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"Today’s 'woke' culture, which has held Columbus accountable for the chain of disasters that followed in his wake in the Caribbean and South America is not only unfair to him, but it overlooks the essence of the man.
"Not of Spanish culture, Columbus was at heart a simple but ambitious individualist -- a seafaring explorer and evangelist.
"He had neither interest in founding colonies nor was he an effective leader and administrator of strong-headed hidalgos that undertook setting up colonial outposts at the behest of Isabella."
Columbus was a capitalist who saw no problem with profiting from human slavery; the institution he helped augment has endured for five centuries based on principles of genocide and colonization.
Columbus Day: U.S. capitalism built on slavery, genocide - Liberation News
"To celebrate Columbus is to celebrate a legacy of genocide, slavery, rape and plunder.
"It commemorates the violent and bloody accumulation of capital for the ruling classes of Europe and, later, the U.S.
"When he landed in the islands now known as the Bahamas, Columbus encountered the Arawak Indians, whose kindness and generosity he noted in his journal and letters.
"Columbus quickly took a group of Arawaks captive, hoping they could lead him to gold.
"He then sailed to Hispaniola-Haiti and the Dominican Republic-where he enslaved even more Indians."