Columbus' discovery was bad for the Native Americans

[fedupfisherman]

I can fully understand why Native Americans hate Columbus Day.

[Zywiec]

1. Let's boycot Monday and show up for work!!! n/t

[Bennyboy]

17. LOL! n/t

[11 Bravo]

2. Many aboriginal cultures suffered at the hands of European "discoverers".

It's been fairly well documented. What's your point?

[UTUSN]

3. You've got MY vote!!1

http://notexasborderwall.com/

[Zywiec]

4. Your vote for what? n/t

[yardwork]

5. We celebrate the claiming of half the globe by Spain.

Columbus Day amuses me. Most "Americans" don't have a clue what we're really celebrating.

[Zywiec]

7. What celebrating do you usual witness?

[yardwork]

10. Well, ok, if you're going to get SPECIFIC. lol!

[janx]

6. Yes indeed it was! n/t

[earthside]

8. Have you heard ...

... what the Mongols led by Genghis Khan did to the native people of central Europe?

And the people of Mongolia venerate Genghis Khan to this very day!

[Disturbed]

9. Can't we let the Italians feel proud of Columbus?

They think that he was a great man. Why spoil their illusion?

[Bluerthanblue]

11. uh, wasn't he from Spain?

[fedupfisherman]

12. Genoa

I bet he relished terrorizing the Native Americans

[Glorfindel]

14. He was an Italian, sponsored by the Spanish monarchs

A very good investment on their part, actually. I think his birth name was Colombo, and in Spanish it's Cristobal Colon.

[deadmessengers]

16. Cristoforo Colombo, to be exact...

Christopher Columbus was an Anglicization of his name.

[Glorfindel]

18. I love Anglicized names! St.-Denis becomes "Sidney"

Infanta de Castile becomes "Elephant and Castle." We even mangle our OWN language, as when God Encompasseth Us becomes "Goat and Compasses." Columbus got off light. :hi:

[SDuderstadt]

27. Question

Peter Falk played Colombo on TV...same guy?

[SDuderstadt]

28. More trivia

I am also relatively certain that Cristobal Colon had a half-brother named Semi.

[yardwork]

23. Actually, some historians think that Columbus might have been born in Spain.

It's possible that he was born in Spain and moved to Genoa later.

[Book Lover]

20. Well, you can kiss my shiny Italian ass.

Not all of us are pleased with this holiday, but thank you so very much for your arrogant attitude.

[daninthemoon]

13. Do the people of central Europe celebrate it?

[Glorfindel]

15. Have you read "1491" by Charles C. Mann?

It's very enlightening as to what a catastrophe took place following Columbus' "discoveries."

[Robbien]

24. This is Hell radio show did a half hour interview with him yesterday

Very enlightening. 1491 is now on my list of to be read books.

[earthside]

25. Which begs the question ...

... if you are now living in the United States: is your existence a catastrophe?

Or the existence of millions and millions of human beings living in Central and South America over the past 500 years, were/are they a catastrophe?

Is it reasonable to believe that the North and South American continents would have remained isolated from the rest of the world forever?

Or was the arrival of Europeans to the western hemisphere inevitable? Or is it just the ideology of the Roman Catholic Church and the culture of the Spainish that was particularly harmful to the indigenous Americans starting 500 years ago? What does that say about current hispanic culture?

[Spinzonner]

19. Homo Sapiens weren't so good for Neanderthals

There seems to be a pattern for similar primates inhabiting the same areas.

[havocmom]

21. Worked with a Navajo woman who called this holiday "there goes the neighborhood day"

Don't blame her a bit

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. Columbus never actually set foot on the North American continent...

He basically explored the Caribbean islands and parts of Central and South America but never even made it to Florida, much less any other part of North America.

http://www.bartleby.com/67/572.html

[Maq]

26. The Native People WON

Celebrate Columbus day at your pleasure.


The American Indian War has gone Global.

[JCMach1]

29. Celebrate it definitely, but not innocently... use it as a time

to look back at the Genocide and build momentum for a Native American Genocide remembrance day.

[fujiyama]

30. Yeah but Vangelis composed a cool soundtrack for the movie I never saw!

Personally, I'll never figure out why he's a hero. The guy got lost. And the people of this continent got named after the people of another country...

And of course, there's that whole genocide thing complete with germ/biological warfare...

[Maq]

31. This almost sounds like BUSH

No hero there either