They might want to teach the darker side of the Obamaloon.
(And libs, please don’t try the racist stuff...this is not referring to his color. Your guy is a commie idiot, pure and simple.)
Ah, maybe that's because of the limited capability of navigation, measuring, and mapping equipment of the day.
Columbus, a brilliant thinker and mathematician had calculated from all equipment and observations available to him, that the Earth was spherical, but calculated a circumference about 30% smaller than the actual circumference. It was an astounding accomplishment for the day.
Arriving after a difficult voyage and expecting Asia, nothing matched, but it only took a couple days, still in his exhausted state, to figure out that he had DISCOVERED an unknown continent and recalculate with 95% accuracy.
Yeah, the Captain of an expedition into the absolute unknown, with zero recon, needs to be a Nancy Pants.
As admiral of the fleet, with a royal appointment, no doubt he should have taken a vote every day as to what they should do next.
"Ay, caramba, Capitano! Turn back! We is about to fall off the edge of the world!"
An exchange Sunday with my eldest son got me to thinking (a rare feat, indeed).
He asked if tomorrow was a holiday. I responded that it’s Columbus Day. Sensitive and bright guy that he is, he came back – half joking — with “Don’t you mean Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Day?”
He and I have debated the matter of the government’s treatment of the American Indian many times. He takes the position that we badly mistreated these original and mostly warrior inhabitants of what we now call America. I agree with him that, sadly, by violating treaties, marching them off to barren reservations, etc. we have done that, but I also reminded him that throughout history, with precious few exceptions, when two cultures have clashed, the one with the superior and more advanced technology usually prevailed.
That brought to mind a warning Mr. Jefferson issued over 2 centuries ago that “Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”
And THAT brought to my alleged mind Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“Peace” has several definitions:
1. The absence of war or conflict and the necessary presence of justive. (A desirable but, according to Scripture practically unattainable goal.)
2. The absence of RESISTANCE to efforts by utopian elitists to destroy traditional national sovereignty and blend all the nations of the world into some bizarre socialistic New World Order where all will be equal – but SOME will be more equal than others.
Obama received the nomination after less than two weeks in office. The Nobel socialists apparently listened to his campaign speeches more intently than the American electorate. It seems they understood what he was well before the election.
I’m 100% convinced that the Nobel was his reward for promoting a “peace” meeting not the first definition — but the second.
Obama’s constant apologies, his repeated remarks about our unexceptionalism coupled with his rapid moves to weaken – indeed, CRIPPLE – the United States in an increasingly dangerous and envious world more than confirmed the Nobel socialists’ fond hopes. And if anyone still thinks he’s simply a naïve fool, you’ve not been paying attention. He – and his global elitist handlers – know PRECISELY what they are doing.
Which brings me back to the clash between native Americans and the technologically superior Europeans who ultimately overwhelmed them.
At what point will WE assume the role of those early natives when some technologically superior culture – made so by endless streams of “foreign aid,” technology transfers and outright theft of that technology from the global corporations who site plants in those would-be foes for the cheap labor — determines that we are ripe for conquest?
What’s even sadder is the probability that America’s obituary – if anyone who cares is around then to even write one — will declare the death of our culture a suicide.
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and the Republic
for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
Daniel Webster
Get ready, folks, because that’s where we’re headed.
OHMIGAWD!
It was because the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks meant Muslims now cut off Europe from Asia. All the known trade routes now went through Muslim controlled areas.
1492 was the year the last Berbers were expelled from Spain.
Interesting editorial on this at www.thequietconservative.com “Happy Columbus day” but the main points are above.
Columbus discovered America because of Islam. Over 500 years later it is still a threat to civilization.
When they gonna teach the darker side of the Clintons?
first male kindergarten teacher I’ve ever heard of
(that is, not counting the Governator in the movies...)
Now, now; we all owe a debt of gratitude to all these modern teachers for making us aware of the violence and perfidy of Columbus and all the White followers from Europe.
Thanks to our modern school system, we now know that those evil White people - shame on them - disrupted a continent of peaceful, happy, and contented Nature worshippers who spent all their time in prayer, fasting, charitable acts, and other Good Works.
“I talk about the situation where he didn’t even realize where he was,’’
For kindergardeners, he should also talk about his perserverence and determmination. Not about how “mean and bossy” he was. Plenty of time for that later on. The biggest thing they need to understand is that if not for Columbus and other dead white men like him, they would be sitting in their mud huts picking nits off of each other.