Minnesota’s far-left Lieutenant Governor under Tim Walz and the Democrat Senate candidate, Peggy Flanagan, reduced to the historic oceanfaring of Christopher Columbus that graduated her native ancestors out of teepees and walking and into air-conditioned homes with internet and other modern amenities such as cars and hospitals to a ‘man who got lost and hurt people.’
The ramblings came as the radical leftist – raised by a single mother, a white Irish Catholic woman at that – denounced the traditional acknowledge of Columbus Day and instead co-opted the second Monday in October to celebrate the woke alternative of Indigenous People’s Day. Flanagan’s father was largely not present in her childhood, though she identifies now with his ancestry as an Ojibwe. Marvin Manypenny was a well-known activist in Minnesota who passed away in 2020.
“I wish the removal had been different, but I am not sad that it’s gone. Columbus’ legacy was setting in motion generations of violence, rape, and genocide against Indigenous people who were already here when he arrived. We have this myth of a man that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and now my daughter knows Columbus as the man who got lost and hurt people,” Flanagan told a leftist crowd during a larger speech.
Watch that viral moment below:
Of course, anyone familiar with Flanagan knows of her far-left tendencies. In a speech that likewise went viral during Tim Walz’s national attention as the vice presidential nominee under Kamala Harris, she declared what the political left calls ‘transgender affirming care’ as tantamount to healthcare and that good parents simply listened to their children.
“Because let’s be clear, this is life-affirming and life-saving healthcare. When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent,” she once declared, all while wearing an infamous tee-shirt that said “Protect Trans Kids” with a prominent knife appearing within the text.
On the other hand, President Trump declared Columbus a hero for his sailings across the Atlantic Ocean. “Christopher Columbus changed the future of humanity forever, and in this administration, we know that Christopher Columbus is to us. He’s a hero. He’s a hero. Somebody would say, “Oh, that’s a terrible thing. You know the fake news. Look at all of them back there. They’ll say, but I feel that I, with some of the people in this room, we resurrected Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus,” he said.
“I mean, you couldn’t even say his name. If you said his name, they’d start writing stories about you like you’re some kind of an evil. Now we’re very proud, and we have a statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the one of the most important buildings in Washington, the Executive Office Building right across the street, the Eisenhower Building, and everyone loves it. You know, we have. I’d love to tell you. I would love to tell you that I fight every day to keep that statue there. I make it too easy. But it’s true. We’re very proud to have it,” he added.
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