Columbus was an evil person


I haven't seen this movie yet, so I don't know how it portrays him, but columbus was an evil person. do some research outside of movies and outside or your elementary school classrooms, because they all portray him to be some sort of hero; he's not. He killed and enslaved entire populations. There are entire tribes of people that are now extinct due to his actions. And he was nowhere near the first person to "discover" new land either, he was just the first white one. There have been numerous accounts of people from Africa and other places around the globe coming here long before columbus was even born. There's a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen that deals with this and other myths we are taught in our society, check it out please.

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Leif Ericson was the first European to discover America(and he actually landed on the continent not some island in The Caribbean).
Columbus was just a pirate who got lost on his way to India and to his dying day actually thought he had found a shortcut to Asia.

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Wrong. It was either the Incas or the Aztecs who discovered America

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I think it would be fairer to say that Columbus was a product of the times in which he lived. Nothing more, nothing less.

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