Happy Columbus Day!

[macwilkin]

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.

Of course, Native Americans never did any of those things, because they were perfect "noble savages"...can we say The Aztecs?

Let's save the Political Correctness, please. Columbus was a human being, and none of us are perfect.

Sorry, mods, but I had to respond to this one. I abhor political correctness.

T.

[Woodsheal]

Of course, Native Americans never did any of those things, because they were perfect "noble savages"...can we say The Aztecs?

Let's save the Political Correctness, please. Columbus was a human being, and none of us are perfect.

Sorry, mods, but I had to respond to this one. I abhor political correctness.

T.

Right on target, Todd!

[McClef]

This thread is in danger of rapidly deteriorating into the rights and wrongs of past centuries.

Please stay on topic.

[EHCAlum]

When I lived in Charlottesville, we never got Columbus Day off. We always got April 13th off.

My UVA brethren should know the importance of that date.