"In fourteen-hundred-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue . . . "
A man who repeatedly braved the sea and the sailors on it, risked life and limb in pursuit of fortune, glory, and science, made a tremendous discovery, celebrated today. A few hundred years later, people who are his lessers in every way have made him into a villain for what he (allegedly) did to the "natives," completely overlooking the much-worse things that the "indians" did to each other.
Also overlooking the fact that, although the first people in the Americas were "white" caucasians, not "indians" and that although he was not the first explorer who landed over here, he was the first to make such an astonishing commercial success of it.
Happy Columbus Day.
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