There have always been questions asked about Columbus... Was he Italian? Was he Spanish? Was he Jewish?
One question that has not been asked too often is... Was he a racist???? The answer to that particular question is now coming to light with a resounding YES!!!
Sorry to 'rain on your parade' America.... but here are some disturbing facts...
Monday is a holiday in the US called Columbus Day held in honor of the man who supposedly "discovered" America.
In fact, Columbus' real role was as the initiator of a campaign of genocide against Native Americans that continued for nearly 400 years.
Nothing to celebrate.
In a country not buried so deeply in propaganda, this holiday would be removed from the calendar.
How the myth is carefully protected by the TV news mafia:
Columbus Day Sanitized
Excerpt from "The Canary Effect"
During the 1970s Bush Sr. masterminded a covert program that sterilized over 40% of Native American women against their will and without their consent...Click HERE to watch about this.
The accounts of babies having their heads smashed against rocks is similar to the claims I have read of what the indian "savages" did to settlers on the mainland. I wonder if one report or the other was falsely claimed against the true instigators.
But I agree that probably everyone in that era was racist by todays standards. Being in Ecuador, it's been a bit "enlightening" in that regard as there are most certainly differences between various groups.
For example, it's apparent that Ecuadorians in general have poor business skills. Generally, the big corporate success stories like the big shopping enterprises are created by foreigners who come here and build an empire. The idea of synergistic teamwork to create a successful business where the whole exceeds the sum of the parts is generally unappreciated by Ecuadorians. A huge percentage of people here are self employed, in the form of a small corner conveniences store, or even small tables on the sidewalk, and even selling candy on buses. The unspoken ethic here of being expected to take advantage of those around you proves detrimental to all in the form of a poorer economy. It's an Ecuadorian thing, or perhaps a latin thing.
Columbians, on the other hand, have a reputation for being smooth talkers and being able to take advantage of the (generally) more simplistic Ecuadorians.
Some indians here have been hired for paper money to pan gold at a rate very advantageous to a profiteer (Though others, I'm told, sell what they pan at a much fairer market rate).
There are differences between various peoples, and they are more than just musical preferences, and bone, hair and skin differences. It's the very way of thinking and living. Values are different. I think it's inevitable that when differing people come in contact there will be some kind of conflict, not necessarily violent mind you, but something that is best recognized and resolved, rather than just ignored and paved over in PC fashion.
Having been taught all my life about how racism is evil, unjustified and the product of an ignorant minde, it's been enlightening here in seeing how it may actually have some legitimate substance.