Columbus
I hope this link works for you guys. So, yesterday was columbus day, and I noticed that some people are thankful for all that he did…well, what they think he did.
So, for those of you who are interested, here's a link that sums up this man's contributions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html I don't know if the link will work, so if it won't take you to the site, just google his name and every link that pops up tells how cruel he was. How he found peacefull people in all the lands he visited and instead of repaying the islanders with that good Christian love that abounds, he raped and pillaged and held children hostage whle their parents were forced into slavery. Sometimes, if the slaves didn't bring enough gold back at the end of the day, he would cut off a child's hand or arm. His push for imperialism and his significant contribution into colonization along with the cruel behaviors that he practiced and wrote about make him one of the cruelist explorers in history. We only celebrate his day because of the rebellion by the early colonists *****cognized him to **** of England. You all do know that he worked for Spain?
So, thankful to Columbus for discovering America when, in fact, he didn't discover it cannot be parsed from all the awful things that he did. Yet, I believe some people still suppor****er boarding!
So, for those of you who are interested, here's a link that sums up this man's contributions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html I don't know if the link will work, so if it won't take you to the site, just google his name and every link that pops up tells how cruel he was. How he found peacefull people in all the lands he visited and instead of repaying the islanders with that good Christian love that abounds, he raped and pillaged and held children hostage whle their parents were forced into slavery. Sometimes, if the slaves didn't bring enough gold back at the end of the day, he would cut off a child's hand or arm. His push for imperialism and his significant contribution into colonization along with the cruel behaviors that he practiced and wrote about make him one of the cruelist explorers in history. We only celebrate his day because of the rebellion by the early colonists *****cognized him to **** of England. You all do know that he worked for Spain?
So, thankful to Columbus for discovering America when, in fact, he didn't discover it cannot be parsed from all the awful things that he did. Yet, I believe some people still suppor****er boarding!
I am no fan of Columbus, who was just an adventurer who came to this hemisphere to enrich himself and Spain. However, it's really funny to see how horrified you seem to be about his atrocities, which are no less than what those the good ole Pilgrims perpetrated in the name of England and "religious freedom." Don't forget that the Native Americans learned about scalping from the British settlers.
And how about infecting blankets with smallpox and giving the blankets to the Native Americans so they would die and vacate land the Whites coveted? Yep folks, that was done in the U.S.A., not by some swarthy Spaniard, but by patriotic White Americans who wanted to steal Indian land.
So when we are going to throw mud around, we need to beware lest some splatter on us.
And how about infecting blankets with smallpox and giving the blankets to the Native Americans so they would die and vacate land the Whites coveted? Yep folks, that was done in the U.S.A., not by some swarthy Spaniard, but by patriotic White Americans who wanted to steal Indian land.
So when we are going to throw mud around, we need to beware lest some splatter on us.
Actually, it wasn't the pioneers who infected the native Americans but the military/government, which is no different than what the medical community and the government did to the African Americans during slavery and even in the 1950s.
In the 50s, the medical community sterilized African American women, gave African American men syphllis and refused treatment to African American men, and as recent as the 90s was still doing experimental treatment on African American people. So, yeah, we are a really good Christian group of people, us white folks.
That is nothing compared to what they did when they kidnapped and forcibly migrated Africans to this country. And now, now that we have finally come to the point where we can vote an AA man in to office, people are, well. YOu know.
I am Native American, so I think if I want to throw mud, I can.
Yes, Columbus was not someone worth celebrating and, in fact, he most likely was not the first to find America first anyway. I also knew about the British teaching scalping to the Native Americans, and infecting blankets with smallpox.
In South Dakota, they celebrate the day as Native American Day, not Columbus Day. A bit of a turnaround. For me, it's another day to go to work but we don't get mail and the banks are closed. Holiday for some and work for others. Just another day.
Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" if you want to really cry about how Americans have treated Natives; or any book about the Trail of Tears and the Cherokees. I wanted to cry when I read these books. Very, very sad. When Lewis & Clark when up the Missouri, there was a thriving population; a few years later, one of the tribes had been wiped out by diseases the white man brought in.
In South Dakota, they celebrate the day as Native American Day, not Columbus Day. A bit of a turnaround. For me, it's another day to go to work but we don't get mail and the banks are closed. Holiday for some and work for others. Just another day.
Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" if you want to really cry about how Americans have treated Natives; or any book about the Trail of Tears and the Cherokees. I wanted to cry when I read these books. Very, very sad. When Lewis & Clark when up the Missouri, there was a thriving population; a few years later, one of the tribes had been wiped out by diseases the white man brought in.
This is gonna get me into trouble. I am aware of some of the bad stuff Columbus did some I was not. but you know there have always been people doing bad to others. The Indians were so badly treated by our ancestors. Those Indians ancestors were brutal to the people who lived on those lands before newer tribes moved in.
There have been atrocities committed in the name of religion for millina and the people who were treated harshly possibly treated others harshly in their past. I don't think any one people Have been perfect as to how they treated others in the name of religion, race, conquest or other reasons.
Condemning one man doesn't seem kosher. I don't think what Columbus was necessarily right but it was what it was for the times they lived in. Many things we think wrong now were simply done because it was the times they lived in.
There have been atrocities committed in the name of religion for millina and the people who were treated harshly possibly treated others harshly in their past. I don't think any one people Have been perfect as to how they treated others in the name of religion, race, conquest or other reasons.
Condemning one man doesn't seem kosher. I don't think what Columbus was necessarily right but it was what it was for the times they lived in. Many things we think wrong now were simply done because it was the times they lived in.
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