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I read your article about George Dumbass Bush being the biggest
environmental terrorist of all time (I agree) and his many other
too-long-to-list violations (I agree) but when you ran down a list of
history's bad guys, you did NOT list Christopher Columbus... why?
Why is it that so many people still think of this greedy, murdering, slave-trading bastard as a hero? There were an estimated 6,000,000 people (Taino) in the Caribbean when Columbus, lost, came upon it and then promptly "claimed" it... He called it the New World and was heralded for his "discovery"... but, didn't the Taino discover it...they had been in the (cough,cough) New World for two thousand years when Columbus stumbled upon them. Columbus promised the King & Queen of Spain riches beyond imagination for funding his voyage... but even though he enslaved the population and put them to work in the gold mines until they dropped dead from exhaustion or starvation... the greed was never-ending but the gold just wasn't there. So, the enterprising Columbus rounded up 1,000 of the biggest, strongest Taino and stuffed them into the stinking holds of his ships to be taken to the slave market and sold for profit in Seville... those who died en route were thrown overboard and other greedy entreprenuers setting out to get a piece of action in the New World said it was possible to find your way to there by following the trail of bodies in the water. Columbus was the very first slave-trader in the Americas. Many people know this and many people do not... there is a reason... you are not about to be taught this information (the truth) in our government (i.e., public) schools... because to admit how evil Columbus was to the indigenous peoples and the trend of horrific abuses that began under his command against them (the Aztec (Cortez) & Inca (Pizarro) populations both disappead shortly after Columbus' arrival and the Taino are also now declared "extinct"....) would be to open the door to possible reparations for Native peoples... it's much easier to continue to portray Columbus as the hero. BUT although Columbus Day is a FEDERAL holiday... there are 17 states that refuse to celebrate it, making it the ONLY disputed holiday on our calendar... doesn't that say something to you? Another thing that has been done to guarantee that the modern day relations to the decimated indigenous populations do not ask for reparations is government reclassification. For many years Latino was defined as "a Spanish speaking Indian" ... a direct result of conquest... but that has been tweaked and they are now recognized as a separate group, i.e., Hispanic -- therefore no longer Indian, no longer a possibility of any claims filed against a government who stole their land, language & culture using any dispicable means available. Columbus is not a hero to many of us and his invasion and greed are the cause of millions of deaths, yet some still regard him as a hero and the government still perpetrates that lie. I would appreciate it if you would add this bloodthirsty bastard to your list of evildoers or maybe even write an article about him as we approach the celebratory date of his ~ahem~ discovery.
Evelyn Dye-Garcia
Why is it that so many people still think of this greedy, murdering, slave-trading bastard as a hero? There were an estimated 6,000,000 people (Taino) in the Caribbean when Columbus, lost, came upon it and then promptly "claimed" it... He called it the New World and was heralded for his "discovery"... but, didn't the Taino discover it...they had been in the (cough,cough) New World for two thousand years when Columbus stumbled upon them. Columbus promised the King & Queen of Spain riches beyond imagination for funding his voyage... but even though he enslaved the population and put them to work in the gold mines until they dropped dead from exhaustion or starvation... the greed was never-ending but the gold just wasn't there. So, the enterprising Columbus rounded up 1,000 of the biggest, strongest Taino and stuffed them into the stinking holds of his ships to be taken to the slave market and sold for profit in Seville... those who died en route were thrown overboard and other greedy entreprenuers setting out to get a piece of action in the New World said it was possible to find your way to there by following the trail of bodies in the water. Columbus was the very first slave-trader in the Americas. Many people know this and many people do not... there is a reason... you are not about to be taught this information (the truth) in our government (i.e., public) schools... because to admit how evil Columbus was to the indigenous peoples and the trend of horrific abuses that began under his command against them (the Aztec (Cortez) & Inca (Pizarro) populations both disappead shortly after Columbus' arrival and the Taino are also now declared "extinct"....) would be to open the door to possible reparations for Native peoples... it's much easier to continue to portray Columbus as the hero. BUT although Columbus Day is a FEDERAL holiday... there are 17 states that refuse to celebrate it, making it the ONLY disputed holiday on our calendar... doesn't that say something to you? Another thing that has been done to guarantee that the modern day relations to the decimated indigenous populations do not ask for reparations is government reclassification. For many years Latino was defined as "a Spanish speaking Indian" ... a direct result of conquest... but that has been tweaked and they are now recognized as a separate group, i.e., Hispanic -- therefore no longer Indian, no longer a possibility of any claims filed against a government who stole their land, language & culture using any dispicable means available. Columbus is not a hero to many of us and his invasion and greed are the cause of millions of deaths, yet some still regard him as a hero and the government still perpetrates that lie. I would appreciate it if you would add this bloodthirsty bastard to your list of evildoers or maybe even write an article about him as we approach the celebratory date of his ~ahem~ discovery.
Evelyn Dye-Garcia