Happy Columbus Day!!

[DigitalDrifter]

Happy Columbus Day — say it loud, say it proud



"Happy Columbus Day. There, I said it. And I mean it. I don’t wish you a solemn Columbus Day, nor a mournful one, nor still a guilty one. No, I wish you a happy Columbus Day.

It’s a day to celebrate the contributions of Italian-Americans to our nation’s history. That was the original intent behind the holiday, after all, to elevate Italians at a time when they still faced marked bigotry. But more than that, it’s a day to celebrate a man whose example of courage and determination we need, as they say, now more than ever.

Christopher Columbus wasn’t just the man most responsible for opening up the New World to the Old; he was also an example of the American Dream centuries before our nation was born."

Happy Columbus Day â say it loud, say it proud

Happy Columbus Day. There, I said it. And I mean it. I don’t wish you a solemn Columbus Day, nor a mournful one, nor still a guilty one. No, I wish you a happy Columbus Day. It’s a day to celebrate…

nypost.com

 

[JGalt]

Happy Columbus Day and thank you Spain, for letting him discover my country. If it were not for him, we would still be a vast land of warring tribes, committing human sacrifice, cannibalism, and animal worship.

He is honored in Spain, at his tomb at the cathedral in Seville..

 

[Correll]

Agreed. And even for the non Italians., Columbus has been an American Hero for many generations. This push to marginalize him is just another battle of the Culture War.


Happy Columbus Day!

 

[TheParser]

Yes, Happy Columbus Day.

And especial thanks to Italian Americans who have made so many positive contributions to our country.

(Remember: There is no mail delivery today, and the post offices are closed.)

 

[harmonica]

.....an intelligent/educated man...a bold/brave man that did absolutely nothing wrong---completely opposite of Floyd/Brown/Garner/etc ---but the idiots want to denounce Columbus but not jackass criminals = which is one of the reasons their culture is a failure/nonsensical

 

[JoeB131]

Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...

 

[harmonica]

Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...

.....more babble crap from you..you praise criminals and denounce law abiding/brave/educated men = you people are just plain stupid--and RACIST

 

[JoeB131]

.....more babble crap from you..you praise criminals and denounce law abiding/brave/educated men = you people are just plain stupid--and RACIST

Columbus was the first Republican.

He didn't know where he was going when he left.
He didn't know where he was when he got there.
He didn't know where he had been when he got back.
And he did it all on borrowed money.

 

[harmonica]

.....more babble crap from you..you praise criminals and denounce law abiding/brave/educated men = you people are just plain stupid--and RACIST

Columbus was the first Republican.

He didn't know where he was going when he left.
He didn't know where he was when he got there.
He didn't know where he had been when he got back.
And he did it all on borrowed money.

wow---a very historical and sensible reply
HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHH

 

[JoeB131]

wow---a very historical and sensible reply
HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHH

Well, I could point out how he was responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Arawak people on Hispaniola, but you've made it pretty clear you don't care about the lives of non-white people.

But you expect them to care about yours.

 

[JoeB131]

Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus

It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.

rapidcityjournal.com

If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."

 

[Polishprince]

Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus

It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.

rapidcityjournal.com

If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."

Columbus' men were Hispanics, not white at all. Chris was an Italian, of course, but his staff were oozing with machismo.

 

[martybegan]

Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus

It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.

rapidcityjournal.com

If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."

Considering what Europeans were doing to each other during times of war, it's not surprising they took advantage of technologically and politically inferior natives.

Remember this was still a time when non noble captured soldiers were killed off if they winning army didn't think they could get money for them, and sieged towns that did not surrender at the start were sacked and pillaged.

 

[gipper]

Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...

Just as you are with Ears.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus

It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.

rapidcityjournal.com

If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."

Columbus' men were Hispanics, not white at all. Chris was an Italian, of course, but his staff were oozing with machismo.

what?
Spain Spain - Wikipedia

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The SJW extremist have been accusing Columbus of genocide for decades.
But, Columbus didn't not try to murder the native population of the western hemisphere.
That is just more dumb liberal bigot hate mongering and lying.

genocide [ˈjenəˌsīd] NOUN 1. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

 

[Harry Dresden]

i loved having another paid day off at work.....

 

[Moonglow]

The only thing the day means for me is closed banks.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus

It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.

rapidcityjournal.com

If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."

Las Casas sound like Keith Olbermann

 

[Gdjjr]

genocide [ˈjenəˌsīd] NOUN 1. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Western migration into the vast open spaces of the continental US- right?

"The only good Indian is a dead Indian"- right? Manifest Destiny! Right?

That's not to take away from what Columbus is famous for- but, white washing the past leads to forgetting the past- which creates new sayings- "the past is prologue", for instance- or, if you don't learn from History you're doomed to repeat it-

The absolute ignorance of people who have their minds made up for them is sad-