“ If you look at Columbus’ journey here, and the colonization, and the genocide, and the slavery he brought to this hemisphere, we probably weren’t supposed to make it 500 years later, but our traditions, our culture, they are here.”
“Then there is a large population of Italian Americans who for some reason align themselves with this idea of Columbus being an Italian American,” said Matias. “He never made it out of the Caribbean, ...”
Columbus never reached the mainland of North America, but is held responsible for the “genocide” they are claiming. This is an old and discredited slander. There was no genocide of the Indians. The vast majority of them died from diseases contracted by European explorers. In fact it was just as likely that the population of Europe would have been wiped out by diseases brought back from the Americas.
In any case does anyone believe that if Columbus did not discover the Americas that they would never have been discovered? Someone would have found it sooner or later and the reign of the stone age people there would have ended in much the same way that it did. It was inevitable.
In fact it was just as likely that the population of Europe would have been wiped out by diseases brought back from the Americas.
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