To the editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. That foreign civilization included a written language, the printed word, the English language, and other cultural benefits lacking in the native American cultures. Maybe instead of a newspaper you should spread the word by beating a drum.
It’s interesting that they say mixed, because usually they make him out to ne much worse.
Yes, that evil white supremacy because countries where whites are a minority are doing so well.
There’s no mixed legacy. They hate the Christianity that Columbus brought. Anything else that they say is a lie.
Yeah, he was a jerk. And by today’s standards everyone else in 1492 was...including Indians who were still conducting mass murders, cannibalism, slavery, and cutting peoples hearts out on top of pyramids.
Why? Because they rode horses, wore armor and had guns.
Going up against a stone age people who didn't even work in metals or the wheel.
The Aztecs may have been as advanced as the ancient Romans, but the ancient Romans by 1492 in European history were well, ancient history.
By then they had become more advanced than The Romans, with things like the Compass, Eyeglasses and Guns.
Such a shame that America no longer lives in the Stone Age. Thanks Columbus. Thanks a lot.
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Christopher Colunbus was a crypto-Jew who became a Christian evangelist.
Evangelism was the reason he stated for his voyage.
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How bout an “editorial” on the “Mixed Legacy of MLK and His Day?”
You know, the plagiarism, adultery and whore mongering
Or the same with any one of the Kennedys? The Clintons?
The Schumers?
What people fail to realize is that America was going to be discovered by Europe even if Columbus had never been born. Cabral on his way to India got blown by a hurricane to the coast of what is now Brazil in 1500. There is no way the natives of the Americas could resist the Europeans once the discovery was made. I cannot even imagine a scenario where the Indians aren’t doomed.
The Europeans just had too many technological advantages over people who were still living in the stone age.
If you are of European descent and have ever enjoyed potatoes, tomatoes, or a fine cigar, thank Columbus!
I thought the left was all for multiculturalism?
What, mixing natives and Europeans in 1492 is no good, but today it is?
Columbus was one of the great explorers of history. His expeditions lead to a stream of European colonies in the Americas. One of the countries resulting was the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of the world.
The europeans had superior technology, weaponry, governmental systems, constructions and transportation techniques and on and on. The people here when the europeans came (I don’t say indigenous because they had migrated to be here) were of an inferior more backward culture and they lost out to the superior cultures.
I am of european descent on booths sides, and I am a proud american. I couldn’t be happier that Columbus came here and I say to the losers, tough dodo, that’s the way the world worked. If I see someone defacing Columbus statues, I will most likely go to jail.
Let’s start celebrating Leif Erikson Day then!