In Elementary were taught that he sailed the ocean blue and came here to America. He was given the money by the queen of Spain and he landed here and made contact with the Indians. He thought he was in India, and therefore mistakenly called them Indians. The people at the moment thought the world was flat and therefore Columbus was crazy for thinking he could reach East by going West. That pretty much summarizes all were taught about Columbus in school. It takes researching by yourself to learn the cruel things he did to the Natives. His personal letters expose the greedy man he was and how he used the sword to subdue Natives into doing whatever he and his men wanted of them. The lush green garden of eden that the Caribbean was said to have been, turned into a living hell. War dogs used to tear Natives apart, the slavery he imposed, the land being raped of its natural resources and the mass slaughter. It was practically a genocide what Columbus did, although many people can debate that, once you read a Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome De Las Casas, their isn't much defense for Columbus or his men. Not to mention out of all the peoples in the Americas, the Tainos were said to be some of the kindest, most innocent of them all, and what Columbus did to them has absolutely no justification. He was a terrible man, extremely hideous of a man. Abolish Columbus Day immediately, the coupons and sales that go on and the day off from school isn't worth it.
I currently have the book with me right now, its very gruesome but worth the read. Lemme read you just a bit
On the island of Puerto Rico & Jamaica,
"Here they perpetrated the same outrages and committed the same crimes as before devising yet further refinements of cruelty, murdering the native people, burning and roasting them alive, throwing them to wild dogs and then oppressing, tormenting and plaguing them with toil down the mines and elsewhere, and so once again killing off these poor innocents to such effect that where the native population of the two islands was certainly over six hundred thousand (and I personally reckon it at more than a million) fewer than two hundred survive on each of the two islands..."
Well, in elementary school through high school us Americans are taught that Columbus was a hero and founded North America. Everything he did to the Native Americans is definitely left out. We were led to believe once he arrived everyone lived happily ever after. Don't know why the US public school system insists on painting him an American hero. Well yeah it takes a college education over her for us to learn he was evil and subjected millions of people to genocide.
He was not a good sailor and his trips were full of mistakes that cost time, lives and ships. He received backing from Spain to explore a new sea trade route and landed in the Bahamas. He then returned to Spain for more backing money and hit land fall in America by mistake.
Children are taught in school that he discovered America as a simple learning tool to capture an easy to remember version of the year and the figure head of exploration, however there were many that arrived here before him.
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In Elementary were taught that he sailed the ocean blue and came here to America. He was given the money by the queen of Spain and he landed here and made contact with the Indians. He thought he was in India, and therefore mistakenly called them Indians. The people at the moment thought the world was flat and therefore Columbus was crazy for thinking he could reach East by going West. That pretty much summarizes all were taught about Columbus in school. It takes researching by yourself to learn the cruel things he did to the Natives. His personal letters expose the greedy man he was and how he used the sword to subdue Natives into doing whatever he and his men wanted of them. The lush green garden of eden that the Caribbean was said to have been, turned into a living hell. War dogs used to tear Natives apart, the slavery he imposed, the land being raped of its natural resources and the mass slaughter. It was practically a genocide what Columbus did, although many people can debate that, once you read a Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome De Las Casas, their isn't much defense for Columbus or his men. Not to mention out of all the peoples in the Americas, the Tainos were said to be some of the kindest, most innocent of them all, and what Columbus did to them has absolutely no justification. He was a terrible man, extremely hideous of a man. Abolish Columbus Day immediately, the coupons and sales that go on and the day off from school isn't worth it.
I currently have the book with me right now, its very gruesome but worth the read. Lemme read you just a bit
On the island of Puerto Rico & Jamaica,
"Here they perpetrated the same outrages and committed the same crimes as before devising yet further refinements of cruelty, murdering the native people, burning and roasting them alive, throwing them to wild dogs and then oppressing, tormenting and plaguing them with toil down the mines and elsewhere, and so once again killing off these poor innocents to such effect that where the native population of the two islands was certainly over six hundred thousand (and I personally reckon it at more than a million) fewer than two hundred survive on each of the two islands..."
Well, in elementary school through high school us Americans are taught that Columbus was a hero and founded North America. Everything he did to the Native Americans is definitely left out. We were led to believe once he arrived everyone lived happily ever after. Don't know why the US public school system insists on painting him an American hero. Well yeah it takes a college education over her for us to learn he was evil and subjected millions of people to genocide.
He was not a good sailor and his trips were full of mistakes that cost time, lives and ships. He received backing from Spain to explore a new sea trade route and landed in the Bahamas. He then returned to Spain for more backing money and hit land fall in America by mistake.
Children are taught in school that he discovered America as a simple learning tool to capture an easy to remember version of the year and the figure head of exploration, however there were many that arrived here before him.
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