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It's worth pointing out that Columbus Day was a way to combat anti-Italian racism in America. They put an Italian at the center of the American Myth to convince people that Italians were as American as any other white person.
Bruh
That's literally what the people behind it intended.
literally the point.
they were rebranding Italians as white. they weren't white before. same thing with Irish, who weren't white, or Ashkenazi jews who also weren't white.