A Darker Side of Columbus Emerges in US Classrooms

Associated Press ^ | October 11, 2009

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“many teachers are trying to present a more balanced perspective of what happened after Columbus reached the Caribbean and the suffering of indigenous populations.”

People need heroes and heroes are human. They not perfect. A nation needs heroes even more - they create a sense of national and cultural identity. What is being done to Columbus by the ideological leftist American haters is in line with the attacks on Washington, Jefferson, etc.

Children don’t need to be taught all the blemishes and problems associated with American heroes. They don’t have the personal or historical persepctive to judge them in context, which is PRECISELY why the American hating traitors in the Edcuational Establishment do it. Brainwash them at an early age before they mature enough to realize perspectives.

On the OTHER hand, Columbus Day is not and should not be an Italian-American Day. Its a day about a significant event and an heroic figure, which contributed to the foudning of America.

I really find ethnic-American events repugnant, REGARDLESS of the nationality involved. Where your ancestors came from is never as important as what you ARE and that should be first and foremost an American.

I don’;t say this as an attack on Americans of Italian ancestry. I feel exactly the same about idiotic holidays like “Spanish-American” Day or St. Patrick’s Day.

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He was also white - and we all know about them white guys....

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Also, as far as the “crap” these kids have at home, maybe more men should grow some balls and start calling the shots and setting the tone at home, instead of being brow-beaten into accepting the mindless emotional approach to child-raising that America’s females have pushed on the society.

Amen. The wife and I are in our late 20's and its almost quinticential 1953 in our household; and its of mutual agreement. Men are factory workers, businessmen, servicemen, and construction workers; women are secrataries, nurses, flight attendants and housewives. Oh yeah, and the women that don't homeschool are teachers. Anything else just doesn't seem right.

She does the dishes, laundry, cleaning, and most of the cooking/baking. I do the firewood, mow the lawn, lead the family in grace at dinner, cook (most) Sunday dinners, and earn a living. We come to an agreement on most everything, but I have the final say.

And for those of you wondering.... my wife is white, not Asian.

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“And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.”

Ok teaching kids that he did not know where he was, ok, mentioning that he did some bad things, ok... Let’s be historically true here while he was no villain he was also no saint..

But how he was mean and bossy? come on, if you are going to try to teach little kids about nuance dont make him sound like the grinch..