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This is multiculturalist,PC Liberal bias. Here is why we should celebrate Columbus day: Columbus spent 15 years haunting the courts of Europe with his idea (imagination and persistence). When the Queen of Spain provided the means he got three small and leaky ships and a crew from the jails of Spain. He really did go where no man had gone before as he cajoled his tiny fleet across the Atlantic braving the unknown, mutiny, low rations, and death. The natives he met in the Americas were not the left's "noble savages" many were murderous and cannibalistic. His crew of adventurers were Spaniards. A Spaniard in Columbus' time came from a society of farmers, merchants, or WARRIERS. For a 1000 years Spaniard fought Berbers, Carthage, Rome and numerous other invaders, so the Warrier class was promenant. Killing was as much a part of that culture as slavery was part of world wide culture. Columbus was extraordinarily brave, bold, and imaginative. There are 60 or more varieties of food that the rest of the world had never seen prior to Columbus. Every time someone from Europe to Africa experiences a potato, corn, or turkey, for example - they can thank Columbus. Columbus did not do anything directly to the natives that the natives weren't already doing to themselves. The Incas would sacrifice 20,000 people in a single day by cutting our their hearts. The PC'ers want to destroy our heritage and replace it with their BS.

It is all true! We have white liberal guilt to thank for the image of peaceful, berry eating, compassionate Indians. Columbus, by proxy is the one who brought humanity to the Natives.

I think they should thank Columbus and the real Native Americans, for showing them a better life than rape, slavery and murder. The life that these college students are enjoying today. The life where they get all kinds of taxpayer suported hand outs, for having ancestors who may have been from this land. Real Native Americans do not get such hand outs for merely having been here first, or for creating America.

But then we would have to admit we are a country based upon Christian ideals. That doesn't go over big with the vicitm crowd these days.

Columbus did not do anything directly to the natives that the natives weren't already doing to themselves. The Incas would sacrifice 20,000 people in a single day by cutting our their hearts.

That's not justification. We in the U.S. execute a bit under a hundred criminals every year, but we'd be pretty mad if the French came over and decided to execute a hundred more for their reasons.

Read my other post exonerating Colombus before going off on me.

Damn, so many different ways of spelling his name. Okay, okay Columbus.

That's right. That's a history they don't want to deal with. In a book I once read, The Light and the Glory, by Peter Marshall (son of the pastor), he claims that the Holy Spirit told Columbus to come to America (I think that's how it went) and that he was guided by God to come to this great nation. His motives were pure at the beginning. I don't know what, if anything, happened later but the man was a devout Christian and doing what God told him to do. That's why he could come across the oceans with three small ships. It was a mission, of sorts (our first missionary?). Interesting book on the Christian roots of our nation.