A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classrooms

TAMPA, Fla. – Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.

Kolowith's students learn about the explorer's significance — though they also come away with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend.

"I talk about the situation where he didn't even realize where he was," Kolowith said. "And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy."

“Too bad no one in academia has the cojones to tell the TRUTH, that the 15,000-year cultural advancement brought about by contact with Europeans turned out rather well compared to the alternative.”

.....I expect that the alternative would be something like parts of sub-Sahara Africa....various tribes hacking each other up with machetes....21st century savages commanded by war lords.

“This is a case of blatant brainwashing.”

Yes it is. And abuse as well.

Teaching children to hate themselves and their country.

“You can expect an increase under Education Secretary Arne Duncan who will bring the excellence of the Chicago school system to the entire U.S.A.”

“Attack the institutions of the U.S. government and oppose “everything that’s good and decent in honky America,”
William Ayers, December 1969, Flint, Mich.

“If you want to destroy a country, destroy its memory”
If you want to destroy the family and ultimately man himself, destroy marriage.

If you want to destroy our military repeal don't ask don't tell.

If you want to destroy mans creativity take away his freedom.

If you want to destroy a free society destroy the free market.
Marx’s Capital’s main argument was that “capitalism cannot be reformed,
but can only be destroyed.

Ahhh.. The left believes that in order to create a utopian
society one must destroy the current one.
So much DESTRUCTION.
One day the left will learn that Marx was nothing more than
a useful idiot for Satan.

The left works for the devil.
This truly is a war between good and evil,
between the creative/builders and the destroyers.

“apparently so they could better understand the suffering indigenous populations endured because of Columbus.”

What was that?
The end of the Indians living in tepees and dying at a young age?

Like to see the left go live in a tent for one winter and
forage for their own food.

Since the left romanticize about and market "this return to EDEN".
I would like to see them try it for at least one winter.

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