INTERVIEW – JARRETT STEPMAN – Daily Signal writer

TOPIC: Is this our last Columbus Day celebration? Daily Signal reporter Jarrett Stepman says we are not just going after our founding fathers anymore, we are going after the immigrants who made our civilization possible. President Benjamin Harrison started this holiday because of a mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans, so Harrison and other Americans wanted to make a holiday to the great Italian explorer. Jarrett says Columbus became a great, uniting figure. He notes people these days think Columbus was a thug, a monster in the 1490’s that exterminated the local population but that’s not true. He was a highly religious Christian explorer who opened up the new world and represented the boldness in American DNA that we are so proud of.