The holiday is Columbus Day, and will be until Congress says otherwise, as Queens councilman and member of the Italian Caucus Bob Holden points out.

The name was written into law in 1968, after FDR officially recognized it back in 1937.

New York City’s soft renaming of the holiday to “Indigenous People’s Day/Italian Heritage Day”?

Just a woke weasel to please the lefties who confuse erasing the memory of flawed historical figures with actually addressing real wrongs.  

The same cadres who took down Teddy Roosevelt’s statue from in front of the Natural History Museum.

Who want to tear down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson on city public property. 

Never mind the fact that Columbus is a cultural hero to New York’s long-established Italian community.

Writing Columbus Day out of the record is an attempt to write complexity out of the record.

The Genoan did great things and awful ones, but he changed the course of world history, and his actions were central to the founding of this nation. 

Slyly renaming the holiday doesn’t retroactively undo his wrongs. Or hide his achievements. 

It merely deprives us of an opportunity to see the past in all its complexities, and to have an honest conversation — which the woke left constantly calls for but never wants to engage in — around Columbus. 

It’s enforced amnesia, not truth and reconciliation.