[CondoleezzaProtege]

Although these matters are very wonderful and unheard of, they would have been much more so if ships to a reasonable amount had been furnished me. But what has been accomplished is great and wonderful, and not at all proportionate to my deserts, but to the sacred Christian faith, and to the piety and religion of our Sovereigns. For what the mind of man could not compass, the spirit of God has granted to mortals. For God is wont to listen to his servants who love his precepts, even in impossibilities, as has happened to me in the present instance, who have accomplished what human strength has hitherto never attained. For, if any one has written or told anything about these islands, all have done so either obscurely or by guesswork, so that it has almost seemed to be fabulous.

Therefore let King and Queen and Princes, and their most fortunate realms, and all other Christian provinces, let us all return thanks to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has bestowed so great a victory and reward upon us; let there be processions and solemn sacrifices prepared; let the churches be decked with festal boughs; let Christ rejoice upon earth as he rejoices in heaven, as he foresees that so many souls of so many people heretofore lost are to be saved; and let us be glad not only for the exaltation of our faith, but also for the increase of temporal prosperity, in which not only Spain, but all Christendom is about to share.

As these things have been accomplished, so have they been briefly narrated.

Farewell.

Christopher Colom,
Admiral of the Ocean Fleet.

[Reno89519]

I say exclusively blame the Spanish. Look at what they did. Look at any place they colonized. Every one of the remains a cesspool. By comparison celebrate the balance of our European colonization and uplifting across the new world.

[equaviator]

I remember some guy I worked with attempting to defame Bugs Bunny for allegedly being gay. What an idiot!

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’m pretty sure you can find Catholics defaming the legacy of Columbus by the bus load.

[blueplum]

there was a whole lot of greed and ruthlessness in the AI world long before Columbus stepped out on the sand with his contingent of Latinx soldiers.

[Missouri gal]

The journals of Lewis and Clark describe the American natives as “pore and dirty.” They treated all females as slaves and held other slaves, as well. They were extremely promiscuous, lazy, and most were near starvation. Hardly the idyllic life painted for us.

[GOP Poet]

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