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This is a part of the story I have never heard, but then it would be very difficult to fit into a rhyme for school children. "In fourteen hundred and ninety three...Colombus became a mean S.O.B..."
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This is a part of the story I have never heard, but then it would be very difficult to fit into a rhyme for school children. "In fourteen hundred and ninety three...Colombus became a mean S.O.B..."
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Chet_Manly 8 years, 6 months ago
Forgive me for being skeptical, not to say Columbus was a swell guy and totally worth his own federal holiday, but I have to take this with some skepticism because the sole source is Howard Zinn. I know that Zinn comes from a certain perspective in his approach to history and he can sometimes simplify a subject in order to, "clean it up" if you will. Basically, he isn't perfect either. It is my experience that the truth of history lies somewhere between the squeaky clean whitewashed history and the decidedly anti-colonialist approach that Zinn brings.
This is just my $0.02. I don't hold up Columbus on a pedestal and tearing him down doesn't make my life any better either. I know atrocities existed then as they still do today. If he committed these atrocities, I confident that karma did/will reach him in that life or the next.
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daemon 8 years, 6 months ago
"It is my experience that the truth of history lies somewhere between the squeaky clean whitewashed history and the decidedly anti-colonialist approach that Zinn brings."
That is definitely a balanced perspective with which to view all reports of both the present and the past.
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BenEspen 8 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, Zinn mostly said things because he wanted to shock bourgeois sensibilities, even if he had to shade the truth a bit. This article is sixteen years old now, but it is a far better view of what Columbus did, and it points out that Las Casas knew Columbus personally, and thought well of him.
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Johngrx3 8 years, 6 months ago
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Christopher_Columbus/Christopher_Columbus_003.htm
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NLGriffin3 8 years, 6 months ago
Haha I just posted this to my Facebook. Happy Bartolome day!!
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