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Posted on 10/12/2015 7:35:28 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
It’s not because he was the “first”, but because his voyage has proven to be the most significant and historically altering
My wife and I were watching a show on the History Channel about who was really the first to discover America. Why? First, we both love shows that get us to think “Wow, I never knew that.” Second, I always start with the hope that the show will puncture some educational pomposity.
Luckily for us, both my chance to say “Gee, I didn’t know that” AND watch some of the pomposity of our liberal leaning educators exposed was achieved.
Anyone with the slightest level of intelligence must have realized that it couldn’t have been Columbus who “discovered” America. Native Americans (which actually weren’t native at all) “discovered” America sometime between 14,000 and 15,000 years ago when they walked across the Bearing Sea land bridge that formed a way to travel from Siberia to Alaska and then spread throughout the then unpopulated western hemisphere.
They hate him because of his primary commission -
to spread the Gospel of Christ.
Because he won’t stop pimping his dang blog.
It goes back to the 1960s attack on traditional history, which actually accelerated in the “conservative” 1980s, when the popular Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., chanted “Hey, ho, hey, ho, Western Civ’s got to go!”
And I keep seeing articles about town after town changing the day to American Indian day....
I hate PC
Reminds me of the old joke...They say that Christopher Columbus was the first Democrat. When he left to discover America, he didn’t know where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. And it was all done on a government grant.
White, Christian male.
Despisers of those that are good - 2 Timothy 3:3
Does the author mean the Bahamas?
Bermuda is like 700 miles east of North Carolina, and a thousand miles north of Puerto Rico.
I hate it when Conservatives make a glaring error about history or science.
It gives the Left a wide open door to mock our alleged ignorance and to dismiss the basically sound argument the author was making.
It’s interesting that cities are replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Day because “the indigenous people here first”.
American, taxpaying citizens were “here first” over the hoards of illegal aliens but they ignore that.
“Christopher” => “Christ Bringer”.
Ever read “The Light and the Glory”?
Because a white guy managed to cross an ocean that the brown people couldn’t advance far enough culturally and technically to even venture 2 miles out into.
And that is evil in 2015, so we have to celebrate indigenous people day. People that haven’t even heard of a blasted wheel and barely knew what writing was.
Whenever people start bad-mouthing Columbus around me, my kids included, I ask them why they’re still in the US and when are they planning to leave.
Usually shuts them up.
By all accounts Columbus we a pretty brutal task-master, even for his time. However, that is probably what it took to have the guts to make such a voyage in the first place.
I hate it when people say Columbus brought genocide (meaning diseases) because in his day they did not know about germs and bacteria and viruses at all and had no way of knowing or predicting that the introduction of such things (which they didn’t know about) would kill so many people.
At the end of the day, people are just angry at history, as if that will change anything. Any number of bad things were done throughout history, mixed in with the good things ... which brought us to where we are today. Without all the stuff that happened before, both good and bad, we would not be here living as we do now. You can play What-If forever but it doesn’t change anything.
So people just have to accept that history is what it is. It is immutable. The ONLY direction we can go in is forward ... as it was in Columbus’ day, as it ever was and ever will be.
No, but now that you mention it I may have to.
Worth the read?
Why is it that, on St. Patrick’s Day, we Americans dress up in green, get drunk and do a bunch of Irish crap and, on Cinco De Mayo, we dress up in green and red, get drunk and do a bunch of Mexican crap but, on Columbus Day, we don’t dress up, get drunk and do a bunch of Italian crap?
White male Christian from the West.
They might have been "here first", but they came from somewhere else. People are not "indigenous" to North America.
Because his name is “Columbus” and not “Demetrius Shakira”.
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