Posted on 10/09/2017 4:27:19 AM PDT by Chickensoup
IN 1492
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
He sailed by night; he sailed by day; He used the stars to find his way.
A compass also helped him know How to find the way to go.
Ninety sailors were on board; Some men worked while others snored.
Then the workers went to sleep; And others watched the ocean deep.
Day after day they looked for land; They dreamed of trees and rocks and sand.
October 12 their dream came true, You never saw a happier crew!
“Indians! Indians!” Columbus cried; His heart was filled with joyful pride.
But “India” the land was not; It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.
The Arakawa natives were very nice; They gave the sailors food and spice.
Columbus sailed on to find some gold To bring back home, as he’d been told.
He made the trip again and again, Trading gold to bring to Spain.
The first American? No, not quite. But Columbus was brave, and he was bright.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
He sailed by night; he sailed by day; He used the stars to find his way.
A compass also helped him know How to find the way to go.
Ninety sailors were on board; Some men worked while others snored.
Then the workers went to sleep; And others watched the ocean deep.
Day after day they looked for land; They dreamed of trees and rocks and sand.
October 12 their dream came true, You never saw a happier crew!
“Indians! Indians!” Columbus cried; His heart was filled with joyful pride.
But “India” the land was not; It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.
The Arakawa natives were very nice; They gave the sailors food and spice.
Columbus sailed on to find some gold To bring back home, as he’d been told.
He made the trip again and again, Trading gold to bring to Spain.
The first American? No, not quite. But Columbus was brave, and he was bright.
Where is the Mob when you need them??
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He discovered America and of him they made a statue
Liberals said “that’s racist and offensive” like they say about everything else.
Posted by me in another Columbus thread :
No dark history. Europeans discovered an under utilized pair of continents peopled by races that mostly died when subjected to smallpox and other diseases. And we utilized those continents.
The Indians are playing in the Bronx today...
Indian chief: “You out of luck. Banks closed.”
Columbus: “Really?”
Indian chief: “_Columbus Day_”
—Stan Freberg
Yep, and the so called natives weren’t native to the Amercas either. They crossed the Bering straits before Columbus, but, that does not make them native. It makes them the first to get here.
Richard Armour wrote in “It All Started With Columbus” that Chris could have waited a year because then the first line would rhyme with “boundless sea”.
Anyone remember the 1992 protests on C.C.’s 500th? Black college students led the demonstrations against a Columbus statue in our city.
Say what? Their ancestors weren’t even in America, yet.
We need to protect our country and our history from leftist scum.
Tony!
Help!
They say many of the so called Clovis people arrived fallowing the ice age Atlantic ice sheets in skin boats from Europe. Camping out on the ice similar to how Eskimos do.
Europeans discovered an under utilized pair of continents peopled by races that mostly died when subjected to smallpox and other diseases. And we utilized those continents.
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Columbus started a movement of peoples to a continent that had primitive peoples and civilizations. And not much of either.
Losers lose.
Fact of life.
That must be the sale of Manhattan?
Perhaps Feather-Indians were once old Dot-Indians?
Although Columbus didn’t see any restaurants when he got here.
Interesting? Do you have a reference? How did they survive? Did they fish through the ice? To freeze the open ocean it had to be extremely cold, what maybe 10 below zero?
Black college students led the demonstrations against a Columbus statue in our city.
Say what? Their ancestors weren’t even in America, yet.
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The aggrieved are permanently aggrieved
Interesting? Do you have a reference? How did they survive? Did they fish through the ice? To freeze the open ocean it had to be extremely cold, what maybe 10 below zero?
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It is interesting that you do not know this. May I ask how old you are? I find that some of the younger people I work with have a very different education in history than I do.
Just think, if Columbus had died of scurvy while on his way here, his first mate, Seymour Luckovich, would have gotten all the credit and we would be celebrating Luckovich Day.......
Why blame Columbus when it was Pizarro who’s diseased men and pigs started an epidemic that may have killed 2 million first Americans.
” have a very different education in history than I do.”
Usually they have none at all. They have liberal talking points, but no history.
Pizzaro?
You mean that that was actually the fault of Hispanics??
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