Posted on 12/16/2016 5:43:31 AM PST by kevcol
The National Endowment for the Arts is helping fund the production of a play about going back in time to kill Christopher Columbus.
The agency recently awarded $10,000 to the Borderlands Theater, which views people living near or on the U.S. border as “citizens of the world,” for the production entitled “Shooting Columbus.”
“A collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Arizona artists will combine elements from interviews with tribal elders and community members with movement, media, and traditional theater for a site-based, immersive, interactive performance,” according to a grant for the project. “The guest artists are members of the Shooting Columbus Collective, a group of artists of diverse ethnic backgrounds.”
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Well then, how about conferring “citizen of the world” status on the illegals, without granting any of the things that go with the status of being a citizen of the USA, such as voting or anything else that came from Columbus’ arrival forward?
... not on the enumerated list in Article 1 Section 8.
Next?
69 million plus for Stalin
Another 150 million for Mao
....and that would have hidden the western hemisphere for eternity, allowing the locals to to continue butchering each other for a piece of land.
Even if someone went back in time to murder Columbus, it wouldn’t have made any difference.
I’ve occasionally contemplated what would have happened if his ships had been destroyed by a hurricane ... it was, after all, prime hurricane season in the Atlantic.
Sooner or later, someone else would have gotten the idea of sailing west to get to India/China, and discovered there was a new unknown land mass in the way, and history would have progressed from that point.
Remember, that’s our dime.
Libs are nothing but hateful.
***If Columbus hadn’t discovered it someone else eventually would.***
On the 22nd April 1500, Pedro Alvares Cabral, discovered Brazil.
***Had American aborigines the political organization and ships, they would just as naturally have attempted the conquest of Europe***
They would have then brought home the European diseases and still died off.
Best suggestion!
But have a care with your 'time travels' as you might kill your grandfather then and thus cease to exist now!
Regards,
GtG
These idiots need a history lesson. Assassinating Columbus would not have prevented European explorers from reaching the Americas. Columbus was not even the first European to do so; the Vikings had reached Canada over 400 years earlier. Their colony did not survive and lead to widespread European settlement of the New World, but the tales of Viking exploration were known in Europe.
Also, contrary to the myth that’s been promulgated, nobody in 15th Century Europe with any kind of education seriously thought the world is flat. Columbus was not some pioneering visionary fighting a bunch of unenlightened flat-earthers. To the contrary, it was actually the consensus opinion that was right and Columbus who was wrong. Columbus set sail westward to reach the Orient because he severely underestimated the size of the earth. Prevailing opinion on the earth’s size was pretty accurate. Ships of the time could never have completed the journey from Europe to the Orient even if the Americas were not in the way. Columbus had just about reached the limit of his range when his ships found land in the Caribbean.
Thatwas the true reason that European monarchs were reluctant to sponsor Columbus. They thought the voyage too unlikely to succeed. Spain’s monarchs though were thwarted by Portugal on the route around Africa to India. They likely had also heard tales of lands to the west from African peoples encountered during earlier exploration. (There is some evidence for pre-Columbian contact between west Africa and Brazil). They were therefore willing to gamble on Columbus finding unknown land to the west. It was not an utter shock when these lands were found.
Had Columbus not proposed his voyage, it is nearly certain that later explorers would have found the New World. There were inklings that it existed, both Spain and Portugal (and later France, England, and Holland) had both the ability and the desire to find and settle new land.
It would just have been a matter of time before another explorer did what Columbus did, although the pattern of exploration may well have bern altered. An Rnglish expedition to find the old Viking lands may well have led to the first discoveries taking place in Canada or New England. A Portuguese ship rounding Africa may have gotten blown off course and landed in Brazil. Regardless, the Americas would have been explored and conquered even had Columbus never lived.
Yea, I wonder how that plot would work historically speaking. Would some indigenous person travel across a wild ocean in a ship! No, they couldn’t even imagine a ship or crossing the Ocean.
Would they shot poor Columbus? No, they had never invented gun powder nor any firearm! Nothing, except the crude stone hatched did they posses to kill Columbus. They didn’t even have bow’s and arrows!
When Columbus arrived in the “New World” the indigenous population had no written language or numerical system. The only animal they had ever domesticated was the dog!
Should be a Great Play!
If the Injuns had stuck together instead of killing each
other, they’d have probably done better. (I say that as
Cherokee blood on both sides of my family.)
Yes, if Columbus had never drawn breath, the Americas would have been discovered within the decade anyway by someone who was on his way to India. So the Indians would have been doomed in any case. I cannot imagine any scenario where things work out well for them.
There is evidence the Basque knew how to get go North America from the voyages following the cod.
The English may have been out there as well. Columbus was in England and may have heard stories. As I used to tell my students, fishermen tend to keep the hot spots to themselves, so the knowledge wouldn’t have made it into common knowledge.
Founded in 1965, the start of the golden age when the slide towards the era of unbridled government waste by questionable elected criminals? Just great!
With a budget of over $146,000,000, it may have overstayed its usefulness. Surely, it obviously CAN"T be "Independent," if they are parasites of the American taxpayer's purse.
In an era of overdone social activism which has drifted into criminal behavior it sure needs a close look. Certainly, in the age of the $22 Trillion national debt, I'm sure its elimination will not be missed.
Is there no limit to its decadence? What's next, The pleasures of anthropophagy?
I am sure that Hollywood, The First Rapist's zillionnaire pervert friends and the huge population of GLBTQWERTYXYZ eager fans can afford to support this irrelevant agency, and they can knock themselves out producing any sort of garbage they wish.
I am so happy to learn that he might get all the help he needs from Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone...
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