Posted on 10/10/2011 9:15:21 AM PDT by katiedidit1
Although it's a national holiday, Columbus Day doesn't get much respect. In many places, kids don't even get a day off from school. Its main observation seems to consist of the suspension of mail delivery.
One of 10 federal holidays, Columbus Day marks the anniversary of the great Genoese explorer's bumping into what is now the Bahamas, on Oct. 12, 1492 (Julian calendar reckoning). But a lot of modern Americans are ambivalent about the man and his accomplishment.
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A lot of modern Americans have their heads up their asses.
Alot of moden Americans detest him
Just finished reading historian Charles Mann’s books, “1491” and “1493.”
They provide a different perspective on the Americas before and after Columbus.
Greatest Sopranos episode ever!
Native American protesters start demonstrating against Columbus Day, so Pauly Walnuts and the crew go down there and bust some heads.
They’re not Americans.
Having read significant portions of his diaries, I’m impressed with the man. Those who dismiss him have no understanding of science or history; they are typical liberal deniers.
"But a lot of modern Americans are ambivalent about the man and his accomplishment."Let's provide a little more information:
But a lot of modern, brainwashed, poorly educated Americans are ambivalent about the man and his accomplishment.
No offense, but history has built up his rep far outside what’s he earned. My understanding is a bit shaky from all the revisionist history, but I seems to recall that help never acknowledged that help hadn’t found the asia. His calculations for the size of the world were way off. And that the world was round was a widely accepted fact by that time. His actions were courageous and help did discover the americas by sea, though most evidence now shows that vikings have a claims to that discovery.
Why help gets blamed for what’s happened next is beyond me. Argue how much of a crime was committed against the natives all your want, he’s not guilty for what’s others did with what’s help found.
Because people have bought into and been taught revisionist history.
The “white man is responsible for _______________” (fill in the blank) blame game is alive and well.
Also, a book titled “A people’s history of the United States” by known leftist Howard Zinn is now accepted curriculum in many school districts in the USA.
If you’re not familiar with it, check it out on Amazon.
The idea that we would all be happy, naked and living in perfect harmony with the land is absurd.
We'd never see that scene on over-the-air television... but we get steam rolled by "reality" show crap that's scripted to feature made up drama.
Anyway... have a great Columbus Day... I'm going to celebrate with a big bowl of penne pasta (topped with San Marzano tomato-based marinara sauce) and will wash it down with a fine, Italian chianti :-)
Real Americans are done with revisionist history.
When you really think about it, Most of natives living in the Americas were literally still in the Stone Age when Columbus arrived. They had not even discovered the wheel yet, or discovered basic metallurgy. Eventually the two societies would have to meet each other. If not Columbus, it would have been someone else, and there would be someone else’s name they would be dragging through the mud.
That exhibit was demolished a couple decades ago. No mention of such beastial practices now on Smithsonian property. The new Native American museum is hardly worthy of being called a museum: it's more of a shrine. Of course.
Vikings did discover America, but no one else in Europe knew about it. Even the Norwegians and Icelanders had largely forgotten about Vinland. The Little Ice Age, Black Death and the death of the colony made Leif Eriksson’s voyage all but worthless.
Agreed.
It’s much like the slavery “issue”.
The truth competes with the libtard agenda.
Indeed, I say this as a Native American myself who is appalled at how much of our history has been dropped into a "memory hole" in just the last generation or so. Some tribes were actually more civilized than our white counterparts, but not all of them were. The Aztecs were one of the worst even though they had the trappings of civilization like great public works.
Did you ever read George Orwell's epic novel 1984? I say we are living it now, even more than we are Atlas Shrugged.
Are you talking about the hardcover books Nat Geo sold? If so, my father used to buy them regularly. It was akin to a subscription. I used to use them for my school work. He may still have the ones you’re talking about if so.
Thanks for the tip on the NG books, will keep an eye out for them at yardsales.
It’s a shame that history is being whitewashed or altogether erased in the name of PC.
Yes and yes.
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