Steven Crowder dares (kind of like an Medieval explorer) to provide a more balanced perspective on Christopher Columbus’ legacy in The New World. Watch
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Columbus was taught as an important part of our history when I was in school. I’ve always remembered the jingle “in 1492, Columbus sailed the oceans blue” I’ve probably forgotten a lot of what took place in school but that stands out there along with Jamestown and the Revolutionary War.
Should be Columbus month. You know, like how gay pride was a day….. then a week…. now a month.
Columbus. All month long.
He gets it kinda right… but what he gets wrong is that our government did execute a plan to force the plains Indians into submission by deliberately and systematically starving them of their sustenance. The US government absolutely did encourage the wholesale slaughter of American bison and ending the Indian Wars played into that decision. Subdividing, crop production and other motivation played into that, but to deny that part of the motivation was to deprive the Plains Indians of sustenance is to deny documented history.
Maybe not genocide, but it was an attempt to bring an end to the existing culture and force the Native Americans onto reservations.
Were it not for Columbus another European explorer would have discovered the Americas within 10 years. But the ‘party of science’ doesn’t like to consider things like that.
Even South Park got indigenous – indigenous, I tell you! last year about losing Columbus Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQcCTfD57uQ
🙂
He was given the title “Admiral of the Ocean Seas” by King Ferdinand.
And the liberals all want to go back to the glory days of living in mud huts, and ripping the hearts out of living sacrifices. Ah yes, the good old days.
From what a friend told me Columbus Ohio no longer celebrates Columbus Day. I don’t know if they have removed the Christopher Columbus statue in front of city hall yet though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was some ugly shit happened to the natives when Europeans arrived, just like there was some ugly shit happened to the Europeans when the mohammadmen arrived, just like there was some ugly shit happened to western Europeans when Attila arrived, just like…
It’s history. Ugly shit happened. Mostly, we got over it, and one of the ways we did was to recognize and celebrate individuals who played a major role in civilizing people and expanding civilization among savages. Columbus is a fine example. Hurrah Chris!
The Indian and the Horse by Frank Roe is a great resource on the subject.
Columbus setting sail in 1492 coincided with the end of Muslim Spain.
It’s frustrating when individuals who are willing to criticize our government when they are engaged in dry shaving them seem all too ready to minimize what they have done in that regard to others. I guess it all comes down to who’s ox it is that is being gored.
Read “America B.C.” Barry Fell.
Strong evidence that people came here
aloooong time ago…. Cave drawings and stone monuments.
BTW= Viking swords were found in Mass.
pre-dating Columbo by 400 years…
@ Uncle Al: THANMK YOU!
@ JDHasty: There’s a discussion of the fate of the Plains Indians in America on pages 313 and 314 of John Keegan’s interesting book, “Fields Of Battle”. On page 313, Keegan wrote: “Yet the pretensions of the Plains Indians to exclusive rights over the heartland of the continent cannot, it seems to me, stand. Their claims, the claim of less than a million people, to possess territories capable of supporting not only millions more directly settled, but of still more millions outside America waiting to be fed by those territories’ product, is the claim not of oppressed primitives but of the selfish rich. The last three sentences of that short essay, on page 314, are: “If the Indians’ fate was to meet head on in battle people as tough as themselves, veterans of a civil war in which brother had fought brother, Virginians had slain New Yorkers, Ohioans had burnt out Georgians, so be it. There may be a poignant hurrah about the Little Bighorn. I do not echo it.”
I echo Keegan’s sentiment. There’s more but I’ll leave it to those who may be interested to find and read it.
“I am an Italian American” – Bob Grant
https://www.musicradio77.com/other/Bob%20Grant%20-%20I%20am%20an%20Italian%20American.mp3
I am not Italian myself, but the mrs. is half!
Got Amerigo?
MAGA2016
KAG2020
It’s Indigenous Peoples Day. Columbus day is racist.
the only problem w/ Cristoforo Colombo was that he was hired by Spain
ironic, ain’t it, that the descendants of those that were slaughtered by the millions by the Spaniards now speak their language, & will not change it, as they invade the US?
Land belongs to whom ever can take it for as long as they can hold it.
The only title to land is force of arms. Every people on earth resides on land taken from another people. As for the Vikings, if you discover something and then keep it a secret or nobody cares, it doesn’t count.
They weren’t and still are not an indian nation. They fought each other, teamed up with established nations to fight each other. They’re still fighting each other now over US government bennies. Sick of it.
Most of them are grouping up politically with the Mexicans illegally here anyway, trying to take “whatever territory” back for Mexico.
You’re either an American or you’re not.
The US isn’t even officially paying black or Irish slave descendants. If they were, my ass would be sitting in my own casino on 40 acres.
Oh, and STFU senator pocahontas.
You’re either an American or you’re not
I spend quite a bit of time with Tribal members and native Americans are way over represented among US military veterans, I see Indians all the time with an American flag painted on the rump of their horses (they really like to paint their horses) and have also seen them photoshop an American flag onto photos of themselves and them with their families fishing and hunting. And guess what, the guys I am around are also the very same ones who stress the importance of maintaining their tribal identity and cultural heritage as well.
You bet your ass they are Americans and damn proud Americans at that.