总统唐纳德·特朗普本周末再次重申他对联邦克里斯托弗·哥伦布纪念日的支持。这一纪念活动引发了关于如何铭记国家历史的全国性辩论。
President Donald Trump this weekend reaffirmed his support for the federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus, a tribute that has fueled the national debate over how to memorialize the country’s history.
特朗普在周日的一条社交媒体帖子中向所有人致以“哥伦布日快乐”，并谴责那些在全国各地“几乎拆毁所有美丽的克里斯托弗·哥伦布雕像”的人。他誓言要结束这种“掠夺”，并称这些纪念碑“已经回归”。近年来，多个城市移除了哥伦布的雕像，包括2020年波士顿北端地区的一座大理石雕像，该雕像曾被斩首。同年，巴尔的摩的抗议者推倒了一座青铜哥伦布雕像，并将其扔入城市内港。同年，美洲原住民运动组织的抗议者还在明尼苏达州议会大厦外推倒了一座哥伦布雕像。
social media post Sunday, Trump wished a “Happy Columbus Day to all” and condemned those “ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus” across the country and vowed to end the “plunder,” saying the monuments “are back.”Several cities have removed statues of Columbus in recent years, including a marble statue in Boston’s North End in 2020, which was beheaded. That same year, protesters in Baltimore took down a bronze Columbus statue and dumped it into the city’s Inner Harbor. Also that year, American Indian Movement protesters pulled a Columbus statue down outside the Minnesota State Capitol.
白宫于周六推出了一个关于哥伦布航行至美洲故事的新互动网页，但并未提及他对美洲原住民所犯下的任何罪行，包括大规模屠杀、强迫劳动以及将新疾病引入该地区。
The White House on Saturday launched a new interactive web page about the story of Columbus’ journey to the Americas, without mention of any offenses committed against Native Americans, including mass killings, forced labor and the introduction of new diseases to the region.
上周，特朗普在该节日前夕举办了一场活动以纪念这位意大利探险家，并在白宫庭院内揭幕了一座13英尺高的哥伦布雕像。
Last week, Trump held an event to commemorate the Italian explorer ahead of the holiday, debuting a 13-foot Columbus statue on the White House grounds.
2021年，乔·拜登成为首位将这一节日称为“原住民日”的总统。此举受到部落活动家的欢迎，但遭到包括特朗普在内的共和党人的批评，称其为“觉醒主义”。拜登在声明中明确指出了哥伦布在15至16世纪对美洲原住民的暴力行为，但并未正式将哥伦布日更名为其他名称。
In 2021, Joe Biden became the first president to mark the holiday as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” a move celebrated by tribal activists but criticized by Republicans, including Trump, as “woke.”In his proclamation, Biden explicitly called out Columbus’ violence against Native Americans in the 15th and 16th centuries, but stopped short of formally renaming Columbus Day.
特朗普一直强烈反对对这一节日的任何重新定义，并继续将哥伦布视为英雄以及意大利裔美国移民贡献的象征。
Trump has railed against any reframing of the holiday, and continues to hail Columbus as a hero and a symbol of the contributions of Italian American immigrants.
去年，特朗普称哥伦布是“最初的美利坚英雄、西方文明的巨人，也是曾行走于地球上的最勇敢、最具远见的人物之一”，并誓言要将这位探险家的节日“从灰烬中拯救回来”。当时特朗普表示：“民主党人竭尽所能地试图摧毁克里斯托弗·哥伦布、他的声誉以及所有深爱他的意大利人。”他这番话是在回应拜登此前对该节日的言论。
Last year Trump called Columbus “the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth,” vowing to bring the holiday named for the explorer “back from the ashes.”“The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation and all of the Italians that love him so much,” Trump said at the time, referencing Biden’s previous remarks about the holiday.
与此同时，民主党人正越来越多地将这一节日重新诠释为纪念美洲原住民的日子，并提醒人们殖民者对他们犯下的暴行。纽约市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼缺席了本市哥伦布日游行——他是纽约历史上首位有意缺席该活动的现任市长——但他在周末通过社交媒体发布的一段视频向意大利裔美国人表达了敬意。
Meanwhile, Democrats are increasingly recasting the holiday in honor of Native Americans and a reminder of the atrocities committed against them by colonizers. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani skipped the city’s Columbus Day parade — the city’s first sitting mayor to intentionally do so — but paid tribute to Italian Americans over the weekend in a video posted to social media.
有17个州和华盛顿特区在10月的第二个星期一庆祝原住民日，其中5个州同时将其与哥伦布日一同设为带薪假日。而缅因州、新墨西哥州、南达科他州和佛蒙特州则仅将原住民日设为带薪假日。
Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., observe Indigenous People’s Day on the second Monday in October, five of which do so alongside Columbus Day as a paid holiday. A paid holiday only in honor of Native Americans is observed in Maine, New Mexico, South Dakota and Vermont. The post Trump doubles down on Columbus Day celebration, vows to end ‘plunder’ of statues MS NOW