[fish hawk]

LOL, I read just about everything that comes up here having to do with American Indians and there are always a few that bring up the fact that tribe killing tribe thing. Never occurred to them that every nation , tribe , etc in the world did the same thing so to use that as an excuse for Columbus capturing and enslaving the Caribs using them as a work force until they were practically extinct and then bringing in black slaves from Africa to replace them is so lame. Why can't you just face reality and say , yes, there was horrible things done with the invasion of the Americas?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***”... enslaving the Caribs using them as a work force until they were practically extinct and then bringing in black slaves from Africa to replace them is so lame.***

Especially since the Caribs were chowing down on the Arawak tribes at the time. The Arawaks were almost extinct when Colombus landed.

Colombus’ men raided a Carib camp where they found pregnant Arawak women in cages. The reason was Caribs had a sweet tooth for fresh born cooked Arawak baby flesh.

Bernal Diaz De Castillo wrote that Montezuma often consumed the flesh of sacrificed children. Bernal was unsure if the Spaniards had eaten human flesh in the foods the Aztecs gave them.

[IYAS9YAS]

Never occurred to them that every nation , tribe , etc in the world did the same thing so to use that as an excuse for Columbus capturing and enslaving the Caribs using them as a work force until they were practically extinct and then bringing in black slaves from Africa to replace them is so lame. Why can't you just face reality and say , yes, there was horrible things done with the invasion of the Americas?

Did I say it was an excuse? No. I brought it up as an example of hypocrisy.

I'm fully aware of the atrocities humans have committed against other humans throughout time. Unfortunately, today, it's only "The White Man" who is blamed for all the bad in the world. As if nothing ever happened in any other culture, anywhere else, at any other time.