Via Daily Nebraskan:
If you are an alert and functioning human being, you know that today is Columbus Day, the second Monday in October, the day that remembers and honors Christopher Columbus and his large crew of Spaniards “discovering” the Americas, in which generations and generations of indigenous people had already lived and thrived.
If you are a more alert and higher-functioning human being, you know the fact that our country has a holiday to commemorate the genocide, slavery, disease, rape and hate that is Christopher Columbus is total bullshit.
Fast facts to make up for our flawed public school system:
1. Christopher “Bad Daddy” Columbus arrived on Oct. 12, 1492, to a civilization close to 14,000 years old. He insisted that he had reached small islands off the coast of China, and even made his crew pledge an agreement with him. Columbus died maintaining he had reached Asia. What an embarrassing mess this dude is already.
2. Upon reaching the islands, the Spanish explorers were met by the native Arawaks living in the Bahamas, who swam out to greet the ships, offering help and willing to trade the explorers for anything they needed. Columbus endorsed the Arawaks himself: “(The Arawaks) are so naïve and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they share with anyone.” He continues, “They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest.”
3. To return the favor, Columbus kidnapped 500 Arawaks, shipped them to Spain and sold them into slavery. The transatlantic slave trade was now a thriving business. An actual quote ‘Topher had the balls to write: “Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.”