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Why Do People Hate or Denigrate Columbus?
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/12/15 | Jim Yardley

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.


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; godsgravesglyphs; laraza; nativeamericans
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To: OrangeHoof

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?

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used to be Columbus day parades in the northeast in cities with large Italian populations and all the churches held spaghetti dinners.


41 posted on 10/12/2015 11:55:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: discostu

All white liberals who complain about Columbus should lead by example... and leave the U.S.A. immediately. Go back to Europe and hang with your new Muslim pals.


42 posted on 10/12/2015 12:02:04 PM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
They managed to island hop during the last Ice Age when the water levels were much lower. That isnt exactly a feat of genius.



And still on top of that, many Caribbean islands were uninhabited, so isn't like these people were master ocean-goers.
43 posted on 10/12/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: angcat

I don’t know about America, but I think they discovered the Broncos last Sunday. ;^)


44 posted on 10/12/2015 2:49:06 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: VanDeKoik
Except they continued to travel from island to island and there were very few uninhabited islands in the Caribbean.

So I guess we are back to wormholes.

45 posted on 10/12/2015 5:15:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Cvengr
lol
What a day people have wiped Columbus off the earth. Such a sad sorry country we have become.
46 posted on 10/12/2015 6:41:27 PM PDT by angcat
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47 posted on 10/17/2015 4:02:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Christopher Columbus - Secret Jew

48 posted on 10/19/2015 7:56:49 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: VanDeKoik

YOu mean global warming already happened and nobody told us????

/sarc


49 posted on 10/19/2015 7:57:57 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Why Do People Hate or Denigrate Columbus?

Because he's dead, which means they don't have to worry about him showing up at their house and beating the sh*t out of 'em.

50 posted on 10/19/2015 8:20:34 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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