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.
It starts with the fact that he didn’t discover America, there’s a certain level of irritation that comes from learning your teachers lied to you for years. Then he became a symbol for everything that’s happened to Indians, none of which is really his fault but as the “discoverer” he’s easy to blame. Add into that our modern fondness for applying modern morality to historical times and really he’s doomed. The funny part is people probably care more about him now than ever. Used to be Columbus was just one of those no mail days that rolled by without most folks paying much attention. Now it’s huge, mostly people complaining, but still a much bigger deal.
Because none of the beer companies saw the opportunity.
It is sad that the Spaniards thought there was gold on the island of Hispaniola, and worked the Taino to extinction in the mines.
There is a museum to Columbus, for which the roof is designed with a huge cross of skylights. When lit from within, it is said that the building is visible from space.
Excellent. And there’s a “youth” version as well.
The ironic thing is the ripples in time that would have happened if Colombus had not discovered America. All those idiots complaining about him would likely not even be alive, if something that significant had happened.
Chances are, none of us would exist and a whole different group of people would exist... along with another big group of whiners complaining about some other historical figure.
Because Columbus was the one who started bringing Christianity into the New World. The left hates Christianity and wants to stamp it out. It has demonized Columbus and blamed him for all the ills in the New World.
Could is be because Columbus was Italian and not Spanish (Hispanic)..he makes a perfect scapegoat to shield Hispanic culture from PC attack?
Columbus sailed under the Spanish flag.. and it was Spanish Conquistador that did all these things that our PC friends complain about.....
yet it never anything "Hispanic" that get any attack from our PC friends ....it fact "Hispanic" now co-opt the Native American/Indian identity....and its Columbus and then the English American that get all the PC blame....
Terrific book ‘Admiral of the Ocean Sea’ by Samuel Morison
Morison and crew research and retrace Columbus’ voyage. Using Columbus’ logs, diary, descriptions to determine where he landed and explored.
A fascinating book.
Gave me an admiration, appreciation of Christopher Columbus. The voyage was no small feat.
To do that they invent absurdities like he was trying to "prove that the world was round" which is silly as the fact the world was round was common knowledge.
When you point out that if there had been no America to run into Columbus would have gotten every one on his little expedition killed smoke pours out of their ears.
Don't even try to bring up his mistreatment of the Spanish colonists or the fact he was sent back to Spain in chains. (Isabella pardoned him.)
If you point out his mathematics as to the circumference of the world were worse then wrong and that this was a problem solved a couple of millennium before he was born they jump right back to "he was trying to prove the world was round".
I guess they used worm holes to travel to the islands in the Caribbean?
I denigrate it because Ohio State is there.
Go Michigan!
I’m not a Michigan fan, but you have to give Harbaugh much credit. Perhaps he would like to be Trump’s VP?
As you state in your post, only the willfully ignorant would believe that Columbus “discovered” America. Columbus DID come to the New World and it was an historically significant event - no matter who was “first”. Chances are, in very ancient times, a people we’re not even aware of came to what is now the Americas. Not all “native” peoples walked across the Bering Land Bridge. There are far too many physical, cultural and linguistic differences between tribes of native peoples.
What came out in that show, albeit indirectly, was the arrogance of the modern archaeological community. The utter disregard of the oral history of native peoples doesn’t comport with the conclusions of the archaeological community, so they’re summarily pronounced wrong: The Cherokees must’ve built a fortification that appears to be Welsh, although Cherokee oral history indicates that it was built by “blue-eyed white people”; numerous linguistic, physical and cultural similarities between the Mandan peoples and the Welsh are merely coincidental; supposed similarities between the Japanese Jomon culture and Valdivians in Ecuador are “nonsense” and the list goes on.
All the ancient stories of the Chinese, Polynesians, Welsh, Irish, Norse, etc. coming to what is now the Americas are nothing more than legends. That is, until 1960, when L’Anse aux Meadows was discovered in Newfoundland. Modern archaeologists would have us believe that archaeology is an exact science, which it most certainly is not; “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” and not everything that fails to comport with your narrow conclusions and “settled science” has to be a fraud.
Well stated.
Indubitably, the Western World, all those powers which controlled the world uncontested in the 15th century, did not know of the New World, until the discovery of Christopher Columbus.
The later actions by the Conquistadors, advanced their empire by conquering their adversaries. The Catholic Church condoned the actions as part of their domain over the world from their perspective.
Those three double-wides he sailed should have sunk in mid-Atlantic![/sarcasm]
I like the way you think.
Bering
Speculation is a wonderful toy.
Hatred of Western Civ and white people is on the uptick
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