We understand well that, while we are celebrating the extraordinary success of the mission of forty boats that crossed the Mediterranean and resolved the war in Gaza, talking about a controversial Genoese navigator, perhaps a Jew, who sailed the Atlantic half a millennium ago to discover America is not very correct. But we have always liked controversial figures. As one of our extraordinary university professors explained to us, history – like it or not – is made by the unscrupulous; never the good ones.
And in short, despite the closeness we have always shown for the Native Americans (we were among the few to stay with the Indians when we played toy soldiers), we were pleased to know that Donald Trump has reinstated the feast of Christopher Columbus, the famous Columbus Day, on October 13; festivity never really suppressed but which had stopped being celebrated. Anyway. Italian Americans happy, Meloni grateful, the “dems” – who instead prefer Indigenous Peoples’ Day – a little less.
It is true. A Columbus Day is not worth, on the balance of trade, a 107% duty on Italian pasta. But it’s still good news if so
think that the drift of cancel culture began by tearing down the statues of Columbus.
Restoring its memory is a way to give the first blow of the pickaxe (it’s a metaphor, ed.) to the Woke monument. That’s good.
We only feel sorry for the left, for which Benigni and Troisi were right: Colombo shouldn’t even have left. Alright. All she can do is cry.