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| First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, painting by Dióscoro Puebla(1862) |
At best it is skewed from the limited perspective of early arrivals and at its worst it is an all out lie perpetuated to bolster the superiority of the winner and cover the atrocities committed against the loser.
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| Time to abolish Columbus Day, blog by Bill Bigelow |
Such is the case with Christopher Columbus. Known to the world and throughout misguided history as a great explorer.
Today it is inconceivable that we are still honoring the father of the slave trade with a national holiday.
