t'aint who came first, it's who came BACK and stayed.
"t'aint who came first, it's who came BACK and stayed."
Exactly - about 400 years earlier, St. Brendan the Navigator is said to have reached North America. Also, various parties of Vikings dropped in on our continent. However, it wasn't until Columbus came that the door was really opened to colonization. Which gets to the heart of the matter. No guilt will be heaped on our friend St. Brendan or the Vikings because they did not bring Western culture to the New World in any real lasting form. However, with Columbus came the Christianization of these lands. For that, he can never be forgiven by the Liberal anti-Christian bigots.
Therefore, they will do anything in their power to condemn and deface him.
True That.
whole brouhaha just confirms the declining standard of education here... if the Chinese did get here first and "discovered" America, it was then hidden until the 1492 real "discovery".