News flash -- the fact that Columbus was removed as governor and hauled to Spain in chains isn't a news flash. This latest find just fills in a blank regarding the reason for his removal. Previously known letters from him to the Spanish crown reveal his interest in enslaving the local population and use that to sell Spain on colonization.
The current media environment in the USA is to find a problem then blame a white guy.
A lot of white guys are now tending to react by saying FU, not our fault and this is becoming an automatic reflexive response, not a thinking one.
So you post a "white guy's fault" even though it is a 500 year dead white guy, and you get a reflexive automatic "not his fault" response.
Yeah it is idiotic, but that is the way it is. White guys have become irrationally and reflexively defensive.