many school districts are still deciding on the specific curricula contents for their high school ethnic studies courses, a group of teacher activists have...
Gov. Gavin Newsom Proclaims ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ on Columbus Day
Today is Columbus Day in America. For most of our history, the United States considered Columbus a man worthy of admiration. School children were taught about his important discovery of the “New World” – America. But this strange impulse to...
Senate Republicans Urge Committee To Keep Columbus Statue In Capitol Rotunda
Earlier this week, Republican legislative leaders signed and sent a letter to the Joint Rules Committee in a last ditch effort to keep the Christopher Columbus statue in the State Capitol Building in Sacramento. Press play to hear a narrated...
Removal of Columbus Statue in CA Capitol Begins
California Senator Mike Morrell took this video Thursday and sent it to California Globe of the start of the removal of the beautiful Christopher Columbus statue in the State Capitol Rotunda. Politicians attempting to erase history Democratic Senate and Assembly...