[SunkenCiv]

Why? Because of this?

• Obama: Christians who take religion most seriously 'suspicious of those not like them'
• Obama Celebrates Columbus Day: Ushered in 'Disease, Devastation, and Violence'
• Obama Celebrates Columbus Day: Ushered In "Disease,Devastation,And Violence"

or maybe this ****?

• 9 cities abolish Columbus Day in favor Indigenous Peoples' Day
• Santa Rosa Junior College to observe Indigenous People's Day on Columbus Day

Some GGG topics from the FRchives:

• Remains of Conquistador Convoy Found in Mexico
• Was Christopher Columbus in Greenland 15 years before he discovered America?
• Hidden secrets of 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging
• South Iceland Cave Made before Settlement
• Study: Vikings May Have Taken a Native American to Iceland
• First American in Europe 'was native woman kidnapped by Vikings and hauled back to Iceland...'
• Ptolemy's Geography, America and Columbus: Ancient Greeks and why maybe America was discovered
• Pre-Columbian Map of North America Could Be Authentic--Or not
• Archaeological sensation in Oestfold [ Inca remains from 11th c Norway? ]
• Leif Erikson Day, October 9, 2004
• The Egg Island theory (Where Did Columbus Make Landfall?)
• Israelites Were In America Before Columbus

[Tzimisce]

I’m “Indigenous” to the US.

But they’re still scrubbing my history.

[Texan5]

I don’t see Columbus as the villain in the discovery scenario-if there is a “villain” in that episode of history, it is Spanish greed-all Columbus did was call the attention of Europeans to a place that no one was paying much attention to up till then, and got paid for it-the rest would have happened eventually anyway-it was pretty much inevitable...

But I don’t see the Spaniards as being any “nicer” than the Native Americans-they were just a few centuries more advanced in their methods of conquest, and they were past cannibalism and human sacrifice. Other than that, it was a brutal world everywhere and spoils of war were the reward of the winner...

Obama and the rest really ought to quit bashing Columbus...

[colorado tanker]

For many years Columbus Day was a total circus here. AIM, Ward Churchill and every wing nut would demonstrate and block the streets to try to shut down the parade. Darn near succeeded, but there is a very stubborn Italian community here, including Knights of Columbus.

Eventually, they couldn't find enough nuts to protest when they failed at stopping the parades. And then Ward Churchill was exposed as a fraud and kicked out of town. Now, it's a pretty normal holiday and parade.