Posted on 10/14/2014 10:03:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thank you Columbus!
The only problem with Columbus is that he let some of them live.
While I certainly don’t like the politically-correct, Liberal motives behind the assault on Columbus Day, I don’t view it as a sacrosanct holiday. It was popularized in the first half of the 19th Century. It has nothing to do with America per se. Columbus was no saint — he undertook a bold voyage that opened American to further European exploration but there is plenty of evidence that he was looking to get rich and was a dictatorial jerk to the people he ruled over when he was governor general. So if it goes away, it won’t bother me that much.
Columbus should have killed all native Americans?
Was this article satire because it seems to be making the case that ISIS equals all conquerors, which along a certain line of logic is pretty true. What is the point of this piece?
Common core does not teach America’s history or tell about the second World war or so I have been told. So Columbus may not be taught either. As well ... This is dangerous for our youths to not know our Constitution. To be taught it is old and not for today, is a turn in the wrong direction.
God help America stand for freedom and our way of life., in Jesus name, amen.
Equating ISIS with the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots? Huh?
Hey, I’m indigenous, I was born here!
Happy happy Columbus day!
from a Heinz 57 which includes feather-indian and Italian.
Of course, during his several voyages Columbus never set foot on North America. He did,however make one of the greatest discoveries of all time. Cuban Cigars. He found the native men there smoking them around a fire pit. He brought some back to Spain and the rest is history. Reason enough to toast and celebrate him!
Now I’m off to the man cave for a herd break.
I really don’t understand this. Columbus came from Europe. He and his kind get a bad rap and are blamed for anything bad that the while liberals can come up with. Hispanics came from Europe and they are praised and treated like princes and princesses by the liberal gringos. I fail to see the difference. Columbus takes the rap for bringing “disease and greed.” The Hispanics were searching for the seven cities of gold and killed a lot of “indigenous peoples” in the process. What’s up with that?
Yes, thank God that it was Western Civilization that arrived first. The leftist liberal meme is that but for Columbus the aboriginals in North America would still be hunting bison is in its face ridiculous. Some modern culture at SOME point was going to drag Geronimo kicking and screaming into the 21st century. And besides, the aboriginals were for the most part constantly at war, raping, pillaging, and killing each other continually. Serious-minded people thank God every day that English law, mores, religion, freedom, and culture won the day... A republic, if you can keep it.
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
Your “research” has been found wanting. Keep looking and you will find a man of robust courage. So easily we step over our monuments of flesh and blood... Your comment astounds me.
Indeed. The U.S. honors a person who discovered nothing & never set foot on its shores. Everyone gets a trophy.
You have a lot of questions, and there are no easy answers. Imagine if Columbus got funded by Italians of power instead of Spain. We might all be speaking Italian, all the way to the tip of South America. But the problem would still be here. Poor people flooding our nation from down south.
They have race problems down south. Whiter people of Spanish heritage see themselves as above the browner classes, who are mixed with native indigenous and black blood. It's those browner poorer classes who are flooding north into our nation. There is animosity between brown and white classes in Mexico and south of there.
I see Columbus Day as a celebration of all men who had BALLS.
And it took great big balls to get into those tiny ships and head out into the open ocean. Where life was precarious to say the least, and there was zero help if you got into trouble...you were on your own.
bump
The world is untold times more improved, and if those explorers had stayed home or perished before October 1492, we would all still be living in filthy hovels, dying young, and wallowing in ignorance as if we were freaking Islamists.
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