Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?
My favorite historian, Eduardo Galeano once wrote – “In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.”
See link below
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html
For of the Western Hemisphere, Columbus is a criminal – akin to Hitler or Pol Pot. His name is not celebrated anywhere any where in North or South America. Can we rethink Columbus and honor the 100 million native people who died because of his coming here (not the modern day US), by accident. Do we have the courage to be honest and truthful with history? Why does the Mayor and other elected officials in New Rochelle continue to honor a murderer? Why celebrate him in our schools? We know better.