Vice President Kamala Harris' recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day doubled with social media outrage over her undisclosed support for renaming Columbus Day.
“This Indigenous Peoples' Day, I'm thinking about the young Indigenous leaders I met in Arizona last week. I count on their leadership and look forward to our partnership,” Harris posted on his Campaign X account on Monday afternoon.
The post comes as Harris' video spreads like wildfire across social media platforms in 2019 and 2021, highlighting Harris' previous comments supporting the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day and warning European explorers to trigger a “disruptive wave”. tribal nations” when they arrived in the Americas in the late 1400s.
“Count on me for support,” Harris told a New Hampshire voter in 2019 when asked if he supported naming Columbus Day “Indigenous Day,” footage from the event shows. Harris' comments came about a month after he launched his eventual run for the White House in 2020.
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Condemned Trump's campaign Harris spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital on Sunday about her revealing 2019 comments.
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“Kamala Harris is your stereotypical leftist. She doesn’t just want to raise taxes and defund the police – she also wants to abolish American traditions like Columbus Day,” Trump campaign national press Secretary Carolyn Levitt.
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a church service at Koinonia Christian Center, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, NC. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
“President Trump will ensure that Christopher Columbus’ great legacy is honored and will protect this holiday from radical leftists who, like Kamala Harris, want to erase our nation’s history.”
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In 2021, Harris said as vice president that the United States “should not be ashamed” of the “shameful past” of European immigrants who he said started a “devastating wave.”
Portrait of Christopher Columbus, 1519. Found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artist: Piombo, Sebastiano, del (1485-1547). (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
“Every October since 1934, the United States has recognized the journey of European explorers who first landed on American shores,” Harris said during the 78th Annual American Indian Conference on October 12, 2021.
Harris continued in her 2021 speech: “But that’s not the whole story. It was never the whole story.”
“These explorers began a wave of devastation to tribal nations – violence, land theft and the spread of disease,” he continued. “We must not run away from this shameful past and we must shine a light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Indigenous communities today.”
Columbus Day is a federal holiday which celebrates and officially recognizes the arrival of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in America in 1492. Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday in 1934, after lobbying by Italian-Americans and the Catholic community.
Vice President Harris speaks at the 78th Annual American Indian Convention in 2021 at the National Convention. (White House)
Workers in recent years Columbus has worked to disassociate the day, claiming it celebrates colonialism and the genocide of indigenous peoples, in favor of celebrating Native Americans. Activists have also worked to remove statues of Columbus from cities, including demolishing these statues during the 2020 riots.
Protesters surround a statue of Christopher Columbus before marching, returning and tearing it down, in Richmond, Virginia, on June 9, 2020. (Parker Michel-Boyce/AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden 2021 became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day on the same holiday.
Harris has consistently celebrated Indigenous Peoples' Day on Columbus Day, with her official Vice President's X account recognizing the holiday every year since 2021, while a search for “Columbus Day” on her account yielded no results.
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Her X post to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day on Monday came as social media commentators criticized her for unpublished comments in 2019 and 2021.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Harris repeatedly since Sunday about her past comments about the campaign but has not received a response. Fox Digital reached out to the campaign again Monday afternoon to ask if the vice president would end recognition of Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day in light of his latest tweet, but did not immediately receive a response.
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