By: Tom Tancredo
Soon we will have another round of protests centered on the establishment of the national holiday that we call Columbus Day. It will be condemned for being rooted in racism when in reality, it grew out of a desire of Italian Americans to draw attention to the atrocity of the largest mass lynching in American history when in 1891, 11 Italians were lynched in New Orleans.
Over time the day began also to symbolize the incredible courage and navigational skills Columbus displayed in what was an accomplishment with ramifications, similar in many respects to the successful Apollo 11 mission to the moon 500 years later.
Of course, at the hands of self-hating revisionists, the history of the Columbus expedition has been turned into a narrative of the genocidal destruction of an idyllic civilization that was living in harmony with the land and with each other. In order to fit the narrative of the critical race theory nazis, history has to be turned on its head.
Textbooks have to be re-written to portray Columbus as the embodiment of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, infecting an unsuspecting world with the debauchery of Western civilization. Slavery, Rape, and Greed will be the subtitles for the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
In fact, one of the first tribes with which Columbus came into contact were the Caribs, for whom the Caribbean sea is named. This tribe practiced cannibalism as a “spiritual act.” Not sure if their victims saw it the same way. Nonetheless, Columbus allied himself with the long-suffering Tanio, who were the favorite meal of the Caribs. And yes, tensions arose as a result of this alliance. The Tanio, however, never complained about the support Columbus provided.
Cannibalism was practiced by many tribes across the “new world.” Perhaps a quick glance of what life was really like for those living in the Eden into which Columbus stumbled would be illuminating. That life was best described by historian Richard White (no kidding), who was a professor at that den of conservative iniquity, Stanford University.
In a book called The Middle Ground, he provides eyewitness accounts of events so horrific so as to sound apocryphal; however, they have never been disputed by any serious historian.
For instance, he describes events of a Seneca raiding party that took advantage of the fact that many of the males of the Miami village they wanted to destroy were busy on a murder raid of their own against a neighboring town. The Senecas destroyed the Miami village and marched the women and children off into slavery. The survivors recalled the horrors of the forced march:
“Every night as the Senecas traveled home, they killed and ate a Miami Child. And every morning, they took a small child, thrust a stick through its head, and sat it up on a path with its face toward the Miami village they had left so that the pursuers, at every campsite, would see the face of a loved one.”
The account, believe it or not, gets even gorier.
And this kind of barbarism was not unique to the inhabitants of North America. As we take a realistic look at Central and South America, we see that the heralded Aztec and Mayan civilizations were just as bloodthirsty as their northern brethren.
They were so hated by their slave population that Cortez and a few hundred soldiers were able to enlist the aid of the vanquished and essentially destroy a force a thousand times larger. As for the diseases that decimated indigenous people, well let’s just say they gave (syphilis) as well as they got, (smallpox).
So Columbus statues have to be torn down and replaced with those of George Floyd. The false narratives of the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory now saturate the curricula of thousands of government schools.
The false picture these radical revisionists create is so important to the success of the plan to destroy Western Civilization and replace it with a communist, totalitarian state that the Biden Department of Justice has been weaponized to squelch the nascent opposition to Critical Race Theory that has been articulated by concerned parents all over the country. The Biden administration calls these patriotic Americans, domestic terrorists. In fact, the real domestic terrorists are hiding behind badges and sympathetic judges.
It is important to understand that Columbus hatred and vilification is just the pus that oozes out of the cancerous sores of the left-wing body politic. Columbus was neither a paragon of virtue nor a rabid racist driven by personal greed. He brought with him to these shores the artifacts of a civilization far more advanced than the one that greeted him.
When guns and ships were introduced onto a continent where the wheel had not yet been invented, there could never have been a different outcome. I suppose Columbus could be faulted for providing native tribes with tools that they could use to more efficiently kill and enslave each other, but that was certainly not his purpose in setting off on his perilous voyage of discovery.
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Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in 1492.THAT is why we celebrate his day.
It has been NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVERY!!! How dare they take our statues down and put up GEORGE FLOYD!!!!!
He was a criminal and drug user. He should NOT be memorialized as a good man. He was not!
Everyone needs to get over themselves and keep the statues of GOOD Americans and quit
causing so much trouble!
Pity more people don’t know true history and what took place here before “civilization” came. All the native tribes were enemies of each other and at various times were allied and then at war with each other. Another European introduction, horses, enabled blood-thirsty tribes to more efficiently destroy those tribes who had not encountered and subjugated the horses the Spanish conquistadors abandoned. Some of the east coast tribes were glad to ally with the English settlers because they were stronger than their enemies, other tribes, who had been preying on them. Those tribes that allied with the French during the French and Indian War were simply choosing to ally with the trappers who plied them with booze and trinkets. Native American tribes kept slaves, and practiced many other evils on their enemies, killing the men and boys and raping and capturing the women. Lots more horrors were visited on the travelers West than anything the westward bound settlers ever did to the tribes. And no, those tribes weren’t defending their territories (they didn’t own land) like a nation but more like wild animals defending their marked out territories, and they were only claiming what they had overtaken from other tribes.
The unmitigated gall to act like they are so blameless. Indigenous people of the Americas had no horses and were constantly warring and sacrificing their young and had never evolved from primitive times. Columbus never sat foot in present day America of course. What a brave man he was, overcoming obstacles and the fear of his crew and yet the Godless and evil heathen expect people to not pay homage to the man who made the Americas populated and emerge as bountiful blessings the world would never have known. Any official that tries this nonsense needs to be recalled or charged with hate crimes. Black and other racists need not apply. Do not use any invention of the European Man then. No car, TV, Computer, telephone, movies, records, penicillin, smallpox, on and on. And one more thing, the true Latin today are the Italians the closest people to the ancient Romans who took the Latin language from the Central Italian Etruscans. All Spanish speaking people are not Latin’s, any more than all Caucasians, Orientals and Blacks are Anglos even if their first language is English. Yes, Orientals. Asia starts in Turkey and the Russian Urals, and they are Caucasians.
P.S. The 1619 Project, in recounting the story of the first slaves trafficked in America, fail to mention that the “slave traders” were actually pirates who had attacked a ship that was a slave ship, and kidnapped the slaves they didn’t scuttle with the ship, and then, being blown off-course and out of rations, the made land and traded for food with the settlers. The settlers were afraid and agreed to the trade, though having a group of people added to their population who neither understood what had happened to them, nor could communicate with their new “owners”, and did not understand basic agriculture, being hunter-gatherers who were enslaved by others of their own nation, was a heavy burden, they had no idea what to do with them. Most escaped into the wilderness. They also fail to mention that there were quite a few “people of color” that owned slaves.
Thank you, Tom. I appreciate you.