Happy indigenous peoples’ day!

I woke up early this morning. “Perfect,” I thought. “I can catch the 7:20 bus.” I biked 15 blocks to the bus stop.

“Wow, I’m actually early to work for once!” I thought as the bus pulled up to my stop. I arrived at work, but the code to get into the building doesn’t work. “Strange,” I thought. Then I saw a sign taped to the inside of the glass door. “Closed for Columbus Day.”

I am enraged. Columbus, the colonizer Columbus? The federal government shutting down their offices for a person who enslaved, raped, and massacred scores of indigenous people?

Quickly, I tweet, “Happy indigenous peoples’ day! Christopher Columbus can rot in hell.”