[Vaquero]

I am a proud Columbus supporter of Italian extraction.

There are no more than a few stones piled one atop the other to hint at Eric the Red and his son Leif’s sojourn to somewhere up the Canadian coastline. (I won’t even try to go into the possibilities of St Brendan)

Failed colonies do not come near to legacy building.

I am proud of how much influence my Goomba had here 515 years ago, and if the so called native people have a problem with it, then its time to get off the reservation and get a job, just like everybody else.

[Clemenza]

A Genoan who sailed for Spain, yet today its a bunch of Sicillians putting on a tacky parade!

Cristoforo was a sailor and explorer, not a conquistador. Don't get me started on how the English and Native Americans themselves were better practicioners of mass murder of the indigenous than the Spanish, French, and Portuguese combined.

[Mrs.Z]

I’ve never understood their gripe.

Do they wish that they were still living in the stoneage while the rest of the world believed in a flat earth and didn’t come looking for them?

Nuts, just plain nuts.

[allmendream]

Also, let us not forget the writings of Snorre Sturlasson about Eric the Red and Leif Ericson's discovery of the new world. Some think that Columbus might have read a bit of Snorre and that gave him the idea, but I doubt it.