Taxpayer-Funded Play Imagines Going Back in Time to Assassinate Christopher Columbus

Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 16, 2016 | Elizabeth Harrington

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The National Endowment for the Arts is helping fund the production of a play about going back in time to kill Christopher Columbus.

The agency recently awarded $10,000 to the Borderlands Theater, which views people living near or on the U.S. border as “citizens of the world,” for the production entitled “Shooting Columbus.”

“A collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Arizona artists will combine elements from interviews with tribal elders and community members with movement, media, and traditional theater for a site-based, immersive, interactive performance,” according to a grant for the project. “The guest artists are members of the Shooting Columbus Collective, a group of artists of diverse ethnic backgrounds.”

[Red Badger]

You cannot change history. We are unburdened by what has been....................

[coalminersson]

The Spanish or Portuguese or Dutch would have still made the trip.

[Varda]

I think this is exactly right. Open ocean voyaging Native Americans did land in other places and just like everybody else left their DNA as evidence. Are today's liberals going to call for the deaths of those explorers, I think not.

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