10-09-2018, 01:16 PM
(10-07-2018, 05:57 PM)WiregrassBenGal Wrote: Christopher Columbus didn't "discover" America any more than Neil Armstrong "discovered" the moon.
But Neil Armstrong is still considered a hero for what he did.
You can't blame slavery on Columbus. He had nothing to do with that.
He did not treat the Indians well, but he was not the one who exterminated them either. Hating him for that is like hating Thomas Jefferson and George Washington for owning slaves.
Columbus may not deserve a national holiday because he actually failed at what he was trying to do (find a new trade route to the Orient), but he does not deserve to be blamed for what happened to the native Americans or the establishment of slavery in the New World.
