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We Should Abolish Columbus Day

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Columbus Day is an American and patriotic holiday celebrated in all 50 states of the U.S since 1971, when congress passed the law. America should not continue to celebrate Columbus Day because he brought cruelty, heś been given false credit, and the legacy of the day is not as wonderful to Native Americans and African Africans. With ¨discovering” America, he also brought cruelty to the the indigenous people because he tortured, killed, and encourage his men to rape the native women. There are things that he didn't even do and he was still given credit such as discovering America. The legacy of the Columbus Day is not as remarkable to the Native Americans and African Americans because it just reminds them the cruelty that happened. Columbus Day should not be continued in America because he brought cruelty and torture while he ¨discovered¨ America. He let greyhounds be unleashed and prey on one hundred Indians. The greyhounds were used to eating wild boars, the skin would be …show more content…

Columbus didn't really discover America since there were already millions of people already living there. In the article ¨Why We Should Abolish Columbus Day¨ it says, ¨ The American Heritage Dictionary defines ¨discover¨ as ¨to be the first to find, learn of, or observe.¨ How can anyone discover a place which tens of, millions already know about?¨ There were about millions of people there, living there, and Columbus gets the credit for ¨discovering¨ America. He was also credited for having illusions about finding Asia during his voyage. This was false because he already had some knowledge of ¨new lands¨ across Atlantic. He was also not the only one to believe that the Earth was flat, there were also other Europeans believed that as well. In the book, Inventing the Flat Earth, it says that there were Europeans in Columbus´ time that actually did believe that the earth was not

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Why is a killer, slave trader and rapist honored each year? Columbus is celebrated each year and around the 500th anniversary of Columbus Day many skepticisms were brought to light about Columbus and the terror he brought to the American Indians. Should Columbus Day be abolished and was he a villain? A villain is usually very selfish person that’s purpose is to bring terror to people who are undeserving of that terror. I think columbus day should be abolished because he killed millions of people, he traded slaves, he was a rapist, he was selfish and he forcefully changed cultures but his discoveries shouldn’t be ignored or forgotten because he was important for the exploration of America and the improvement in navigation.

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Columbus continued with, “they should be good servants.” Columbus forced them to become christians and used violence against them if they refused to do so. It is said by many that Columbus was the first to believe that the world was round, but that is also untrue. People already knew that the world was round. He just set out to sail around it.

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The evidence for this is: he was violent and made slaves out of Indians, he forced the Indians to Christianity, and with all of his men, came new diseases. Due of this information, Columbus Day should not be celebrated just because of said tradition. We also shouldn't celebrate it because we are celebrating a man who, in textbooks, is portrayed as a good man.

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Furthermore, Christopher Columbus was a very greedy man that only wanted to be rich and famous. He later got arrested for his greed and immorality and taken back to Spain. Christopher Columbus day is insulting to many American Indians and many native-born Americans. Many Americans oppose Christopher Columbus day. Columbus’ expeditions set in motion the worldwide transfer of people, plants, animals, diseases, and cultures that greatly affected nearly every society on the planet.

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The history of Christopher Columbus has been a shared piece of history in the education systems. American history books and majority of cultures portray Columbus as a hero. The United States of America honors Christopher with a holiday named Columbus Day, which occurs the second Monday in October. Also, historians divide Columbus’s history in a similar way as Jesus, example: before 1492 known as pre-Columbian. The school textbooks preserve Columbus with a positive life story and don’t include all the negative events that took place.

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We should celebrate Indigenous people 's day instead of Columbus day. Christopher Columbus said false information and made many incredibley bad things. In the artiticle by “Liberty Voice” it says “addition to the controversy over the fate of the Native Americans encountered by Columbus ,there is the fact that he didn 't actually discover America. The country obviously was already populated by indigenous people who had “discovered” it before columbus arrived. Besides he didn’t even know where he was in the article it states “ He also never reached mainland North America, instead landing in the Bahamas, and later Cuba.

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When I was younger I was under the impression that Christopher Columbus was a great man and that he discovered America. We celebrate Columbus day because we honor him for “discovering America”. From this new information that I have learned today, Christopher Columbus is not the man iv have been taught about.

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Bartolome de las Casas is used by Zinn for many of the sources of the cruelty against the natives, but even Zinn admits that "his figures are exaggerations"(). However, Zinn still puts Bartolome under much less criticism than Columbus even though the priest did his share in being cruel to natives; this was most likely because he wanted to make the point that Columbus should not be so heroized. Overall, the monarchy of Europe is truly to blame for sending the greediest men with orders only to extract wealth from the New World. Whether or not America should celebrate Columbus Day is a highly debatable topic, but it should not really be celebrated or called after a relatively cruel man. Columbus just happened to be in charge of the right ship with a gamble that turned out to make him extremely successful, but he did not have anything, besides good seamanship to make him any more exciting than the average

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To begin, Columbus Day should not be a holiday due to the role he played in the fiendish treatment towards the Indigenous People of the New World. Before Columbus had ever set foot in the Americas, many footsteps had been there before him, such as John Cabot, the Vikings. He was not the first man to explore, but he was indeed the first to exploit this “New World” to Spaniards, French, British, and Dutch. However, even if Columbus was the first to bring publicity to the wonders of the New World, he was also the first to integrate cruelty towards one specific race. In Jack Weatherford's Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus, Weatherford dutifully describes how “Columbus tore children from their parents, husbands from their wives” (Weatherford

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