Happy Columbus Day!!! You silly Americans.

Started by UncleRico, October 07, 2007, 12:32:11 PM

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UncleRico

Does anyone else think it's sorta silly that we celebrate Columbus Day when we know that Columbus didn't discover America?

Aren't we kind of lying to our school children? I understand that teachers are still stating that Columbus discovered America. Why is this?

I don't really care if you celebrate it, but don't close the banks and make sure I get my mail!
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Ida_Mann

I mean,,,comeon, we gotta get the orders for the gerbils to you in the mail,,,,what's this country coming to?

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the holiday is for white people,cmon rico , and i thought you were a know it all lol

VForcedave

After he "Discovered America" he went back to doing what he did best. He was a pirate and a slave trader and was arrested in the Dominican Republic and sent back to Europe in chains. He never set foot on US soil untill many years later. He actually landed the first time in the Bahamas and called the locals "Indians". He thought he was in India. Lets Roll 8)   
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MOTOCROSS MAVERICK

God bless columbus, nina, pinta and the santa maria! i work at a bank and they got me off work! lol  8)
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Quote from: MOTOCROSS MAVERICK on October 08, 2007, 04:40:09 PM
God bless columbus, nina, pinta and the santa maria! i work at a bank and they got me off work! lol  8)
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UncleRico

Quote from: MOTOCROSS MAVERICK on October 08, 2007, 04:40:09 PM
God bless columbus, nina, pinta and the santa maria! i work at a bank and they got me off work! lol  8)


Dude, you work at a bank? What's the matter, were all the good male nurse jobs taken?



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UncleRico

Quote from: MOTOCROSS MAVERICK on October 08, 2007, 04:40:09 PM
God bless columbus, nina, pinta and the santa maria! i work at a bank and they got me off work! lol  8)


"Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent," asserts American Indian activist Russell Means.
Winona LaDuke deplores "the biological, technological, and ecological invasion that began with Columbus' ill-fated voyage five hundred years ago."

The National Council of Churches declares the anniversary of Columbus "not a time for celebration" but for "reflection and repentance" in which whites must acknowledge a continuing history of "oppression, degradation, and genocide."
Historian Glenn Morris accuses Columbus of being "a murderer, a rapist, the architect of a policy of genocide that continues today."

"Could it be that the human calamity caused by the arrival of Columbus," African-American writer Ishmael Reed asks, "was a sort of dress rehearsal of what is to come as the ozone becomes more depleted, the earth warms, and the rain forests are destroyed?"

"All of us have been socialized to be racists and benefit from racism constantly," Christine Slater laments in the journal Multicultural Education. "The very locations on which our homes rest should rightfully belong to Indian nations."
Literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt alleges that Columbus "inaugurated the greatest experiment in political, economic, and cultural cannibalism in the history of the Western world."
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I sure missed some good threads, yeah Leif Ericson rolls over in his grave every Columbus day for sure!!
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