Posted on 10/09/2017 11:47:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The leftists, because of their evil self-righteous nature, want to count only the bad. From what I've read Columbus committed or allowed appalling atrocities, including murder, rape, slavery, theft, and more. But he was the first modern European to sail "off the map" to North America.
Well actually he was trying to find another way to India, if you remember your history lesson.
Yes he was. Some people are really ignorant, and that is a shame
BTW he regrets that he didn't.
Meh, Columbus is over credited. And now over blamed. He wasn’t the first, good chunks of Europe already knew there was another contintnet, he didn’t even hit the US proper, and the important part was really what came after (half of Europe) not him. So he probably doesn’t actually deserve a holiday, he also doesn’t deserve all this hatred.
There is a fair amount of evidence that Basque fishermen chasing cod were very aware of North America.
What does he regret exactly? All I know is he promised the truth would come out and all the details, and then nothing.
And Lief Ericson and some oddly negroid statues in South America. Really Columbus’ big accomplishment is that the link he established between continents stuck. But that’s really more to do with timing than anything else, he “found” the Americas at a time when Europe was looking to expand their influence.
Columbus discovered a new continent to the rest of the world. A country within that continent would become the United States, which is the hope of free people everywhere. He also proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the Earth was round.
Whatever else Columbus did on the other side of the ledger, it is dwarfed by his achievements. He was not responsible for millions being enslaved. That can’t be put on his shoulders.
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