Yeah, introducing European-style mass slavery and genocide to the Americas is totally something worth being proud of... I mean absolutely no disrespect to those of Italian heritage but Columbus should be remembered for more than "discovering" America. Lets keep in mind the Taino and Arawak peoples of the Caribbean who were raped, slaughtered and enslaved by European "explorers".

More recently and more importantly, today is, in many places, a day set aside to honor the indigenous people of the Americas, to more fully understand and discuss the horrible events which transpired at the coming of Cristobal Columbo, the "Christ-Bringer Colonizer", and to consider the effects of imperial expansionism on native peoples the world over, an imperialism which continues even today in "third-world" countries all over the globe.

Columbus was no hero. He was a greedy opportunist who accidentally sailed to the wrong place and brutally subjugated the people he found there who welcomed him with open arms.





Antonio, you do look sharp though.