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   From: illegal.alien@nytimes.com   
      
   Recall that Popovich is a mouthy Air Farce cunt who would get his   
   lights put out in three seconds in ground combat.   
      
   San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich ripped a Texas school   
   district for observing Columbus Day.   
      
   Popovich used part of his pregame press conference on Friday to take   
   a shot at the Alamo Heights Independent School District in Alamo   
   Heights, Texas, for their decision to keep the Columbus Day holiday   
   instead of changing it to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.   
      
   The 72-year-old legendary NBA coach likened the 15th-century Italian   
   explorer who sailed to the present-day Bahamas in 1492 to a   
   genocidal mass murderer.   
      
   "He initiated a New World genocide," Popovich said of Columbus, via   
   the San Antonio Express-News. "He set in motion what followed, the   
   annihilation of every Indigenous person in Hispaniola, which was   
   Haiti and the Dominican Republic today. He took slaves. He   
   mutilated. He murdered."   
      
   Popovich also took issue with the idea that celebrating Columbus Day   
   was an honor for Italian Americans.   
      
   "It’s not a knock on Italian Americans. That’s a silly argument.   
   It’s like saying, ‘We should be proud of Hitler because we are   
   German.’ It makes no sense. It’s about Columbus. It’s not about   
   Italian Americans. So, there are a lot of states that have come out   
   and scratched Columbus Day and made it Indigenous Peoples’ Day. But   
   in our city, are we that backward that we have school districts that   
   do that? I am amazed. Just amazed," he added.   
      
   The Alamo Heights School District didn’t respond to any of the   
   statements made by Popovich.   
      
   Joe Biden became the first president to mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day   
   over the weekend. He said the day would be observed along with   
   Columbus Day.   
      
   "For generations, Federal policies systematically sought to   
   assimilate and displace Native people and eradicate Native   
   cultures," Biden wrote in the Indigenous Peoples’ Day proclamation.   
   "Today, we recognize Indigenous peoples’ resilience and strength as   
   well as the immeasurable positive impact that they have made on   
   every aspect of American society."   
      
   He acknowledged the role Italian Americans played in U.S. society,   
   but also referenced the violence and harm Columbus and other   
   explorers of the age brought about on the Americas.   
      
   "Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and   
   atrocities that many European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations   
   and Indigenous communities," Biden wrote. "It is a measure of our   
   greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these shameful   
   episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to   
   the light, and we do all we can to address them."   
      
   The Associated Press contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/sports/spurs-gregg-popovich-columbus-day-   
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