Kshama Sawant

Apparently this is one of her top priorities.

Via MyNorthwest:

Columbus Day may soon be no more in the City of Seattle.

“The Seattle City Council will be debating one of the most important issues in all the world,” KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson said, “whether Seattle should change the day of Columbus Day to National Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”

The council is considering a resolution proposed by Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Bruce Harrell that would declare the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day in the City of Seattle.

“They want Columbus Day no more because Columbus didn’t just sail the ocean blue in 1492, but he also was apparently a horrible, genocidal person,” Monson said.

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