RSSColumbus Exposed!
Gene Lalor | October 12, 2009
He was “very, very mean,” “bossy,” an all around “bad guy.”
No, I’m not talking about your junior high gym teacher, or Jon Corzine, Phil Spector, or Roman Polanski. I’m talking about the man who discovered America in 1492, Christopher Columbus. 
That invective is just part of the Politically Correct drivel which, along with the “Umm, Umm, Umm, Barack Hussein Obama” paean to our leader’s greatness, is being drilled into the heads of impressionable kids today by teachers who have been taught to propagandize according to National Education Association standards.
Of course, the explorer from Genoa didn’t really “discover” America. It was never lost and the still un-named continent was already inhabited by native peoples who had discovered it eons before and those noble savages had been busily hunting and warring on it ever since.
After teachers get finished with them, kids come away “with a more nuanced picture of Columbus than the noble discoverer often portrayed in pop culture and legend:” http://bit.ly/4eRath
That’s saying a mouthful!
The nuances include Columbus’ failures, getting lost searching for the Indies, “the suffering of indigenous populations,” their decimation by diseases brought by future settlers, and generally making life awful for the “Indians” who preferred their ancient lifestyle and teepees to the thought of European culture.
Needless to say, the federal Department of Education immersed its grubby hands in the controversy and found that student textbooks were “inaccurate” and “demeaning.”
One teacher sought to rectify those inaccuracies and so manipulated her students that in a mock trial Columbus was found guilty by 75% of the student jurors. The charges weren’t specified but no doubt included being mean and bossy.
After all, ship captains of the fifteenth century merely had to deal with rickety vessels, rebellious crews of unreconstructed reprobates, and a flat Earth.
One would think, or naive teachers think, they should at least have been sweet and kind and maybe treated the crews with an occasional mint on their pillows.
The fact of the matter is that Christoforo Columbus did discover America for the Western World and, despite some negatives and NEA disapproval since, it was a discovery that changed the world for the better.
Was Columbus a saint? No. A humanitarian? No. A man whose accidental discovery of lands never before dreamed of that would establish the foundation for the greatest nation on the planet? Yes, he was.
One Columbus scholar expressed it in his book title as, 1492: The Year the World Began.
Happy Columbus Day!
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