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Columbus Day March May Signal Revolt for Western Culture

by Sam Francis

Contrary to previous reports and the wishes of American Indian radicals, the city of Denver did hold a Columbus Day parade this year after all, the first time since 1992 that it was allowed to do so. It's odd that in the United States the holding of such a harmless event as a legal parade, let alone one in honor of Christopher Columbus, should be newsworthy at all, but perhaps Americans should start getting used to not being allowed to do harmless things they have always done.

The occasion for the newsworthy event was the abandonment of a previous agreement by local Italian-American leaders to call their march a parade for "Italian Pride" and not after Columbus. The local Indians, you see, regard Columbus as an architect of genocide, slavery and other misdemeanors and refuse to let anyone hold celebrations in his behalf.

The earlier agreement prohibited participants in the parade from mentioning Columbus at all, and if they did dare speak his name, the city would pull the parade permit. So much for the First Amendment.

Understandably, a good many Italian-Americans, not to mention non-Italian-Americans, were not happy, and after considering the agreement that the U.S. Department of Justice brokered between them, the city and the Indians, the Italians decided to dump it and hold their parade anyway -- even at the risk of displeasing the Indians.

It's rare in this country today for anyone, let alone an entire community, to do anything that displeases an approved ethnic group like Indians. It's OK to make fun of whites, use insulting ethnic epithets about them, and depict them as violent criminals and retarded primitives, but Indians, among certain other groups, are off limits.

Hence, the decision of the Italian-Americans in Denver to tell the Indians to lump it merits notice, and it may in fact be the beginning of a new era in which even approved ethnic groups like Indians have to shut up, put a lid on their own insults of other groups and their heritages and learn to tolerate other people's beliefs and customs. But if so, it won't be an era that arrives easily.

Thus, in the course of Denver's Columbus Day Parade last Saturday, police arrested nearly 150 demonstrators outraged that Italian-Americans have any First Amendment rights at all. Among those busted was aging American Indian Movement chieftain Russell Means, who has bloviated about the lost Indian paradise ever since the days of the Vietnam war and shows no sign of shutting up. "We are going to attempt to stop the parade through civil disobedience, in the time-honored Martin Luther King tradition," Mr. Means puffed.

What he meant, of course, was that he and his thuggish followers were going to try to terrorize the participants into halting the parade and thereby deny them the rights of free expression and association. He and his pals also offered their view that Columbus was "like Hitler" and "brought the culture of Europe, which was very violent, to the Americas, which were very peaceful."

But what was happening in Denver was a bit more than a local squabble over what to call the city parade. It was, as I have suggested before, the Indians themselves fully understand and as an increasing number of white European-Americans now perceive, a small skirmish in the world-historical clash of races and civilizations that characterizes our times.

It is a clash manifested in quarrels over not only what to call parades but also which language to speak, which civilization to live in and which people will prevail. As the Western civilization crumbles, the non-Western, non-white cultures of the Third World move in. Their peoples flood across our borders. Their tongues displace our languages. Their customs, institutions and world-views push ours aside.

In what remains of the Western world today, no political leader dares challenge the invasion of our territories for fear of offending increasingly large voting blocs, and no cultural leader dares question the superiority of non-Western cultures to those of his own civilization. What is happening is not merely the denial of a few constitutional rights but the managed extinction of a racial and cultural heritage.

But the Denver resistance to the attack on Columbus Day may not be the last we hear of those who still carry that heritage in their heads and hearts. One of the Italian-American leaders who led the resistance, Dr. Henry Cappolillo, seems to think so as well. "Political correctness has chosen for us long enough," he told the press. "It's time we choose how to celebrate our own heritage."

When other white European-Americans are ready to make the same choice, they can reclaim their constitutional rights as well as the civilization that bred them.

In 1992, the so-called American Indian Movement (AIM), a Marxist-led domestic terrorist group, staged a violent confrontation in Denver with organizers and participants in that city?s quincentennial Columbus Day parade. When plans were made for a Columbus Day march this year by Italian-American groups in Denver — the first since the 1992 confrontation — AIM was able to enlist the help of both the ACLU and the Justice Department to suppress any mention of the heroic explorer.

"With the help of the U.S. Justice Department," reported the Denver Post, "Italian-Americans and American Indians reached an agreement [in September] to hold a ?March for Italian Pride? on October 7th that would exclude any references to Christopher Columbus." Leaving aside this agreement?s implications regarding freedom of speech and assembly, it is interesting that the Feds preferred that the event be framed as a matter of ethnic identity politics, rather than as a celebration of a figure whose heroism can be honored by Americans of any background. In any case, AIM exploited the Feds? intervention to engage in another round of textbook-perfect Marxist street theater.

"Protesters shouting ?No more Columbus Day? poured a line of red liquid across the parade route to represent the blood of their ancestors," reported the October 8th Rocky Mountain News. "They carried signs reading ?Your celebration is my pain? and ?Why not Mussolini?? Others locked arms and moved forward. Women were at the front of the protest line, a tactic aimed at keeping police from using force." Predictably, the AIM contingent was supplemented by non-Indian agitators from the local Marxist "rent-a-mob" franchise. AIM chieftain Russell Means, who was conspicuously arrested at the event, later told a crowd of followers that "the day of Ghandiism and Martin Luther King tactics is over. I?m not going to put up with this any longer." According to Means, AIM and its allies are going to put pressure on Congress to repeal the federal holiday honoring Columbus.

Spectator William Kuhnhofer told the Rocky Mountain News, "I want to see a riot. That?s why most of these people came here. They don?t care about Indians and Italians." Neither do those behind the scenes who manipulate such conflicts on behalf of a centralizing agenda, and are willing to pit any two antagonists against each other toward that end. The Denver brouhaha was a museum-quality specimen of the "scissors strategy" of pressure from above and below — in this case, the Justice Department collaborating with street-level thugs from AIM.