Posted on 10/11/2019 10:19:43 AM PDT by luke1825
Flying from Rome to Boston on Alitalia on Columbus Day, I fell asleep and dreamed that Christopher Columbus was seated beside me. He had the window seat.
“ What did I do wrong?” he asked in my dream. “ Why do people hate me?”
“ I’m not sure,” I said.
“ How did I go from a hero to a bum?”
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One thing you can say about Columbus, he changed history enough that no one alive today would be here if he had failed to exist. Not a one, from indigenous peoples to colonizers. I doubt even “undiscovered” tribes have avoided enough contact to be exempt. Or maybe they would have been “discovered” had someone else explored the new world, which would have eventually happened anyway.
Oh sure, people would still be here, but not you or I. We should give Columbus some “props”, unless we’re self-hating leftists.
Had Columbus never “sailed the ocean blue”,
the New World would have still been discovered in 1500 by ..
Pedro Álvares Cabral
He was a white guy.
And just how much different would the world be today IF a boat load of American Indians had somehow landed in Europe in 1490, then went home to tell of their discovery.
Not much, because they still would have taken home lots of European diseases, and left some of theirs behind. Then they would have been followed by better armed galleons loaded for bear!
We might have had a District of Cabral, cocaine from Cabral, and Cabral movie studios.
But Amerigo Vespucci would have still stolen the name of the country and continents.
Captain Columbus - You are still a hero to many of us! Keep the faith! This will pass someday
Pete needs to lay off the booze in the airport lounge.
The discovery of America is probably the greatest Black Swan event in history. The people Columbus discovered were still in the Stone Age. However, Columbus was still kind of a doofus for believing he’d hit India.
Pocahontas (the other one) sailed to England where she died.
Columbus’ explorations led to the greatest country and society in the history of the world the US. I support a holiday in his favor. The Indians were overwhelmed by a superior culture technologically, militarily, and every other way.
This is what he did wrong:
God bless Vespucciland!
—Firesign Theater
Ice Age mariners from Europe were America’s first inhabitants
Notice no mention of the cannibal Carib tribes who routinely ate each other and other peace loving cannibal Indians. No mention of the Aztecs sacrificing 100s of thousands of surrounding tribesmen. No mention of the incident on Jamaica where the natives planned to eat Columbus and his crew...
Indigenous don’t commit crimes Donchano.
If it wasn’t for fear of neighboring cannibal tribes, Massasoit would not have made an alliance with the pilgrims. He would have eaten white man meat for Harvest Festival and then taken the white women for squaws
good for him
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