The only good reason to celebrate Columbus Day is to remember and honor the fact that, when the first Italian immigrant arrived in the Western Hemisphere by way of Spain and migrated variously around the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, etc. in search of prosperity for his people back home, nobody here even asked to see his papers.
Not that Christoffa Corombo/Christophorus Columbus/Cristoforo Colombo/Cristobal Colon would have had any that would have passed muster today. Full story »
