Why don't we see anyone celebrating Native Americans and their accomplishments this week instead of hating on a man?

everything has to be based on hate

I am frankly tired of the guy being villified....so he brought white man to the new world??? It would've happened eventually.........

Yes. Vikings had been in North America well before ol Chris fell into it.

But it's what he did once he got here that has earned him his place in villainy. If he were alive today, and did what he did then, he would be tried for crimes against humanity.

If he were alive today, and arrived by ship from Spain - Biden would usher him into the country and giver him welfare.

Because white man bad, have you heard? they're responsible for every ill that exists in the world today. Imagine the Garden of Eden it would be without the evil Europeans invading it. *Eye roll* as if every other race is innocent of wrongdoing ever in the entire history of man.

So what you’re saying is that, nevermind the genocide that ensued at Columbus’ behest, the atrocities that Columbus personally committed should simply be overlooked because it makes you a little uncomfortable?

I mean, history books are written by the victors. If the Nazis won WWII, the Holocaust wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Me who's a native of the very lands he explored and married to an ancestor of the African slaves should totally ignore the negative effects the European exploration had on MY people. 🙄

Actually why can't we talk about both the negative and positive effects of the Columbian Exchange? And what life would be like if it had never happened? Would it have been better for the world all around if it never happened? Do you think you would be sitting at your computer right now enjoying all the freedoms that our country has to offer (albeit gained with blood sweat and tears from all races) if Columbus had never set foot outside of Spain?

You want to speak of woulda-coulda-shouldas instead of what actually *is.*

What Columbus accomplished was nothing short of miraculous, even if he discovered something utterly by accident. What he proceeded to do as a result of his relative incompetence is nothing short of a horror story.

Christopher Columbus was not a good man. He was actually, objectively, a terrible human being. Remove the “discovery of the New World” BS from the equation, do you still erect statues to him? No, you wouldn’t.

If it turns out Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine by experimenting on and murdering thirty children (or even one child), I don’t think he’d be lauded as a hero today.

Just because you want to cling to the fairy tale narrative that was taught to kids doesn’t negate the fact that CC was the historical equivalent of Josef Stalin.

Okay, that’s a ridiculous comparison. Columbus certainly wasn’t a good person, but to call him a genocidal maniac on par with Hitler and Stalin shows your ignorance of history. The fact is that Columbus was big on slavery and a lot of slaves died of disease when working in the New World. Plenty of people died slaving under Columbus and you can certainly make the argument that Columbus is guilty of negligent homicide for everyone that died under him, but to compare his crimes to the intentional exterminations carried out by Hitler or Stalin is just ridiculous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-christopher-columbus/2015/10/08/3e80f358-6d23-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html

Is Stalin a weak comparison? It’s fair to grant you that.

How about Idi Amin?

Did you actually read your source material? Did you see this link referenced? The one where it basically said he was a colossal POS and a “barbaric tyrant?”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain

Probably not. But yeah let’s build a bunch of statues to the barbaric tyrant.

We are talking about this in school now.

Have you read up on ol Chris did, according to his own journals? He'd be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity. It's best if he was left to history.

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I think more huwhites "celebrate" this than anyone else. Kinda like Juneteenth.