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Brian Lear on WNYC and we're close today with a call in for Italian Americans on

this week of Indigenous People's Day slash Columbus Day slash Italian Heritage Day.

It's so awkward, right?

The way it is with this kind of shared holiday or a placement holiday that can leave everybody involved feeling aggrieved and

marginalized. So our question is would you support disconnecting these

holidays and establishing a separate Italian Heritage Day disconnected from Columbus

on another day on the calendar.

Italian American listeners, only you.

Would you support disconnecting these holidays and establishing a separate Italian Heritage Day on another day on the calendar?

212 433 WNYC 212 212, 433, 9692.

As we discussed on Monday show, which

was Columbus Day slash Indigenous People's Day

slash Italian Heritage Day.

Columbus might have sailed the ocean blue in 1492,

but it wasn't until 1934 that Congress and President

Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday, as CNN tells it on their

website as waves of Italian immigrants arrived in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

they face prejudice and discrimination.

To combat negative perceptions, a group of Italian-American

elites took up the cause of Columbus Day,

arguing that the contributions of Italian immigrants

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