What is MOST ridiculous about the anti Columbus brigades among the “Hispanic” community is that it is not a precisely, or merely a “native American” community but a PRODUCT, in historical and genetic facts, of Spanish colonialism, and with no Columbus:
1. There are no Spanish conquests in the Western Hemisphere.
2. There are no communities of “native Americans” drug north of the Rio Grande as part of Spanish colonialism and particularly not Mextec and Aztec communities that never had settlements more than 200 miles north of Mexico City.
3. There would be no “Hispanic speaking” Catholic rich communities in the Western Hemisphere, and in affect no “Spanish & native mixed” societies in all of the Western Hemisphere, and they are societies that ARE in every way more “Hispanic” than “native American” by culture.
Yet they don’t want to celebrate Columbus without whom known of what they have about “Hispanic” culture in the Western Hemisphere would exist.
So why do they do it. It is mostly out of ignorance, an ignorance played upon by Marxists and others whose real targets are not Columbus or the royalty that sent him to the Western Hemisphere, but merely that in the course of all that Columbus led to that Marxism did not rise in triumph every where in the “Hispanic” world.
I’ll belive they are turning their backs on their past and the conquistadors when they stop speaking Spanish as if it was a sacred birthright.