Posted on 10/11/2021 4:57:27 AM PDT by NOBO2012
If Columbus Day was a Bill O’Reilly book:
(Apologies to Michael Ramirez. And, I guess, Bill O’Reilly.)
Gary Kasparov, former chess slave under the former Soviet Union regime, has this to say about woke America’s commitment to cancelling Christopher Columbus:
(Columbus) achieved great things and is worthy of being honored for them with a national holiday. His incredible feats of exploration were due to individual qualities that Americans should find admirable, and once did in near unanimity. Holding historical figures to modern standards of morality is a method of antihistorical political control—much like the pseudohistory I grew up being taught in the Soviet Union.
… Soviet history books portrayed these men as callow imperialists who exploited the natives the way their capitalist descendants exploited the proletariat. This also prepared me to hear the same tropes repeated by Western leftists today…
Their accomplishments should not blind us to their flaws, but neither should their flaws blind us to their achievements…
History is not a zero-sum game. We can honor indigenous people and all they represent—and all they lost—without erasing the greatest achievements of the Age of Discovery. I will be celebrating Columbus Day, and I hope you’ll join me. - WSJ
I will happily join Mr. Kasparov, but Columbus fans in Philadelphia will no doubt be in mourning again this year as the Columbus statue in Marconi square remains in a plywood box where it’s been since June of 2020, ostensibly for safekeeping against the marauding hordes.
Columbus’ light getting put under a bushel in June, 2020 where it remains today due to yet another court overruling a lower court order
It is truly a mark of our lawless times that a statue of a great historical explorer needs to be shut away to prevent it from being destroyed. Shameful and ultimately suicidal.
*The first post I wrote titled “Goodbye Columbus” was written in 2009. I was so much younger then and actually thought we could and would turn this nonsense around. I didn’t think I could grow more cynical than I was at that point but history has proven me wrong, again.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
It’s not about Columbus. It’s an attack at the very fundamentals of this country, Europeans, Christians.
They don’t hate Columbus for stealing the land. They hate him for bringing Christianity here.
Columbus Day to be replaced by St. George Floyd Day.
Let’s be blunt. White Americans historically did some real bad things to Native Americans.
But Native Americans also did some real bad things to each other. For centuries. Also without the USA, the Nazis would have won WWII. Imagine Nazi mechanized infantry vs. people riding horseback and using primitive weapons. The Nazis would have simply exterminated the Native Americans. Also, more people of Native American descent are alive now than ever in their history.
History is not simple or clear cut. But could people (not referring to most Freepers) learn some basic history?!
With the internet and social media, groups can organize any events without relying on government bureaucrats.
We now know the “infected blanket” lie is a disgusting slander originated by non other than the execrable fraud Ward Churchill.
The plains Indians are now recognized as one of the most warlike group of people documented. There was very little option other than all out war.
The Anisazi - the Ancestral Puebloans? They were eaten by their enemies in order to terrorize them. They are gone now, not so much as a sprig of parsley left.
The Aztecs? So despised by their neighbors that upon the arrival of the Conquistadors, local communities united with the Spaniards in order to annihilate the murderous beast-like Aztecs who had abused, terrified and slaughtered their men, women and children over the decades.
Fortunately thinking people are beyond this now and my directly Native American Patriot children have full access to American society and prosperity the left would instantly deny them if given a chance. Such is the greatness of American culture and such is the depravity of leftist scum.
Ref on scumbagger Churchill:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/—did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext
There’s no such thing as indigenous people and Indians did not build America. Long live Columbus.
My short list of Indian warfare before the White Man arrived.
https://frontierpartisans.com/3942/crow-creek-massacre/
https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://westerndigs.org/skeletons-in-utah-cave-are-victims-of-prehistoric-war-study-says/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
http://westerndigs.org/infamous-mass-grave-of-young-women-in-ancient-city-of-cahokia-also-holds-men-study/
http://westerndigs.org/mass-grave-of-prodigal-sons-in-california-poses-prehistoric-mystery/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%e2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://anthropology.net/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/
https://www.ohio.edu/orgs/glass/vol/1/14.htm
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The real story of Christopher Columbus according to Stan Freberg (warning...may be offensive to some liberals):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hzDJiVfJo
Or, St. emmit, st. medgar, st. malcolm, st. martin, st. huey, st. elanor( bumpers ), st. rodney, st. james( byrd ),st. michael( “hands up” brown ) st. freddie( grey ), and WORSE.
Thanks for the links. Validation. I’ve seen some but not all of those.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
The Real Reason is that Columbus brought Catholicism and the first Mass to the western world.
Without the US joining WWI, the Germans would have won...so there would have been no later Nazi takeover of Germany. But it’s impossible to imagine what Europe would have been like in the 20th century if the New World had never been discovered (or did not exist). There would have been no potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s because the Irish would have not been growing potatoes.
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