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It is despicable Harry Reid attack to Redskins’ owner. It is diffamatory and racist to affirm that “He’s throwing a few blankets to the Indians.”< /p>

According to the article “In the late 1700s, Europeans fighting in the French and Indian War distributed blankets infested with smallpox to Native Americans as a way to combat their enemy. “

That was a murderous biological war, but, Why to inculpate the Europeans in general and not the real culprits? This event is best-known for the use of biological warfare when the British Army at Fort Pitt infected the besieging Native Americans with smallpox using blankets.

With the arrival of the Europeans to America, also arrived new pathogens and diseases, among them, smallpox was the main culprit for the great mortality among the Native Americans.

The first successful smallpox vaccine to be developed was introduced by English Physician, Edward Jenner, in 1798. By 1800, Jenner's work had been published in all the major European languages. Jenner, developed a vaccine against the smallpox by using the cowpox pathogen as an agent.

At the beginning of the 19th century Spain set a milestone in medical history for the control of contagious diseases. The Spanish Crown sent Spanish America an expedition commanded by Francisco Javier de Balmis, with the mission to spread the vaccine throughout the Spanish Empire, first to the Canary Islands and on to Spanish Central America. While his deputy, José Salvany, took vaccine to the west and east coasts of Spanish South America, Balmis sailed to Manila in the Philippines and on to Canton and Macao on the Chinese coast. He returned to Spain in 1806.

As American historian, Dr. Philip Wayne Powel, points out in his book, “The Tree of Hate”, as soon as a vaccine was available, “an enlightened Spanish government sponsored very early use of vaccination against smallpox, precisely because the disease was so dangerous to the Indian population.”

Along with the gospel, the Spaniards brought the western medical knowledge to America. There was never any attempt of genocide of the Indians on behalf of the Crown, to the contrary. As historian Salvador de Madariaga indicates, “the Spanish Crown constantly reiterated its paramount interest in the natives, this has been a constant feature of the regime, even in its worst days and in the worst governed parts.”

Spain founded 23 universities and colleges in colonial America, something without parallel in the history. Thousands of schools, hospitals, hospices, orphanages, mental asylums, and leper colonies throughout Hispanic America were founded under the initiative of the Crown of Spain, the Church and many Spaniards who came to the New World, and once they became wealthy and decided to remain, they donated great amounts of money for the maintenance and upkeep of charitable works that would benefit the people; institutions that were open to everyone, Spaniards, Indians, Mestizos and Blacks