What happened to Michigan Monday at the Ozone?

Submitted by g_reaper3 on

Is it just late this week or did they stop doing it out of disgust?

EGD

October 13th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^

The dude was a villain on par with Hitler and Pol Pot.  He enslaved and eventually exterminated the native Arawak population, he sexually molested young girls, and committed a litany of other human rights atrocities.  His greatest "accomplishment," the so-called "discovery" of the Americas, is intelligible only from a purely Eurocentric viewpoint.  So yeah, the question of why Columbus Day continues to be celebrated in this country is a pretty good one.

In Seattle, we no longer have Columbus Day; it has been replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day, which is pretty damn awesome--though my personal preference would have been to replace Columbus Day with the first two days of the NCAA tournament.

jmblue

October 13th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^

Columbus did a lot of despicable things.   If you are of Native American ancestry, you certainly are entitled to despise the man.  But if you are part of the 99% of the population whose ancestors came from elsewhere . . . it's more complicated.  Columbus's 1492 voyage set in motion the train of events that eventually led to the founding of the United States.  If that voyage had failed, our country might not exist. 

I do think it's good though that we do acknowledge the devastating effects that the Columbian voyages had on the indigenous peoples of the Americas - it's a credit to our society that we are capable of that kind of introspection.  Recently, the Turkish president, Erdogan, openly celebrated the 1453 conquest of Constantinople, without any sort of acknowledgement that this might not have been a happy event for the people of that city at the time. 

FauxMo

October 13th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^

Oh, I agree, the guy was a product of his time, but also a monster. I recall he punished those who refused to pay tribute in gold by cutting off a hand and forcing them to wear the hand around their neck, as a warning to the others. The "DUCK!" comment was because somehow, many still view him as a hero. It's mind-boggling...

xtramelanin

October 13th, 2015 at 2:17 PM ^

see joeyb's diagram a couple of posts below these.   no wonder our country is off course - we don't our history worth squat, so we don't know where we've been.  (non political statement disclaimer.  if you perceived it as political, you are wrong and a bad person.  so there)

EDIT:  crazy placement of this one by the machine - should be up about 6 posts.  go figure.

Ronnie Kaye

October 13th, 2015 at 12:42 PM ^

If it's not up by this evening, then you can say it's a scared/depressed thing. As noted above, it's been posted on Tuesdays in the past. Sometimes life intervenes and deadlines change.

StephenRKass

October 13th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^

Gerdeman is late sometimes. Just like Brian. Still, I don't think it is nearly as much fun for Ohio State fans who have been gloating about Michigan most of the time the last 8 years.

Dylan

October 13th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^

I tweeted him last night asking. OSU changed their press day to Monday, so it has added a lot of extra strain on the "Monday" title.




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MI Expat NY

October 13th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^

Based on this quote, I'd say the defense has converted the writer...

"I've said in the past that the defense is doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing, but that's not true. They're doing better than they should be doing. They have allowed 14 points in their five wins and shut out three straight opponents. That's ridiculous."

Eye of the Tiger

October 13th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^

"Honestly, this team has more tight ends and fullbacks than an AFL reunion. I imagine half the team hanging out at a Kansas City VFW smoking cigarettes and drinking Busch while playing poker and listening to Conway Twitty on the jukebox."

Laughed out loud at that one.