Columbus Blog

Both Andrew Jackson and Columbus
were directly responsible for the genocide
of thousands of innocents, and Columbus is honored
with a holiday, and Jackson with his face on currency

Christopher Columbus was most definitely not a hero, unless you want to also consider Adolf Hitler a hero. Within hours of his landing at the "Indies" he described the indigenous people, the Arawak, as ignorant and said they should be good slaves. Looking no further than that, one should not be able to consider this man a hero. Even if he just had the idea of enslaving a whole race of people, he wouldn't be a real hero, but for Columbus he had more than just the idea, he actually devastated the Caribbean islands. Through forced labor, disease, rape, and straight up murder Columbus' and his men killed millions of Native Americans, on the Island of Hispaniola, killing 100% of its 250,000 inhabitants. Most of his motivation for doing so was his own self interest, he wanted to make a profit and impress the Spanish royalty with his ability to bring wealthy and slaves back to Spain. However, beyond green, he also did things out of just pure cynicism. Columbus and his men were known to have their dogs tear the natives to shreds, rape underage girls, and cut off the hands of people as punishments. The fact that Columbus day is a holiday, yet there is no Alabama Black day (the inventor of the kazoo, and killed 0 people), is absolutely insane.