“…come sail away, come sail away with me!”
in 1492, columbus sailed the ocean blue and i would like to think that he might have had that styx song playing on his ipod on the main deck of la pinta (or la nina or santa maria).
in 2008, i got to watch furry little college kids protest the fact that christopher columbus was a slave trader as well as being responsible for genocide in order to find his “new world”. the part of this protest that i found particularly amusing was that even with the economic goings on and whatnot, charlotte is still a banking town. that means the population of business uptown charlotte was drastically reduced today because all the bank folks had off work. if a college cause head protests in an empty uptown square does he make a sound?
i don’t know about you, but when i was in college, if i got a monday off with 80 degree sunny weather, i was drinking some beers and playing some horseshoes. not that i don’t think that opening a history book doesn’t lead me to agree that columbus day is sort of an antiquated holiday. i do. it just kind of makes me chuckle inside a little that in four years or so, after a haircut and the procurement of some khakis and a blue oxford shirt, most of those kids will be off again on this holiday because they will be working for the same banks that their message totally missed today…