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Goodbye, Columbus.
Vermont is on the verge of abolishing Columbus Day, which constitutes a politically correct blow against colonialism.
"You know, it's only a day and we're going to get out," said Vermont Governor Phil Scott (right).
He also said that he was about to sign the measure, which passed both chambers of the state legislature this week, into law.
The law will officially recognize the second Monday of October as "Aboriginal Peoples Day", instead of honoring the explorer behind the discovery of America.
A last-minute Republican attempt to preserve the October holidays and create a separate holiday to honor Native Americans was defeated on Wednesday.
The law would make Vermont the third state, after New Mexico and South Dakota, to cancel the official Columbus Day calendar in favor of an anticolonialist alternative.
Critics have attacked statues and Columbus celebrations in New York and elsewhere, denouncing him as a murderer who abused Native Americans.
But Italo-Americans celebrate him as a national hero and mark the holiday as a point of ethnic pride.
New York governor Cuomo quietly designated the Columbus Circle monument as a historic monument last fall to protect him from defenders who demanded it.
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