Columbus Day parades, at least where I am, are basically just Italian Heritage Day Parades and include few references to Columbus or his "accomplishments." While I agree the holiday should be outlawed, your outraged at the parades, simply a celebration of a certain ethnic group, is unjustified and absurd. Maybe we could rename the holiday for an Italian who did stuff, like Mussolini Da Vinci or someone? Then the Italians can still celebrate, and the bad holiday will be gone. On AAD you even linked to an article which seemed to cite that it was a "white nationalist" parade - the article only talked about people celebrating their Italian heritage. Of course, in your response to me you completely missed the point and chastised me on one word I said, as always. *sigh* You never change, BRTD. You really never do.
But using Columbus Day as a point of Italian-American heritage is stupid. Columbus is a very dubious example of an Italian just as much as he is a morally dubious person for one. Waving an Italian flag at a Columbus Day parade makes no sense since Italy wasn't the country he was working for and didn't even exist at the time, that flag was meaningless.
