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An Author Friend Writes to the WSJ regarding 'Christopher Columbus'
Editor, Wall Street Journal:The editorial, "Christopher Columbus" (9 Oct, 2017), reminded me of the 500th Anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the New World in 1992. I asked my daughter in the second grade what she had learned. The only thing that made an impression was that he was a bad man because made slaves of Indians. There appeared to be no emphasis on his enormous achievement in knitting the world together for the first time. Nor was there any mention of the fact that Indians made slave of other Indians throughout the Americas. As to genocide, the Indians needed no lessons in that. Read about the Houses of Tragedy near Flagstaff, Arizona, where entire tribes were wiped out in the 11th century with the most hideous cruelty. the Aztecs were also pretty good at that, too. In 1487, five years before Columbus, the emperor Ahuitzol wiped out two city states and dragged 80,400 captives back to Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) where in four days they were all sacrificed by having their hearts cut out. The Aztecs like the Nazis found out that the biggest problem with genocide was body disposal. Amazingly, there was not a single European involved in that atrocity. The real killers of the vast majority of Indians were Old World diseases. They would have been brought to the Americas by the Africans, Arabs, or Chinese had they discovered the New World. That was simply an unavoidable and inevitable tragedy. Of course, these are all inconvenient facts to those whose ulterior motive is the destruction of western civilization. PS I would have submitted this to the Washington Post since I live just outside DC, but that would have been, in Sun Tzu’s words, like throwing eggs against a millstone. These days the WP is becoming more and more like the Daily Worker. I only read it only for the local news, but subscribe now to the WSJ to get serious news reporting and thoughtful editorials. The above is a response to the WSJ, with permission. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-10 |
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