Columbus Day....The Real Story

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and supposedly "discovered" America. That was the story that they burned into our minds as children. If only children knew the real story.

1. Christopher Columbus or should I call him by his real name, Cristobal Colon, was a slavetrader in Africa before he invaded America and raped and killed hundreds to take control of the wealth of the lands. It is also noted that he started the slave trade in the Americas.

2. He never did actually discover America, he never claimed to. The indigenous people and the Afrikans were already in the western hemisphere for over 1,000 years, way before he was born.

3. Even though he praised the Indigenous people's hospitality, yet said that they had to die to take control of the land and it's wealth. Think about it, someone coming in your home and killing you and your family and claiming it as their own. Sickening, isn't it?

4. He never stepped foot on the American mainland. He landed in the Caribbean islands. It's said that he came there by mistake, he was searching for the east. Europeans did not know latitude and longitude at the time.

5. Upon arrival, he renamed the Indigenous people "Indians", thinking that he was in India. Shortly thereafter, he discovered that Afrikans had been travelling for over 1,000 years, way before he was born.

6. The significance of Cristobol Colon's voyages to the western hemisphere, is that this opened up Afrika and the Americas to mass murder, rape, destruction of entire cultures, stolen wealth of the people, and mass enslavement of Afrikans and the Indigenous people of the Americas for hundreds of years by Europeans. European profits from enslavement were upwards of 5000 percent!!

7. 300 MILLION Afrikans lost their lives during the 400+ years of European enslavement.

8. Columbus brought a philosophy of domination that persists today, the domination of other peoples, domination of women by men, domination of the enviroment, as well as domination of other beliefs.

Columbus Day should NOT be a holiday in any way, shape or form. He deserves NO holiday, NO parades, NO anything. We celebrate the murder of millions of people every October. WHAT THE FUCK?! FUCK COLUMBUS DAY!!!!