Posted on 10/10/2023 2:06:01 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
The real Columbus, whom few today know much about, is an exemplary figure worthy of celebrating for many reasons. He was born in 1451 in the port city of Genoa, in what is now Italy, and was named Cristoforo Colombo. It has been said that he chose to call himself Christopher Columbus because he liked what this name meant. In Latin, Columbus means “dove” while Christopher means “Christ-bearer.”
Some modern-day revisionist historians have taken cheap shots at Columbus, taking a chapter out of Lenin in charging him with being an imperialist.
...Seen from the big picture, Columbus Day is worth keeping and honoring because it was foundational to founding a new nation by people who largely shared the core beliefs and the qualities of character that were also exhibited by Columbus.
(Excerpt) Read more at institutefc.org ...
The whole article is like a seven minute read.
I Learned a lot from this post. Thank you!
It was to the great good fortune of all mankind that European Christians discovered America and not someone else.
Those same European Christians would go on to make so many scientific advances as well as advances in law, business, culture, etc that they would come to dominate the world. They in fact created the entire modern world. Hospitals, antibiotics, germ theory, DNA, Gene Sequencing, the internal combustion engine, cars, trains, airplanes, the telegraph, telephone, television, the Internet, movies, refrigeration, air conditioning and central heating, electricity, space travel, satellites, and on and on and on. All of it and much much more...White, Western, Christian men. All of it.
While they were at it, they also came up with Democracy and the Rights of Man.
Yes, its a very good thing that such people were the ones who discovered and largely populated two more vast continents. Some cultures are better than others. Western Civilization is simply better than the rest. No, I don’t care if anyone is upset by that obviously true statement.
Just shut up and enjoy the benefits of Western Civilization such as the free speech you are using to whine about it.
The “indigenous day people” can go pound sand.
[Why Columbus Day Should Be Celebrated]
But, it’s really cool to be attacking Columbus and stuff these days!!
Modern political correctness says we need to rewrite history to make Native Americans look like saints while Europeans are white devils. The reality is far different but we can’t let that stand in the way of people’s feelings. Especially minorities who need a boogeyman in order to feel special.
I have a lefty acquaintance who went on about how Europeans coming here was the worst thing that could have happened to native Americans. I asked, what do you think the Nazis would have done to them in WWII without the European descendants in America helping beat them in WWII? Mechanized troops vs natives on horseback. He had no answer, but it’s obvious: complete extermination. That usually ends these discussions if I bother with them.
Yep. Grandson came home from school that day saying Columbus was a bad man. Young children being indoctrinated to hate.
I hope on a visit to Costa Rica to go to Limon where Columbus washed ashore.
It would have been worse than that.
The natives would have been on foot.
The Spanish brought horses to the New World.
Native Americans had wars, genocides, and slavery long before Europeans arrived. The tribe that currently owns the Black Hills were not its original owners. They were given it by the U.S. government because the original owners were wiped out by another tribe. I told this to a Native American once and all they could do is get angry at me, but not refute it.
If Indians want some special Indian holiday we don’t need to put it on the same date as Columbus Day.
Columbus entered a land WITH slavery, and effectively ended cannibalism in the New World.
I like to think I know a bit about history but somehow forgot that fact. Thanks for the reminder.
For the Left to succeed in destroying America part of the plan is to paint our history as evil. Americans proud of their past won’t tolerate the kind of change they want.
The popularized image of the American Indian is the Apache on horse back.
But the truth of the matter is that prior to the arrival of the Europeans the American Indian was somewhat more primitive than Stone Age society in that they did not even build stone structures.
Idealizing the American Indian as being in harmony with nature may have an element of truth of it but one does not have to be exposed to the harshest elements of weather to be at peace with nature.
And with a little thought you can imagine how many animals give up their lives to make a wigwam that will last only a few years but a house made of field stone can last a century or more as can a log cabin.
Man can be in harmony with nature and be comfortable.
Good points. I knew about all that but never hurts to get a brief refresher.
Also, the revisionist idea of “peaceful at harmony with nature” native Americans is garbage. Various tribes had wars with each other involving extermination of entire tribes for centuries before Europeans even knew North and South America existed.
We have to remember the meme though pushed by our “education” system: white man bad, everyone else except maybe Jewish people good.
Today would be so cool. Is there a marker on the site?
He never set foot on or even saw what is now the US or Canada, sailed for the Spanish monarchy, and the only reason it is a federal holiday is because FDR needed Catholic votes and it coincided with the Knights of Columbus lobbying Congress and the administration. Can he be admired? Yes. Should he have his own holiday in the United States. No.
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