Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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It was the second time a vote on the issue was postponed this year, although the Chicago Public Schools voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day last year.
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I’d support Indigenous People’s day but on one condition, every year school children have to spend the day learning about how the indigenous peoples were in a state of constant tribal warfare, taking women, enslaving the men and sometimes brutally sacrificing their young in ritualistic ceremonies. That they never harnessed the wind for energy, agriculture or written word. That life was short and brutish. Maybe they’ll realize the guy who crossed the ocean in an expertly crafted ship, navigating by star using geometric algebra wasnt so evil after all?
More meaningless woke nonsense.
WTF