Its now a known fact that America was not discovered by him and he arrived in the Carribean by accident. He even went as far as threatening the lives of his crewmen that said he didn't land in Asia. The only thing he is actually responsible for is assisting in the formation of the Middle Passage for his work in West Africa before his voyage to America and he had a hand in ushering the age of exploration which led to the demise of many indigenous American civilizations and the removal and enslavement of millions of Africans, the affects of which are still being felt today
re: Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrick Clarke and several other books.
2006-10-09 07:38:37 · 24 answers · asked by Random Nimrod 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
He introduced small pox to the natives...
That was good, right??
I mean I got small pox and I was out of school for a couple of weeks!
If not for small pox I wouldn't have seen my first naked woman on HBO (I was alone in the middle of the day, and HBO played R-rated movies back then)...
And the naked woman gave me a woody, which introduced me to heterosexuallity...
If not for heterosexuallity I wouldn't have made it to college because free sex was basically why I wanted to go to college in the first place.
I met and had sex with about a 100 women in college.
By the way, college led to grad school, and grad school gave me a great job, a fiancee, a kick-a*s car, and money in the bank...
All this happened because of Chris Columbus...My hero *L*
2006-10-09 07:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by The Mac 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some people celebrate Hitlers birthday too. The concept that he found America is nonsense. The people living here knew it was here already. He did not prove the world was round Aristotle did that 2000 years earlier.
I guess because he had a nice costume and it makes a good story. Many things are put up as history yet never happened. Paul Revier ride is one of them. He actually only rode a few miles and stopped. Some Jewish guy actually did the ride but his name would not sell books so they gave the credit to Paul Revier. Revier is better known for making silver.
During the 1800's books were what we had as media. The story's were told even if they were not true. Many people believed these story's as true because they had some truth.
So why do we celebrate Columbus day? Ritual, and it's one that is fading fast.
2006-10-09 07:49:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Such holidays are designed to further instill the propaganda heralded as truth in the minds of the population. In other words, if there is a holiday to honor it, it must be true. Chris was not even Italian. that means that we Italian Americans are celebrating some dead Spanish guy, Anyway, isn't it a day off for school children?
2006-10-09 07:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he discovered america in the first "commercially" viable way. It would have been discovered later, but he opened the door for one of the biggest changes in human history. In the past, and present, our country has had a way of glorifying commerical triumphs over human triumphs even when the commercial triumph caused enormous human suffering. This is one of those examples.
I don't think he should be celebrated, because he did something that was inevitable and in a unethical fashion, but it is an important historical event in the way the world has turned out.
So, it shouldn't be a "holiday" but it should be recognized as important.
2006-10-09 07:51:21 · answer #4 · answered by TheChin 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because he was thought to be the person who discovered America.
Because the Knights of Columbus lobbied long and hard to have the holiday made official after it was fist celebrated in 1892.
2006-10-09 07:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a lot of mythology involving Christopher Columbus, including the false notion that he set sail to prove the earth was round.
But spare me the violin music for "indigenous peoples." The Mesoamerican cultures had serious issues (including cannibalism and human sacrifice) and a lot of the African slave trade was perpetuated by Africans (blacks selling other blacks into slavery).
Eventually whites did end the practice.
2006-10-09 07:49:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well, because people like to make holidays out of nothing...simple as that. Just so they can have a day off work or stores can have a sale or whatever.
2006-10-09 07:40:23 · answer #7 · answered by Shaun 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus... the founder of Euro trash.
I like liberalthinktank's answer....
I think I discovered how to convert lightning into usable power..... OUCH!
2006-10-09 07:47:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea. I think it started with a cover-up years & years ago. Now that we know he was actually a criminal in Spain & his own country didn't want him; now knowing he was a raping murderer - Yeah, why do we have that as a holiday?
2006-10-09 07:41:23 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because he thought he discovered America!!!
So we don't have to discover anything to get a holiday in our name, as long as we think we discovered something, hummm!
2006-10-09 07:44:12 · answer #10 · answered by liberalthinktank 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋