Preparations for the anti-Columbus campaign began in 1990, when the 35,000 member American Library Association condemned the forthcoming 500th anniversary celebration. According to the ALA, events after 1492 “begin a legacy of European piracy, brutality, slave trading, murder, disease, conquest, and ethnocide. In 1991, the National Education Association weighed in against the Admiral of the Ocean Seas, urging its members at a national conference to promote the new multiculturalist party line that Columbus was a mass murderer and criminal. NEA Today predicted, “Never again will Christopher Columbus sit on a pedestal in United States history.” Lending its dubious moral weigh to the hate campaign, the National Council of Churches in 1991 issued a condemnation of Columbus’s voyages claiming, “For Indians, Christopher Columbus’s invasion marked the beginning of slavery and eventual genocide.”
In order to guarantee that the inmates of America’s public education system were force-fed the new party line, the National Council of Education activists produced a 97-page guide entitled Rethinking Columbus.
Christopher Columbus tried for years to get funds from France, Portugal and England before he hit it lucky in Spain.
King Ferdinand of Aragon and his wife and co-ruler, Queen Isabella of Castile, sponsored his venture. The king was grumpy about it but Isabella furnished three ships.
As every pupil knows (or should know) Columbus sailed west thinking he would land in Asia. A happy sailor sighted a West Indian island and on October 12, in the name of his sponsors, Columbus claimed the real estate for Spain. It turned out to be a small island, but no matter. Columbus made four trips in all, amid storms, threatened mutinies, and, on the third trip, envious palace hangers-on had him put in chains.
After his fourth voyage, on which he explored the coast of Central America, he returned to Spain. It was his ill fortune that the queen died before Ferdinand, and this left him without a friend at court. He died in 1504, in poverty and neglect. Ironically, he never knew that he had discovered a new continent, later to be called America.
Other explorers followed, settlers came, towns grew, a new form of government was devised, and trade, industry and agriculture flourished. The part of America called the United States had been not only a haven for the oppressed but an example to the world.
So one would expect Columbus to be honored every year in America, instead many democrats, teachers, clergy vilify him.
You may want to read the following book written by a liberal reporter for the NY Times:
Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle over Multiculturalism Is
Reshaping Our Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives
by RICHARD BERNSTEIN
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Happy Columbus Day!
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They coudln’t handle things in the East under islamic domination so they went west.
Bad for the enslaved in the East...good for the west.
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The above thinking creates nothing but chaos and confusion, and is the antithesis of understanding and clarity. Most cultures have their points of interest and something from which we can all learn, but the civilization and culture developed in the west is indeed superior.
But what many people refer to as the "westernization of a culture", I refer to as simple, "progress." It is just that the culture of the west is more conducive and hospitable to progress than any other, the United States being, at least for now, at the ultimate forefront.
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I spent a few hours with Christopher Columbus XIV (i think the 14th) on 7-4-76 ... I rode with him out to the replica of Santa Maria, which was in the Hudson off the west side of Manhattan. Dropped him off.
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Apparently, this content moved. The source link gives a 404 error. The correct link today is
https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/11/the-crimes-of-christopher-columbus
The Consequences of Columbus is at
https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/02/consequences-of-columbus
or
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/history/the-consequences-of-columbus.html
