Can u remember celebrating Columbus Day as a kid???

[BlackMajik]

I can and it disgusts me. It was in elementary school, we had a big azz Columbus day celebration in our gym. Prizes were won and we learned how Columbus "discovered" America

That shyt makes me absolutely sick. Does anyone else have any memories like this?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

the fact that he gets credit for discovering America and not that he was a murderous psycho disgusts you?

 

[BlackMajik]

the fact that he gets credit for discovering America and not that he was a murderous psycho disgusts you?

U intentionally trying to twist what i'm saying in my OP or what?

 

[KingpinOG]

Columbus brought western civilization to America and helped proved that the world was round.

You don't think that is a significant achievement?

 

[BlackMajik]

Columbus brought western civilization to America and helped proved that the world was round.

You don't think that is a significant achievement?

Negged and ignored

 

[Alexander The Great]

So much shyt I look back at that we were programmed to celebrate as kids the indoctrination starts from the time we can talk.

 

[KingpinOG]

Negged and ignored

You can't run from truth my friend.......

 

[observe]

He did discover the Americas tho..before that nobody knew this place existed on the other side of the globe besides the Viking who were up in Canada and the Chinese

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

He did discover the Americas tho..before that nobody knew this place existed on the other side of the globe besides the Viking who were up in Canada and the Chinese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Columbus brought western civilization to America

And Western Civilization systematically destroyed almost the entire CIVILIZED population that was already here.​

 

[observe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

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Why did you post that article? What does that have to do with what I just said..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Why did you post that article? What does that have to do with what I just said..

Somebody knew this place existed. Just not Europeans.
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The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus has proven difficult to establish. Scholars rely on archaeological data and written records from settlers from the Old World. Most scholars writing at the end of the 19th century estimated the pre-Columbian population at about 10 million; by the end of the 20th century the scholarly consensus had shifted to about 50 million, with some arguing for 100 million or more. Contact with the New World led to the European colonization of the Americas, in which millions of immigrants from the Old World eventually settled in the New World.

The population of African and Eurasian peoples in the Americas grew steadily, while the number of the indigenous people plummeted. Eurasian diseases such as smallpox, influenza, bubonic plague and pneumonic plagues devastated the Native Americans who did not have immunity. Conflict and outright warfare with Western European newcomers and other American tribes further reduced populations and disrupted traditional society. The extent and causes of the decline have long been a subject of academic debate, along with its characterization as a genocide.

 

[observe]

And Western Civilization systematically destroyed almost the entire CIVILIZED population that was already here.​

They weren't systematically destroyed.,destroyed yes..but not systematically..most of the indigenous population died from small pox that an african slave brought over to Mexico..Europeans were already immune to small pox because they have lived with live stock their whole life since the Fertile Crescent...diseases come from live stock..the only live stock in Latin America are llamas

 

[observe]

Somebody knew this place existed. Just not Europeans.
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That article doesn't say anything about people knowing America existed before Europeans

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

That article doesn't say anything about people knowing America existed before Europeans

They were already there before Columbus. Columbus didn't 'discover' America. He basically stepped over a fence into someone else's backyard.​