Vice President Kamala Harris has doubled down on recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day amid outrage on social media after it was revealed she supports renaming Columbus Day.
“This Indigenous Peoples Day, I am thinking of the young Indigenous leaders I met in Arizona last week. I look forward to their leadership and look forward to our partnership,” Harris said. He posted it on his Campaign X account late Monday afternoon.
The post comes as videos of Harris from both 2019 and 2021 have spread like wildfire across social media platforms, with past videos of Harris supporting the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. He spotlighted the comments and warned European explorers that they were “causing a wave of destruction”. Tribal Nations” when they arrived in the Americas in the late 1400s.
Asked in 2019 if she supported renaming Columbus Day in New Hampshire to “Indigenous Peoples Day,” Harris said, “Support me,” a video from the event showed. There is. Harris' comments came about a month after she made an ultimately unsuccessful 2020 bid for the White House.
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Trump's campaign denounced In exclusive comments to FOX News Digital on Sunday, Harris spoke about her comments that were unearthed in 2019.
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“Kamala Harris is a typical leftist. Not only does she want to raise taxes and defund the police, but she also wants to cancel American traditions like Columbus Day.” Trump campaign national newspaper Commissioner Caroline Levitt said:
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a service at Koinonia Christian Center on Sunday, October 13, 2024 in Greenville, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
“President Trump will ensure that the great legacy of Christopher Columbus is honored and will protect this holiday from radical leftists like Kamala Harris who seek to erase our nation's history.”
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As vice president in 2021, Harris said the United States “must not run away” from its “shameful past” that led to a “wave of destruction” by European explorers.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus, 1519. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Artist: Piombo, Sebastiano, Del (1485-1547). (Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
“Since 1934, the United States has recognized the voyages of the first European explorers to land on the shores of the Americas every October,” Harris said at the National Conference of American Indians on October 12, 2021. Presented at the 78th Annual Conference of
“But that's not the whole story. It wasn't the whole story,” Harris continued in her 2021 speech.
“Those explorers brought waves of devastation to tribal nations, committing violence, stealing land, and spreading disease,” she continued. “We must not run away from this shameful past and must do all we can to shine a light on it and address its impact on Indigenous communities today.”
Columbus Day is a federal holiday It is the day to officially celebrate and recognize the arrival of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492. Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a proclamation making Columbus Day a national holiday in 1934, following lobbying from the Italian American and Catholic communities.
Vice President Harris will address the 78th Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians in 2021. (White House)
Activists in recent years They argue that the day celebrates colonialism and the genocide of indigenous peoples, and separate the day from Columbus Day in favor of celebrating Native Americans. Activists are also working to remove Columbus statues from cities, including toppling one during the 2020 riots.
Protesters march around a statue of Christopher Columbus before eventually returning and pulling it down in Richmond, Virginia, June 9, 2020. (Parker Michaels Boy/AFP via Getty Images)
president biden In 2021, he became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples Day as a national holiday.
Harris has consistently celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day rather than Columbus Day, and her official Vice President However, no results appear.
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Her X post on Monday celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day comes after social media commenters slammed her over remarks that were unearthed in both 2019 and 2021.
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Fox News Digital has repeatedly reached out to the Harris campaign since Sunday regarding her previous comments, but has not received a response. Fox Digital reached out to the campaign again late Monday afternoon to ask if the vice president would stop recognizing Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day in light of her recent tweets, but did not immediately receive a response. I couldn't get it.
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