8, October 2018 Columbus
Day
Today is Columbus Day -a day when Americans
should remember and honor the indigenous people of America who suffered
enormous cruelty and savagery by Columbus and his band of sailors. He should be
rebranded not as a hero but as a mass murderer.
He was a guilty
of a host of crimes including slavery and outright genocide in the wholesale
slaughter of the Indians in the New World.
He opened the
door to bands of fortune seekers who relived the Indians of their gold and
other treasures.
Columbus
violated the orders issued by Ferdinand and Isabella including a mandate that
he and the men under his command “treat the Indians very well and lovingly, and
abstain from doing them any harm.”
According to The
Guardian which obtained a copy of a report in 2006 found in a state archive in
the Spanish city of Valladolid, “Punishments included cutting off people's ears
and noses, parading women naked through the streets, and selling them into
slavery.”
“One man caught
stealing corn had his nose and ears cut off, placed in shackles, and was then
auctioned off as a slave. A woman who dared to suggest that Columbus was of
lowly birth was punished by his brother Bartolomé, who had also traveled to the
Caribbean. She was stripped naked and paraded around the colony on the back of
a mule.”
Today, let us
pay homage to our native Indians whose ancestors were treated with such
barbarity.
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