And here's your smoking gun: Columbus in blackface (Dispatch, Oct. 9, 1926)
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| An Author Friend Writes to the WSJ regarding 'Christopher Columbus' |
| 2017-10-10 |
| 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 |
| #10 You laugh, but there were crazy plans to use a seriously modified Gemini capsule for lunar exploration. See Advanced_Gemini in Wiki. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-10-10 18:26 |
| #9 I guess a conversation about why Europeans would moonshot in a Mercury capsule in order to re-establish contact with China and India is out? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-10-10 17:58 |
| #8 #3 push for a name change of Columbus, OH And here's your smoking gun: Columbus in blackface (Dispatch, Oct. 9, 1926) |
| Posted by: Hupoper White4044 2017-10-10 17:19 |
| #7 I've a pair of tens and an ax! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-10 12:28 |
| #6 If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus and all the white people who followed, who would patronize Indian ca$in0s? Why, the Vikings! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-10 12:22 |
| #5 These days the WP is becoming more and more like the Daily Worker. I only read it only for the local news... I never read WAPO but somehow I seriously doubt their coverage of local news is any better than their national and world news. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-10 10:38 |
| #4 If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus and all the white people who followed, who would patronize Indian ca$in0s? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-10 10:34 |
| #3 In the collective idiocy of the day, there will soon be a push for a name change of Columbus, OH. Do you suppose that much of the bad rap given to Columbus might be due to Black Legend bias in historical accounts? More recently, Howard Zinn has indulged in this hysterical history. Are there any movements or discoveries in history that cannot be criticized? For example, the darlings of left-wing causes such as Progressivism, Socialism, Communism and AntiFa could be criticized for excesses. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-10 06:52 |
| #2 The Aztecs like the Nazis found out that the biggest problem with genocide was body disposal. My hypothesis is the Aztec solution was "them's good eats". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-10 06:50 |
| #1 Declare him a Muslim and wait for the reactions. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2017-10-10 05:16 |